Training partners in hot water
Training partners, Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, are to face a charge of conduct prejudicial to the image of racing, for substituting three horses in a televised Breakfast with The Stars, in a track gallop last week.
The Randwick based pair were granted an Adjournment by Racing New South Wales stewards yesterday, so as to seek advice after they were charged under Australian Racing Rule 175 (a)
Waterhouse and Bott were charged after stewards established three of the stables racehorses, English, Serena and Debonairly, did not conduct track work on the Randwick course proper on April 4th, as programmed at the Breakfast With The Stars function.
They were substituted by three other horses, Fabrizio, Sort After and Stampede, with three horses carrying the same set of colours as the nominated horses.
Waterhouse was critical of the charge, claiming the offence was worth only of a warning.