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Five Australian trainers and three stablehands face long bans after they were found guilty of doping horses on Tuesday in a case branded "probably the biggest scandal" to ever hit the nation's thoroughbred racing industry.
The eight, from the now-defunct Aquanita Racing stable, faced 271 charges and were part of a "long-running systematic conspiracy... to obtain an unfair advantage in well over a hundred races over seven years," Victoria state's Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board (RAD) said in its judgement.
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