{"id":202108,"date":"2025-12-20T15:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202108\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T15:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T15:29:12","slug":"oconnor-loses-gp-win-after-positive-test-for-pegasus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/202108\/","title":{"rendered":"O&#8217;Connor loses GP win after positive test for Pegasus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cian O&#8217;Connor and his mount Pegasus have been disqualified after finishing first at a Grand Prix event in Mexico after the horse tested positive for a banned substance.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor, who denies any wrongdoing, appeared on the International Equestrian Federation&#8217;s fast-track sanctions list this week, with dexamethasone detected in the sample taken from Pegasus at the CSI2 Grand Prix in San Miguel de Allende on 12 October.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-inflammatory medication is allowed out of competition but is generally banned in competition.<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Connor will serve no ban if avoiding future infractions of a similar nature.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Irish Independent, he said: &#8220;I had a totally unexplained medication violation on one of my horses while competing in Mexico over two months ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have categorically outlined to the FEI that neither I or my staff administered any such medication to the horse.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cian O&#8217;Connor and his mount Pegasus have been disqualified after finishing first at a Grand Prix event in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-202108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}