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Horny Harry
28-04-2002, 15:37
Riders quizzed on 'fixed' trial
28apr02
LEADING Perth jockeys were allegedly paid cash to fix a barrier trial at a
WA racing complex this week. West Australian Turf Club chief steward John
Zucal has confirmed that a number of statements have been taken from people
involved in the race, at the Lark Hill training facility, near Mandurah,
about 80km south of Perth. Racing industry sources have told The Sunday
Times that trials were being fixed to increase the value of young WA horses
being sold in the lucrative Asian racing market.
"Yes, I can confirm an investigation into a trial at Lark Hill," Zucal said.
"We're in the process of gathering some information and that's what it is at
this stage. "No hearing date has been set."
The Sunday Times has learnt that every jockey in the race was offered a cash
bribe to allow a particular horse to win and that a number of them accepted
the money.
The horse at the centre of the corrupt payments won the trial.
One allegation is that a senior jockey in the race, whom The Sunday Times
can't name for legal reasons, made the payments to the rest of the riders.
He was acting on behalf of a person with racing interests in Hong Kong.
Racing officials confirm that if a young WA-bred horse wins in barrier
trials it greatly increases its value to South-East Asian buyers.
"That's how they're sold, because the Asian market is not keen to buy horses
that have already won official races," WA Racehorse Owners' Association
spokesman John Burt said.
"The market wants horses that have the right breeding and show ability at
the trials." Most young WA colts are sold to overseas buyers. At the last horse sale, the highest price paid was $92,000.
Other racing industry sources said it was highly possible that fixed trials
could be organised to manipulate a horse's value.
"The trial result and the video of the trial are all selling tools for
agents doing big business in the Asian market," one insider said.
This latest racing industry scandal comes a week after jockey Ivo Fry and
apprentice Melissa Moir were given riding bans after Moir tested positive to
amphetamines and Fry admitted to buying the drugs for her.
"Hello Sir by Eulcase....owned by B.Hutch****'s son "Clint"
sold straight after it trialled...good luck who ever bought it.
they bought this horse as a yearling for 30 k, (its not 15 hands high), put it in the ready to run sale and wanted 60 k for it, they ran it up to 58k someone put in a genuine bid of 60k and they still kept it deciding they wanted 65k then, it trialedd a few times for another trainer and went like a "GOAT", transferred to another trainer on the beach and it went ordinary the 1st trial and Kaboom it won its trial last week...ran 2 seconds slower than any other horse on the day...
didnt know you had to try in trials! but its amazing when it says RACING it gets front page."
Homer J.
30-04-2002, 16:03
Perth barrier trial bribe claims leave HK owner mystified
ALAN AITKEN
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Clint Hutchison, the son of former Hong Kong trainer Bruce Hutchison, said yesterday he is baffled by allegations surrounding the Perth barrier trial win of a horse he part-owns and which have now become the subject of a stewards' inquiry in Western Australia.
The Perth Sunday Times alleged jockeys had been bribed to fix the result of a trial last week at the Lark Hill training facility, about 80km south of Perth, in order to boost the winner's sale price to Asia.
The trial was won by Hello Sir, of which Hutchison is listed as a part-owner, but he denied the gelding is even on the market. "I don't know where the idea came from," Hutchison said. "I still own Hello Sir and I am not even trying to sell him. I have no idea what this is all about."
According to the Sunday Times, jockeys were allegedly paid cash to fix a barrier trial and the newspaper claimed "trials are being fixed to increase the value of young WA horses being sold in the lucrative Asian racing market".
Perth chief steward John Zucal was quoted as saying: "We're in the process of gathering some information and that's what it is at this stage." An inquiry is now likely next week.
"I have had no contact from the stewards at all," said Hutchison, who is also a contributor to the South China Morning Post. "However, my father has rung John Zucal this afternoon when we heard about this and asked to be allowed to attend."
Under the rules of racing, trainers and jockeys are not under obligation to make a horse do its best in barrier trials.
The Sunday Times alleged "every jockey in the race was offered a cash bribe to allow a particular horse to win and that a number of them accepted the money. One allegation is that a senior jockey in the race made the payments to the rest of the riders. He was acting on behalf of a person with racing interests in Hong Kong".
Hutchison explained he had paid leading jockey Peter Knuckey more than the usual fee for a barrier trial, but a moderate sum of money nevertheless, as thanks for his extra work on the horse. "Peter had been with the horse when it was trained in Perth," he said. "I moved it to another trainer who is an hour's drive out of town. Peter made an extra effort to drive down several times to work and trial the horse and the standard fee for a trial is only A$15. It would have cost him that in petrol alone, so I did give him a couple of hundred Australian dollars for his trouble."
Hello Sir has now been transferred to a new stable, with a view to racing him in Melbourne. "He has been shipped across to trial at Pakenham on Monday, where I can get a better guide on whether he can measure up in the Eastern states," Hutchison said.
"If he can, he will probably race for me there. And depending on how he goes, I might sell him to somewhere in Asia or I might not."
Winfried Engelbrecht-Bresges, the Jockey Club's director of racing, said yesterday the Club had taken an interest since the report intimated Hello Sir was being sold to Asia, possibly Hong Kong.
"It does not appear that the rules of racing have been breached but we take an interest in anything linked to protecting owners. We do stress to owners, though, that barrier trials are not races and that they should treat the results of them with reservation," he said.
"There is no obligation under the rules for any jockey to try to win trials, there is no rule governing how much weight a horse might be carrying in a trial and there are no real controls on the medication that might be used, so they are not a reliable guide."
Steppin Short
30-04-2002, 19:32
surprise..surprise.... the kiwis have been doing it for years, grab a video of any trial day from NZ and you'll see for yourself. Only the Kiwis put 200/300k on them.
Or, do you think Mr Hutchinson is any more guilty of ripping asian owners off than the HKJC's ISG sale?
The local trainers seem to be rather unconcerned with what happened in Perth. The reason is that there are few horses imported from WA -- most WA horses are exported to Singapore, Malaysia, Mauritius or Macau.
That's right. No need to worry as long as the garbage doesn't get dumped in your own backyard.
Sounds as if it would be tricky selling WA horses here or elsewhere in the future after this encourgaing publicity.
I still liked the pink stockings and hair-brush fetish story better.
If as SS says the kiwis have been doing it for years, after what happened in Perth, there's also good reason to believe fixing trials is a widespread practice in other parts of Australia as well. It is very difficutl to believe that HK owners have not been affected. The trainers of course will always claim that they are too smart to be duped. After all who would admit, whether knowingly or not, they've bought the owner a horse that can't run?
Surely masun you are not suggesting ANYONE is foolish enough to buy a horse off a trial result on paper, without having seen the trial or the horse. I think anyone who would do that deserves to be ripped off. Usually the trial winner is not the best trial, anywhere in the world.
I would add to previous posts that this goes on everywhere in the known universe where people are ready to pay money for horses. NZ, Australia, the USA, the UK, Finland, Malta, Argentina...actually I know a fairy penguin that won a trial at Mawson in Antarctica if anyone knows someone with a spare $50k US. Guaranteed sure winner.
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Shapke, what I think is that if fixing trials brings no monetary returns, no one would be doing it. So if it turns out that trials had indeed been fixed, obviously some people had been duped in the process.
It must be remembered that most owners are not expert on horses and depend on trainers and agents for advice. If any of these parties are unscrupulous enough to betray their trust and use the trial results to justify the high asking prices, some hapless owners will be cheated out of their money.
whilst i know SFA about the whole process i find masun's surmising very compelling. :rolleyes: :eek: :rolleyes: :eek: :rolleyes:
Those people are only being duped by themselves.
Anyone who buys a horse simply Because It Won A Trial goes into the same box as someone in the (apocryphal?) story - responding to a newspaper ad demanding simply "Send $10", without ever knowing why they are sending it.
And if they are not expert and don't have the sense to ask someone who is then again they dupe themselves - no less than anyone does when they commit money to something about which they have no understanding and no professional advice.
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And as for trainers, well most of them - have a look down the lower end of the ladder anywhere - can only survive by cheating owners.
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In the allegation concerned, the central figure involved is Clint Hutchison, a regular contributor to SCMP, a well respected newspaper. If someone is willing to trust CH, can we say he's stupid and not willing to seek good advice? Are we therefore saying that we should regard everything that CH, Alan Aitken and Nick Pulford say with great suspicion? A healthy dose of skepticism is always a good thing, but few of us would be so extreme as to presume them to be crooks and would be quite shocked if it turns out that they are anything but trustworthy journalists.
A parallel can be drawn with the Enron scandal. People thought that accounts audited by Arthur Anderson, a company with 100 years of history, could be trusted. Of course, with hindsight, the trust was misplaced.
Now of course it could all be a misunderstanding and that CH didn't do anything that was alleged. I am using CH merely as an example of what could happen should someone of his stature decide to pull such a trick.
I haven't seen too many articles by Clint Hutchison in the SCMP in the past couple of days?
horseshoof
01-05-2002, 16:16
Daddy may be getting a few more mentions than his son when the inquiry begins.
bigbrother
01-05-2002, 22:03
Did anyone notice anything different with the SCMP tipsters today?
yeah. they actually tipped a winner !
And as Shaved mentioned, CH not there.
I agree with masun - journalsists are not to be trusted.
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I agree with masun - journalsists are not to be trusted.
did masun say that -- i thought he was trying to suggest they should be trustworthy. would you care to expound on your opinion shapke.
recently i have been receiving advise from a friend of a friend in NY re some investment funds. some weeks into these discussions i thought to ask whether he/they were receiving any 'kickback' from the funds they were recommending.
they admitted they would receive some modest fees from the funds ( in addition to the fees they were planning to charge me ).
so i asked them to define "modest". whoops turns out they are not so modest at all and not just up front fees but annual. seems to me a clear conflict of interest not so dissimilar to trainers selling horses on to their owners.
In partial agreement hobbes.
However, when trainers are making a profit out of their owners in this way, at least they are usually trying to sell them a decent horse - albeit at a higher than necessary price - since they will have to train the beast.
If trainers were banned from doing it (how I don't know, but let's look at it hypothetically) there would be more chance that independent horse dealers would be trying to unload legless dogs on owners, and overcharging them as well, since their part is done and money retrieved once the horse is sold. Their comeback is always going to be that the trainer is no good.
As for journalists, I have known too many to think they are any good at all.
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As for journalists, I have known too many to think they are any good at all.
Is that so? How sad. Who can we trust these days? Even catholic priests are embroiled in sex scandals in the US. :( :( :(
masun do you have an opinion on investment advisers and conflict of interests ??
Hobbes, investment advisers are probably a lot less trustworthy than journos. For example, take a look at following link:
http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:Bwm2DsTZ2vsC:custom.marketwatch.com /custom/esignal-com/news.asp%3Fcolumn%3DDavid%2520Callaway+merrill+lyn ch+research+scandal&hl=en
The really frightening thing is Merrill Lynch is one of the bluest of blue chip names and the US has much stricter law protecting investors than other countries and yet this is still happening.
yeah i was already well aware of that case masun. in fact there have been many articles over the last 4 yrs or so on how the big brokers never recommended a rating lower than hold.
i have never paid any attention to brokers recommendations for > 35 yrs. to do so would make me far more stupid than a prospective horse owner relying on the advice of a trainer.
blackbeauty
03-05-2002, 15:55
I thought you guys might be interested in this from racing and sports web site.
Stewards Begin Perth Trial Inquiry
Wednesday, 1 May 2002: Former Hong Kong trainer Bruce Hutchison will among the people called to an inquiry into an alleged “fixed” barrier trial in Western Australia on April 20.
Stewards have formally opened an inquiry into the allegations that riders were bribed to ensure a certain horse won a barrier trial at lark Hill to enhance its prospects of being sold to Hong Kong.
Hutchison's son Clint, a part-owner in the trial winner Hello Sir, has denied that the gelding was on the market.
Bruce Hutchison trained in Hong Kong for 23 years until the
Hong Kong Jockey Club withdrew his licence last June after failing to meet the number of winners required by the review committee in the previous 12 months.
Hutchison rode in Perth in the 1960s and trained in Melbourne before going to Hong Kong.
He now works as a bloodstock agent.
The inquiry will begin next Tuesday with WATC stewards intending to question jockeys who rode in the Hello Sir trial, several trainers and other witnesses.
Hello Sir won the trial by a length but ran the slowest time of the six 900m heats. His time was about 12 lengths slower than the fastest trial of the day.
Hello Sir was beaten by a total of 35 lengths in four previous trials at Belmont Park and Lark Hill.
Hello Sir was trained at Lark Hill by Bob McPherson but ha since been transferred to Melbourne and is due to trial at Pakenham on Monday.
Hello Sir was trained at Lark Hill by Bob McPherson but has since been transferred to Melbourne and is due to trial at Pakenham on Monday.
how many times has the horse switched trainers in the last few mths.
i will be very surprised if he trials at Pakenham. surely it would be one of the most perused trials in history. can they drug test a horse after a trial ??
rubbintug it seems you had too many drinks over lunch and not enough rubbintug -- edited twice and still got it wrong!!! :confused: :p :confused: :p :confused: :p confused.gif
rubbintug
04-05-2002, 05:22
Yes Hobbes, big dif 12 len v 12 sec.
Excessive work, maybe - certainly not lunchtime drinking.
West Australian stewards yesterday adjourned their inquiry into allegations of a fixed barrier trial at Lark Hill last month following more than five hours of testimony from witnesses, including former Hong Kong trainer Bruce Hutchison and his son Clint. Counsel advising jockey Peter Knuckey, rider of the trial winner Hello Sir, requested an adjournment to study transcripts of the hearing. No date has been set for a resumption of the inquiry.
SCMP - alan aitken
cheesebeast
09-05-2002, 03:15
I notice Clint Hutchison's charge for Sam's tailors suits has been kicked in the guts over this affair - he was leading both the quinella and trio comps prior to this messy affair.
rubbintug
09-05-2002, 05:07
Interesting that Bruce Hutchison use to train for "Sam The Tailor" and sold him his current horse INDIAN TAIPAN.
I wonder how much Indian Taipan was sold for and whether he won a trial in Aus? Now that I would like to see. (Maybe over 3000m with a few fences!)
horseshoof
10-05-2002, 18:57
Will Clit be the stand in commentator when Raphael calls the Emirates Series races?
Or will he disappear from that position?
Is there any favourite to take over if he is on the outer there?
[ May 10, 2002: Message edited by: horseshoof ]
Horny Harry
10-05-2002, 19:05
how do you reckon I would go as the stand in commentator?
depends whether you had a hardon or not. :D :D :D
Shallow Hal
10-05-2002, 19:39
Will Clit (I think you mean Clint..) fill in for Raphael ?? Well, who really cares - I don't.
Raphael being away is a blessing. He's annoying at the best of times. And have you noticed in recent weeks he's discovered a new word "alluded" and now uses it 79 times a meeting - and often in the wrong context.
Not quite as often as Mark Richards and his "quite frankly" which is, quite frankly, bloody annoying.
As for Clint's situation. The JC is always paranoid about being associated with bad publicity and this might not play in CH's favour. Sounds like the SCMP reacted that way. He didn't deserve such treatment.
horseshoof
10-05-2002, 19:43
clit...clint, doesn't matter, both are close to c...s.
Sorry couldn't help with a bit of twisted humour
[ May 10, 2002: Message edited by: horseshoof ]
Shallow Hal if it bothers you that much, try not to listen to them ( i had not noticed either of the phrases you mention ).
if the SCMP has dumped clint it seems v. unlikely the JC would be more understanding.
Yes those guys on the TV often carry on with rubbish. None more so than Raphael. Even the other 2 guys sound like they'd like to bash him. I'd be surprised if CH gets a run on the JC show.
Shallow Hal
10-05-2002, 20:01
I prefer watching the Chinese coverage live Hobbes, but always punish myself with the English version during my replay study.
Riders charged at bribe inquiry
By Robert Edwards
JOCKEY Peter Knuckey was charged and two apprentices were banned for six weeks at a stewards' inquiry yesterday into the bribery of riders in a Lark Hill barrier trial.
Stewards charged Knuckey with three counts of improper action for offering three apprentices a sum of money to influence the way they rode their horses in the second trial at Lark Hill on April 22.
Knuckey admitted he gave Perth Cup winning apprentice Neil Chapman, Tanja Bajramovic and Clint Itzstein $50 each to "stay out of the way" of his ride Hello Sir, which won the 900m trial in the slowest time of the day.
Knuckey yesterday pleaded not guilty to the charges and his lawyer Tom Percy QC was successful in obtaining an adjournment to next Thursday to allow extra time to call witnesses and prepare submissions.
Chapman and Bajramovic were suspended for an improper action for accepting $50 from Knuckey at Bunbury racetrack two days after the trial. The third apprentice Clint Itzstein was charged for the same offence but stewards granted him an adjournment to Thursday to seek legal advice.
Chairman John Zucal said stewards viewed the riders taking the cash inducement as unacceptable behaviour and improper.
"You have co-operated with stewards and told the truth and have shown remorse," Zucal said. "We accept there was no involvement in a broader conspiracy.
"And we take into account the offer came from a senior rider and that he had influence over you.
"But this is a serious matter and the image of racing has been damaged and that affects all of the participants in the racing industry."
Chapman's ban does not begin until Monday night, allowing him to retain his four rides at today's opening Belmont Park meeting and six rides at Belmont on Monday.
To add more drama, Percy bowled a curve ball when he claimed Zucal should not sit on the panel because comments he made during the opening day's hearing last week, had shown he had prejudged the case.
"Mr Zucal should disqualify himself from the hearing because of bias," Percy said. "He could only find a biased finding because he considers the matter to be improper.
"He has stated several times there has been an impropriety in his view. Other stewards who have no opinion should be dealing with the matter."
Knuckey and bloodstock agent Bruce Hutchison's statements came into conflict yesterday when a prepared statement read by Knuckey alleged Hutchison had phoned him from Hong Kong two or three days before the trial.
Hutchison, whose son Clint is a part-owner in Hello Sir, denied making the phone call. He agreed to a stewards"request to bring his telephone accounts for the three days prior to the trial to next Thursday's hearing.
Knuckey has given evidence he received a $2000 personal cheque from Hutchison several days before the trial. He said part of the money was for himself and the rest to "whack up" between the boys to stay out of the way in the trial.
Stephen Miller, who was implicated in the bribery and appeared at the first hearing, will be recalled at next week's inquiry. He was absent yesterday because of a prior commitment to be in Adelaide to ride WA hope Old Fashion in today's $300,000 Goodwood Handicap (1200m) at Morphettville.
Zucal said stewards had yet to decide whether further evidence would be sought from senior riders Alana Sansom, Michael Ryan and Jason Miller next week.
Hello Sir's trainer Bob McPherson was cleared of any wrongdoing.
May 18, 2002
rubbintug
24-05-2002, 03:01
Apparently Peter Knuckey got four months!
Interesting debutant in Race 2 at Cranbourne on Sunday - Hello Sir...
Anyone want 100-1? He is a trial winner you know
Might be another "one goer" ??
And maybe Peter Ng, the king of shrewd buyers, will end up snaring this one for one of his few remaining clients. A steal at 200K (Aussie) !
Friday, May 24, 2002 RACING HK owner in clear over cash for jockeys
NICK PULFORD, Racing Editor
Hong Kong-based owner Clint Hutchison had "no involvement" in payments to riders after a barrier trial at Lark Hill in Australia last month, the Western Australian Turf Club said yesterday at the end of a month-long inquiry into the affair.
The WATC stewards found four riders guilty of improper conduct at the inquiry, which was launched following allegations that jockey Peter Knuckey had paid other riders A$50 [HK$217] or offered to buy them a drink if they allowed him to win the trial, which was held on April 22. Knuckey was suspended for four months, while apprentices Neil Chapman, Clint Itzstein and Tanja Bajramovic were each banned for six weeks.
John Zucal, the WATC's chairman of stipendiary stewards, said Hutchison had been cleared of any part in the controversy surrounding the trial win of Hello Sir, a horse he part-owns.
"Mr Hutchison attended stewards' hearings on May 7 and May 17 and gave evidence," Zucal said. "He co-operated fully with the stewards and at the hearing on May 17 was advised that he was no longer required, as evidence revealed he did not attend the trial at Lark Hill and had no communication with riders and had no involvement in the matter that the stewards were inquiring into."
Zucal added: "Mr Hutchison voluntarily attended the stewards' inquiry, travelling to Perth from Hong Kong. He was not requested to do so by the stewards."
Hutchison, the son of former Hong Kong trainer Bruce Hutchison and a racing correspondent for the South China Morning Post, said: "I am very happy that I have been cleared of any involvement. The inquiry was very thorough and no evidence was presented to suggest I was in any way involved.
"I had no knowledge of these events until they were reported in the Australian press and I was always confident I would be cleared. I have put my life and my work in Hong Kong on hold for the past month in order to be able to attend the inquiry and defend my good name and reputation, and now I am just looking forward to getting back to Hong Kong."
The case came to light when Knuckey was seen by WATC steward Paul Criddle handing money to Chapman and Itzstein at a race meeting two days after the Lark Hill trial. Knuckey at first said he had paid the money to settle a debt but, under further examination, he then said the cash was for a favour in the barrier trial.
All the riders in the nine-horse trial testified that their horses had finished in the best possible placings. They told the stewards it was the first time they had been offered cash, but admitted that doing favours for other riders at barrier trials was not uncommon.
Knuckey is understood to be appealing against his suspension.
horsehoof suggested many posts ago that "daddy" may get more of a mention than Clint. so the WATC went after the jockeys but avoided specifically adressing who actually paid the bribe. surely they must have known prior to y'day that clint was in HK so why proceed with that farce unless they did not want to catch whoever did pay the bribe ??
horsehoof suggested many posts ago that "daddy" may get more of a mention than Clint. so the WATC went after the jockeys but avoided specifically adressing who actually paid the bribe. surely they must have known prior to y'day that clint was in HK so why proceed with that farce unless they did not want to catch whoever did pay the bribe ??
What a strange decision by the WATC. To prove any crime, one needs to provide a motive. What motive could Peter Knuckey possbily have in bribing other riders other than being asked to do so by some interested parties?
rubbintug
24-05-2002, 19:57
Four-month ban for Knuckey barrier trial
By Robert Edwards
The West Australian
LEADING jockey Peter Knuckey had his record tarnished yesterday when he was suspended for four months for bribing three apprentices in a Lark Hill barrier trial.
Another top jockey, Stephen Miller, was charged for an improper action and apprentice Clint Itzstein was suspended for six weeks for accepting $50 from Knuckey to ride This Cat Flies contrary to the owner's or trainer's instructions.
WA Turf Club chief steward John Zucal spoke of the Perth Cup winning rider's impeccable record before handing down a 12-week suspension for offering the three apprentices $50 each to "stay out of his way" in the 900m trial on April 22.
Zucal told Knuckey stewards viewed seriously any manipulation by riders of any official trial, which was contrary to the instructions given by the horse's owner or trainer.
"You have a good record and have never been disqualified," Zucal said at the WATC stewards inquiry. "You have never been involved in anything like this before and you have shown remorse.
"A trial bears a significant standing with owners and trainers, and they plan for them in their racing program.
"Any interference in this process to an owner and trainer's planning is improper.
"The racing industry has been brought into disrepute and its image tarnished. The general feeling by the public is one of wrong-doing."
Knuckey was charged on three counts of an improper action for offering apprentices Neil Chapman, Itzstein and Tanja Bajramovic $50 to influence the way they rode their horses in the trial.
Knuckey won the trial on Hello Sir and paid the apprentices their money at the Bunbury races two days later.
Knuckey said Hello Sir was being offered for sale on the Asian market and a trial win would enhance his price.
He said interference had cost Hello Sir a place at his previous Lark Hill trial on April 8. He sought help from the other riders to avoid a repeat.
Hello Sir has since been transferred to the Caulfield stables of trainer John Salanitre and is due to start at Yarra Glen at the weekend.
Stewards said there was no evidence to suggest that Bloodstock agent Bruce Hutchison, whose son Clint is a part-owner in Hello Sir, had played a role in the incident. He was dismissed without charges.
At the end of a protracted three-day hearing, Stewards charged Miller for approaching Bajramovic for the purpose of influencing the manner she rode Chaudiere in the trial.
Miller was granted an adjournment to seek legal advice and a date has yet to be set for the next hearing.
Chapman and Bajramovic received a six-week suspension last Friday on a charge of an improper action for accepting $50.
All riders pleaded not guilty.
Chapman has lodged an appeal to the Racing Penalties Appeal Tribunal. Knuckey and Itzstein said yesterday they would seek an appeal and a stay of proceedings.
Both riders will retain their mounts at Belmont Park tomorrow.
May 24, 2002
rubbintug
24-05-2002, 20:10
Stewards said there was no evidence to suggest that Bloodstock agent Bruce Hutchison, whose son Clint is a part-owner in Hello Sir, had played a role in the incident. He was dismissed without charges.
No evidence????
Knuckey has given evidence he received a $2000 personal cheque from Hutchison several days before the trial. He said part of the money was for himself and the rest to "whack up" between the boys to stay out of the way in the trial.
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