The British Horseracing Authority (BHA) will conduct a full review of the sport’s equine anti-doping rules.

The BHA’s Board approved the decision on Monday after it received a briefing on the impact of recent decisions involving anti-doping cases in racing.

The new independent disciplinary panel, introduced in 2017, has provided impartial and independent scrutiny of the sport’s rules, which the BHA strongly supports. However, it has also called into question some of the assumptions made across the sport about the obligations on those responsible for the welfare of horses and the penalties for breaking the anti-doping rules.

As a result, the BHA has decided a review is necessary to achieve clarity for all participants, whilst maintaining the commitment to fairness and providing appropriate deterrent to wrong-doing