Just out of interest...

[Yankiwi]

Just out of interest, can you Harness lads fill me in a bit more on what's happening here?

From what I've read on the JCA website recently, there have been two different positive swabs from your code. In both cases the horse was disqualified, yet the connections seemingly walked away unscathed.

 

http://www.jca.org.nz/non-race-day-hearings/non-raceday-inquiry-riu-v-j-j-clementson-decision-on-request-for-a-ruling-dated-5-november-2019-chair-mr-r-g-mckenzie

http://www.jca.org.nz/non-race-day-hearings/non-raceday-inquiry-riu-v-j-j-dickie-decision-on-a-request-for-a-ruling-dated-2-november-2019-chair-mr-t-utikere

 

I find it hard to believe there would be even less accountability in the harness code than there is in the greyhound code.

 

[Taku Umanga]

I think these hearings (hopefully) are just to confirm the disqualification of the horses so that stakes payments can be made - the charges against the trainers will follow (surely)?

[Happy Sunrise]

Ideal Invasion went huge that day at Mot and got me on the way to the quaddie. So there is not penalty apart from losing the race and the stakes? Maybe it is an editing error and it was left off? Seems strange to get off so freely.

Same for the Dickie runner. 

Very odd. I have no explanation.