Godolphin rocked by Al Zarooni steroids revelations

Classic-winning Godolphin trainer Mahmood Al Zarooni is to face a British Horseracing Authority disciplinary panel hearing after samples taken from 11 horses in his care in Newmarket were found to contain traces of anabolic steroids.

Al Zarooni, who won the Ladbrokes St Leger at Doncaster last year with Encke, as well as the richest race in the world, the Dubai World Cup, with Monterosso, has trained a whole host of big-race winners since joining Sheikh Mohammed’s operation and told the Godolphin website he had made a “catastrophic error”.

He said on www.godolphin.com: “I deeply regret what has happened. I have made a catastrophic error.