High Court considers whether to pause three-month suspension on trainer Tony Martin

Trainer Tony Martin will learn on Thursday whether or not he has successfully secured a High Court judicial review of his three-month license suspension. Photograph: Lorraine O'Sullivan/Inpho

At an original IHRB referrals panel hearing in December, Martin was fined a total of €11,000 and given a six-month licence suspension that was suspended for two years on the back of his horse, Firstman, failing a drugs test after winning at Dundalk in January of 2023. The three-month ban had been due to end on August 15th resulting in Martin being unable to have runners at the Galway festival. Among his long list of big-race successes are four victories in the prestigious Galway Hurdle.

The referrals body said it was invited by the IHRB to infer that the lidocaine was deliberately administered but concluded there had been no deliberate doping. It said on the balance of probabilities it was unable to say how Firstman came to test positive for the drug. The Martin-trained runner was at the centre of a ‘non-trier’ case at Killarney that year where penalties were successfully appealed on one part of the ‘non-trier’ rules, only for Martin to be found guilty by an IHRB appeals panel of another section of them.

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