RV’s Bailey denies fabricating story

Racing Victoria chief steward Terry Bailey has denied fabricating elevated TCO2 readings as the reason trainer Danny O’Brien’s horses were held back after a 2013 race meeting.

O’Brien and Mark Kavanagh’s barrister Damian Sheales has told the trainers’ appeal against their cobalt disqualifications that Bailey should not be believed.

Bailey on Tuesday said Racing Victoria does not notify trainers about screen results for any prohibited substance because they have been unreliable in the past.

He cited an incident involving screen tests for total carbon dioxide (TCO2) levels with two O’Brien horses that were held back after a January 2013 Flemington meeting for further samples to be taken, which showed the screen tests were incorrect.

Sheales on Wednesday suggested the elevated readings were a fabrication.

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Bailey said that was not true.

“We wouldn’t have done it otherwise,” Bailey told the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.

Sheales suggested Bailey invented the two purportedly high readings once trouble blew up when a furious O’Brien rang the Racing Victoria CEO to complain.

Bailey said: “That’s not true. We wouldn’t have gone to the trouble.”

Bailey clarified his earlier evidence to say there was a single elevated reading and that O’Brien’s stable was informed, after Sheales said O’Brien only found out through the media.

Sheales has also told the hearing Bailey has lied about all matters pertaining to cobalt and what Racing Victoria knew in 2014.

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