Dunlop Disqualified For One Year – Suspended For A Year – After Runner Tests Positive

Trainer Ed Dunlop has been handed a one-year disqualification-suspended for a year-after his Lucidity tested positive for a metabolite of cocaine at Brighton last year. 

The source of the positive test remains unknown and the BHA attaches no blame to the trainer. 

Given the disqualification period has been suspended, Dunlop, who has held a training licence in Britain for 30 years, can continue to send out runners. 

Lucidity will also be disqualified from the Brighton race, in which she finished second. 

The panel heard that one of Dunlop's employees admitted to using cocaine. The trainer now plans on introducing random drug testing at his Newmarket base.