RESERVED DECISION OF JUDICIAL COMMITTEE DATED 3 JULY 2020
[1] The Respondent, Nigel Raymond McGrath is a licensed Public Trainer and Open Driver under the Rules of New Zealand Harness Racing (HRNZ). He has been a Harness Trainer since 2000.
[2] The Respondent admitted three charges of offending deemed to be serious racing offences under Rule 505(1) of the New Zealand Rules of Harness Law. These charges are:
(a) Attempts to administer (A11684) Rule 1004(1).
On 13 March 2020 at Christchurch together with Robert George Burrows did attempt to administer to “Steel The Show” which was entered in Race 8 at the NZ Metropolitan Trotting Club’s meeting at Addington that evening, a prohibited substance by way of nasal gastric tube.
(b) Refuses to make a statement (A11685) Rule 1001(1)(i).
On 13 March 2020 at Christchurch refused to supply information by answering the questions of a Racecourse Investigator regarding the tubing equipment located in his possession and the attempted race day administration of the horse “Steel The Show.”
(c) Obstructing a Racecourse Investigator (A11686) Rule 1001(1)(j).
On 13 March 2020 at Christchurch obstructed a Racecourse Investigator by preventing him from seizing tubing equipment as evidence in the course of an investigation into a race day administration and ordering Racecourse Investigators to leave his property.
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they are pretty inept as an organisation so could be just slow or maybe they are busy with the brodster on the line