Our horse Honor In War scratched!!

"The horse arrived in Australia and the blood swabs revealed 30 parts per million trace of the injection. This is within normal limits for the time zone. To race the elevation must not exceed 15 parts per million. The swab results today revealed 18 parts per million (Still 3 parts per million over the threshold).Despite the low level breach and the fact that the race was still 24 hours away Stewards were acting under instruction of the Racing Victoria veterinarian that factually at the time of the pre-race swab the horse was positive to a banned substance and no guarantee could be given that the horse would be beneath 15 parts per million by 8:00 am Saturday morning (Official Scratching Time) and there was no independent laboratory open that could process this swab in the limited time zones.There will be no ongoing issues with the blood swabs as at the current rate the horse will be cleared by this Sunday"

Damn it - got to Friday and allowed myself to think nothing could go wrong now. Will run next week in the McKinnon or the following week in the Emirates.