Moody guilty of cobalt administration

Trainer Peter Moody has been found guilty of administering cobalt but cleared of the most serious charge.

Victoria’s Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board on Wednesday found Moody administered or caused to be administered the prohibited substance, after Lidari returned a cobalt level double the allowed threshold.

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He was cleared of the most serious charge of administration for the purpose of affecting the horse’s performance in a race.

Moody’s defence had blamed Lidari’s elevated cobalt reading after his second in the 2014 Turnbull Stakes on a stablehand mistakenly giving the horse large doses of oral hoof treatment Availa for months.

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