LARA greyhound trainer Jenny Hunt says she is “gutted” and “bewildered” after one of her chasers tested positive to meth.

Hunt had chaser Jubilea Bale test positive to amphetamine and methamphetamine in a post-race test after it won a heat of the Warragul Cup on January 17.

But the prolific trainer told the Geelong Advertiser last night that she had no idea how “a low-life addict’s drug” got into her dog’s system.

media_camera Trainer Jenny Hunt with a greyhound.

“I’m absolutely gutted. I can’t even say to what degree,” Hunt said fighting back tears.

“I’ve never ever been associated with any sort of drugs. Let alone something like ice. That’s like a low-life addict’s drug.

“To me my concern is the actual dogs. I am bewildered how that dog got something in it like that. That’s what kind of scares me.”

Hunt is the first Victorian trainer and the second Australian trainer to have a positive swab for ice.

Greyhound Racing Victoria chief executive Adam Wallish described the meth revelation as “alarming”.

“It goes without saying that it is shocking that a greyhound could return a (positive) test to such a drug. It’s difficult to imagine,’’ Wallish said.

Jubilea Bale was withdrawn from a race at Sandown last Thursday after stewards became aware of the drug test findings.

Wallish would not speculate on a possible penalty for Hunt if found guilty but said “it’s a most serious offence”.

Wallish said it would be up to stewards to decide whether “police or any other body” would be involved in the case.

Hunt has been invited to be present when stewards test the second, or B, sample in the next week or so as stewards continue their investigation.

Stewards inspected Hunt’s Lara kennels, which has about 150 dogs, on February 5.

Hunt, the daughter-in-law of disgraced trainer Graeme Bate, said she had already questioned her staff and was likely to investigate other possibilities as to how her dog tested positive.

“I’m thinking of going up to Warragul myself and having a look around what sort of things they have got in there. (Like) do they have cameras?” she said.

“I’ve asked all me employees and they all said they have nothing to do with it (ice).”

Hunt said she was “absolutely disgusted” to have a positive swab to her name.

“Any swab … I never thought I’d get a positive swab because I don’t give my dogs anything,” she said.

“I don’t do that because what happened to my step dad in the past.”

Bate was stripped of his Hall Of Fame status late last year after being disqualified for three years over five charges of administering banned substances to his greyhounds.

In December, one of Geelong’s tracks, which was named in Bate’s honour, had its name removed following his suspension.