Balmerino promoted
! NZPA-Reuter London! '! A French trainer, Guy' ! Bonnaventure. has been ! fined £250 (about SNZ47O) Iby the British Jockey Club after a doping investigation. The decision, on the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot in July,: promotes New Zealand-bred | , Balmerino to fourth place in Ithe event. j! The Jockey Club’s three-! II man disciplinary committee decided there had been •Itraces of an illegal substance .i in the urine of AcamaS. : I when it ran in the race.
But it found Bonnaventure mot guilty of deliberately ■ administering the substance j— salicylic acid, which is I similar to aspirin. The fine jis the minimum possible ‘under Jockey Club rules. I Acamas has been dis-1 [qualified from its second] ! place in the “King George,” i Britain’s richest race, and the i then-owner Mr Marcel Bous‘sac, forfeits the £37,000 ; ($NZ69.597) prixe money. [The colt which won the I French Derby, has now been [retired to stud. j The American-bred Ha- [ waiian Sound, which was ridden by Willie Shoemaker, lis promoted to second place 'and the French-trained MontI contour to third.
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