Banned Equine Surgery Prompts British Trainer’s Suspension

A horse in the trainer’s care raced after undergoing a biaxial neurectomy, a surgery banned for racehorses.
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The Disciplinary Panel of the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) has suspended trainer Ian McInnes for three years in connection with running a horse nine times after it had undergone a type of surgery that is banned for racehorses.

According to the June 21 ruling, McInnes will be suspended from June 22, 2013, until June 21, 2016, for violating three rules of racing. He was given until Monday, June 24, for his owners to remove the horses in his care and transfer to other trainers.

The panel concluded after a June 10 hearing that the horse Commando Scott, trained by McInnes for Mrs. Ann Morris, had raced nine times after undergoing a biaxial neurectomy (essentially, a permanent nerve block) to his right plantar digital nerve on July 29, 2008. Horses that have undergone that type of surgery are precluded from racing again because the de-nerving could post a risk of injury to the horse and to other horses and riders in races in which it competed.

During the BHA’s investigation, according to the disciplinary panel report, it was determined that the veterinarian who performed the neurectomy had told the trainer that it was a banned procedure for a racehorse

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Ron Mitchell is Online Managing Editor for The Blood-Horse magazine. A Lexington native, Mitchell joined The Blood-Horse after serving in editorial capacities with The Thoroughbred Record and Thoroughbred Times, specializing in business and auction aspects of the industry, and was editor-in-chief of the award-winning Horsemen’s Journal. As online managing editor, Mitchell works closely with The Blood-Horse news editor and other departments to make sure the website content is the most thorough and accurate source for all Thoroughbred news, results, videos, and data.

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