{"id":317585,"date":"2026-02-26T03:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317585\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T03:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:56:12","slug":"horseracing-regulator-to-pursue-luke-comer-over-alleged-e1m-in-unpaid-fines-in-doping-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317585\/","title":{"rendered":"Horseracing regulator to pursue Luke Comer over alleged \u20ac1m in unpaid fines in doping case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Horse trainer Luke Comer previously pictured at his yard in Co Wicklow. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/119537784.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Horse trainer Luke Comer previously pictured at his yard in Co Wicklow. Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ireland\u2019s horseracing regulator is to pursue billionaire Luke Comer in the High Court for over \u20ac1m in allegedly unpaid fines and costs incurred in the construction mogul\u2019s long-running disciplinary case over horse doping.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Mr Comer, who lives in Monaco, received a three-year horse-racing ban and substantial fines after 12 of his horses were found to have failed drug tests, in one of the biggest horse doping cases of its kind. Mr Comer insisted he was innocent but lost his appeal in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Horse trainer Luke Comer previously pictured at his yard in Co Wicklow. Photo: Mark Condren Ireland\u2019s horseracing regulator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":["post-317585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317585","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=317585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}