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Tonight's Off The Ball Newsround ended on a story of pee, straw, horses and banned substances

"Maybe you should read that last paragraph again!" Ger and Wooly were a little bit started by Cia...
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Tonight's Off The Ball...

Tonight's Off The Ball Newsround ended on a story of pee, straw, horses and banned substances

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20.36 24 Sep 2015


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"Maybe you should read that last paragraph again!"

Ger and Wooly were a little bit started by Cian Murtagh's last story on the Off The Ball Newsround and who could blame them.

Check it out for yourself:

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"Irish racing trainer William Treacy has been fined £1,000 by the British Horseracing Authority after one of his horses, Fethard Player tested positive for a banned substance after finishing second at a race in Aintree last April.

"At today's hearing, the panel said that they accepted Treacy's claim that the failed test was the result of a cross-contamination from his own prescribed medication.

"The trainer told the panel that he was on arthritic medication, which contains the banned substance tramadol, and that as part of his daily routine, he would visit his stables each morning after taking his medication.

"He said that the first thing that he would do each day would be to give Fethard Player an apple and that the effect that the drug had on him, was that he would often be forced to pee on the straw in the horse's stable."

Now re-read that last paragraph again as Ger made Cian do.

Listen in to that at the very end of tonight's Newsround:


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