Summer Championship Final nominations – 2016

View the nominations for the 2016 Summer Championship. The Summer Championship will be run on Tuesday 26th January at Caulfield racecourse.

 

Horse Sex Age Trainer
1 BASS STRAIT (NZ) G 6 Neville Parnham
2 BRITISH GENERAL G 8 Dan O’Sullivan
3 COMMANDING TIME G 8 Brendan McCarthy
4 DEL PRADO G 5 Leon & Troy Corstens
5 EXIMIUS G 6 Mick Price
6 FAST AND FREE G 7 Mick Price
7 HERO MASTER G 7 Peter Smith
8 KOROIBETE G 5 Peter G Moody
9 ORION (NZ) G 5 Peter G Moody
10 PRIX D’OR G 5 Robbie Griffiths
11 PROFIT SHARE G 4 Darren Weir
12 RADICAL G 4 Peter G Moody
13 SADAQA G 6 Mick Cerchi
14 SIEGESTOR G 5 Leon & Troy Corstens
15 TASHBEEH H 4 David Hayes & Tom Dabernig
16 TRIED AND TIRED G 6 Leon & Troy Corstens
17 TUSCAN FIRE G 9 Dan O’Sullivan
18 ZUPACHARGED G 6 Kylie Vella
19 ZUPRISING G 4 Kylie Vella

News:

Disqualified trainers Danny O’Brien and Mark Kavanagh will seek an extended stay of proceedings at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.

The trainers were on Wednesday banned for four years and three years respectively by the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board over cobalt-related offences.

They immediately appealed to VCAT and were granted a stay until 5.30pm (AEDT) on Thursday with a directions hearing to take place mid-afternoon.

Counsel for the trainers, Damian Sheales, has indicated he will be seeking to extend the stay to allow O’Brien and Kavanagh to continue training until their appeals can be heard.

O’Brien has said he is not satisfied with the way Racing Victoria has handled the cobalt investigation.

He was also disappointed his counsel was unable to cross examine Racing Victoria chief steward Terry Bailey and Dion Villella, from RV’s Compliance and Assurance Team, during the seven-day hearing into the charges against them.

“At the end of the day they’re really only holding back the tide for when we get to VCAT and everything is examined properly in a real, adult court,” O’Brien said.

O’Brien and Kavanagh, along with their former vet Tom Brennan, were found guilty in December of the administration of cobalt for the purpose of affecting the performance of a horse in a race.

Four O’Brien-trained horses and the Kavanagh-trained Magicool returned levels of cobalt above the 200 micrograms per litre of urine threshold in 2014.

Brennan has been disqualified for five years.

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