It's also worth noting that the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready-To-Run Sale at Karaka on November 16-17 of this year offered buyers a new service to enhance buyer confidence: a dual blood testing system to verify that nothing has been administered to any Lot (all horses had blood taken from them immediately after they breezed-up & buyers had the option of requesting a further blood sample to be taken at the fall of the hammer)

The blood sampling was in addition to a voluntary pre-sale x-ray repository

It's reassuring to see auction houses introduce such initiatives BEFORE a Code of Conduct is applied (as one suspects it will be).