Kembla trainer Carl Poidevin has lodged an appeal against his conviction and subsequent 21-month suspension after being found guilty of injecting two horses at Kembla Grange last month.
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Poidevin was suspended from May 8, 2018 until March 8 2020 at an inquiry at which he pleaded guilty to two charges of injecting a horse during one clear day and one charge of false evidence.
An inspection of Poidevin’s Kembla Grange stables in the early hours of April 7 had found evidence of improper treatment of his stable runners Master Agar and Tony’s Princess. Master Agar was scratched from the Kembla Grange card later that day while Tony’s Princess was permitted to start after a blood test was taken by stewards.
Poidevin denied the offences at the time, but later admitted to injecting both horses with 10mls of Hemoplex, B12 Folic, Cophis B and Pre-ferrin at the inquiry.
Poidevin declined to comment when contacted by the Illawarra Mercury about the appeal.
A date for his appeal is yet to be set.
Poidevin has had a checkered history with stewards.
The Kembla trainer, then a foreman, was suspended for five months in 2009 for his role in elevated TCO2 level found in Celtic Courage prior to finishing unplaced in Australian Oaks.
He was then rubbed out for eight months in 2011 for a similar offence, involving filly Dane Empress.
