By: Clinton Payne In Her Time’s Group II Sydney Stakes win in 2017 is under a cloud after it was revealed the mare returned elevated levels of formaldehyde - an embalming fluid – during the Ben Smith inquiry on Tuesday. Stewards continued their inquiry into the embattled trainer’s actions at the offices of Racing NSW
By: RacingNSW.Com Racing NSW Stewards today concluded an inquiry, opened on Friday, 21 April 2017, into the analyst's finding of Cobalt, at a concentration above the level excepted by AR178C(1)(l), in a urine sample collected from the racehorse I Too Can Dance after it won Race 3, Maiden Plate 1700m at Grafton Racecourse on Monday,
By: Andrew Eddy Kembla Grange trainer Paul Murray was on Wednesday notified that he has been disqualified from training horses for three-and-a-half years after Racing NSW stewards brought an end to his long-running cobalt case. Murray, the son of former top trainer Bede, had been found guilty of five cobalt-related charges following a positive swab
By: Brent Zerafa Chris Waller's appeal against the $30,000 fine imposed as a result of one his horses testing positive to ice has been reduced to $5000 by the Racing NSW appeal panel. Waller pleaded guilty to a charge of AR178 in December last year after a post-race urine sample taken from Betcha Thinking was
By: Racing.Com Staff Warwick Farm trainer Con Karakatsanis has been hit with a third disqualification in just six months, in this instance a 12-month DQ after being found guilty of raceday treatment of Howmuchdoyouloveme. The Group 1-winning trainer was handed down the year-long ban after Racing NSW stewards found him guilty of the charge under
By: Racing.Com Staff NSW trainer Garry McCarney has become the latest trainer banned on cobalt charges after Racing NSW stewards on Wednesday disqualified him for 15 months. McCarney pleaded guilty to two charges under AR178 of having brought Southern Flight and Head To Toe to Narromine on November 12 last year for the purposes of
By: Adam Pengilly Australian racing's fairytale filly which chased Winx into third in the Cox Plate has been dragged into a drug probe after returning a positive swab to a banned substance during the spring carnival. Stewards on Monday announced Yankee Rose, which beat all bar Australia's wonder mare and Godolphin gun Hartnell in the Cox Plate, tested positive
By: Racing.Com Staff For the second time in his career, Sydney's leading trainer Chris Waller has been fined $30,000 by Racing NSW stewards after he pleaded guilty to presenting a horse to race with a banned substance in its system. At Friday's conclusion of the methamphetamine case involving Waller's horse Betcha Thinking, the trainer was
By: Adam Pengilly Racing NSW hasn't ruled out increasing the number of licensees it tests for illegal drugs after confirming a second sample from a Chris Waller-trained horse returned a positive to the drug ice. Stewards will convene a hearing on Friday into Betcha Thinking recording two post-race urine samples – from a race at Canterbury on
By: Chris Roots A horse trained by Chris Waller has returned an initial positive test to the party drug ice. The trainer of the world's best turf horse Winx could have to face a stewards' inquiry into the positive sample to methamphetamine from one horse if it is confirmed by a second sample. At two subsequent starts
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