Four jockeys have tested positive for the drug this year but generally they are a a clean-living bunch these days
On a deliberately bare reading of the numbers for tests and positives for cocaine among jockeys this year, it could be suggested that British racing has a growing problem with the drug.
The total of four positives so far in 2019 is already a record, and all occurred in the 300 or so samples which were taken in the first seven months of the year. That is a failure rate of around 1.3%, which does not compare favourably with the one positive from 520 samples in 2018 (0.19%) or the six years from 2009 to 2014, when there was just one failure from 2,488 tests (0.04%).
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Hamilton 1.50 Burmese Blazer 2.20 Conga 2.55 Makyon (nap) 3.25 Twentysixthstreet 4.00 Art Power 4.30 Autumn Flight
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