Trainer Mark Davies has been suspended for a year after a Racing NSW stewards hearing into the use of performance agent EPO this week. Davies was found guilty of possession and supply of a prohibited Erythropoiesis-stimulating agent.
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The EPO, which is a used as a performance enhancer in both humans and horses, was found at the premises of Kembla Grange trainer Mick Tubman where it had allegedly been added to a bottle of cortorta, a supplement that contains phosphorus and vitamin B12.
Police referred the matter to Racing NSW, who stood Tubman down while they carried out an investigation.
Tubman, who trained the fairytale filly Chance Bye to win the Silver Slipper and run in the Golden Slipper, denied any knowledge of the EPO, but was suspended for four months, having rented out stables to Davies.
Tubman can apply to return to training on October 28. Stewards had heard evidence Davies boasted to Tubman he had collected $12,000 from a bet on the Tubman-trained Red Henno after it won a race at Hawkesbury during Melbourne Cup week last year.
But stewards could find no record of such a large winning, insisting their own examination of betting records shows Mr Davies winning just "one twentieth" of that amount.
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