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Adam Durrant fined $10,000 for raceday treatment at Caulfield
Racing Victoria stewards have fined top Perth trainer Adam Durrant $10,000 for treating Mr Moet on a raceday at an inquiry on Tuesday afternoon.
RV’s Compliance Assurance Team launched a surprise inspection of the Mornington property where Durrant has Mr Moet stable for his autumn campaign on Saturday morning.
The CAT observed Durrant approaching Mr Moet’s box with a syringe containing Carbalene, an alkalising agent, and a hand towel with the intention of administering the substance to the Group I winner just hours before the gelding was due to run in the Group II Peter Young Stakes (1800m) at Caulfield.
As Durrant had not injected the horse with the medication, Mr Moet was allowed to run in the race where he finished a narrow second to the Chris Waller-trained Foreteller.
The inquiry resumed on Tuesday where stewards charged Durrant with a breach of AR715(k), which reads "The Committee of any Club or the Stewards may penalise: Any person, who has committed a breach of the Rules, or whose conduct or negligence has led or could have led to a breach of the Rules.”
Durrant pleaded not guilty to the charges before he gave his version of events to stewards while CAT members Kane Ashby and Dion Villella gave evidence the inquiry as did RV’s head vet Dr Brian Stewart.
Durrant is considering an appeal against the decision.
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Tivers 14 Mar | Posts: 7689
You can, but you got to actually make money to pay tax................! :)
SLIPPERGOLDEN 14 Mar | Posts: 7574
I presume trainers can claim fines as tax deductions
Piston_Broke 14 Mar | Posts: 1984
Motivated Rac I am not sure what stable experience you have had, but certainly can verify that all the stables that I have worked for certainly do not administer anything race day. Hence have nothing to worry about... Hmmm Moody does/did
Fastmoney 14 Mar | Posts: 4685
Appeal is being heard on the 25th of March. Appeal withdrawn.
raconteur 05 Mar | Posts: 595
Motiv8d - fair enough - I accept that as you having worked for some very upright trainers.
TheFunkster 05 Mar | Posts: 3748
Appeal is being heard on the 25th of March. Reduced penalty is best he could hope for
motivated 05 Mar | Posts: 325
gee Sensei..you might have to start with a better understanding of what happens in stables every day and every rac morning. your quote "I think that it is reckless to have a loaded syringe filled with anything, near a horse that is due to race especially con...
JustanL 05 Mar | Posts: 354
One trains Black Caviar and one doesn't, there's nothing like everyone being treated the same under the rules now is there. From what I hear one put there hand up and said guilty, the other gave more lip than mick jagger.
TheDiva 05 Mar | Posts: 11782
Appeal is being heard on the 25th of March.
sensei 27 Feb | Posts: 98
Sorry Rac. I don't follow. Can you spell out in simple terms me for me where the stewards and I have got this one wrong or are you saying everyone does it? I will stand happily corrected. I acknowledge that the penalty is hard to reconcile in this ...