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Editor’s note: This story was updated at 10:20 a.m. Sept. 9LEWISBURG, W.Va. — A prizewinning lamb at the State Fair of West Virginia has been disqualified after reportedly testing positive for banned substances.
Fair officials confirmed that a routine drug test flagged one of the champion market lambs, triggering an investigation and the animal’s removal from competition.
“It’s standard that we’ve always drug tested our grand champion and reserve grand champion animals,” said Kelly Collins, CEO of the State Fair of West Virginia.
Grand champion and reserve grand champion animals are immediately escorted to a holding pen or kept in the arena until samples can be collected.
In more than a decade of managing the fair, Collins said she could not recall another positive test.
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