Irish racing’s regulator has pointed to a series of adjournments for a 15-month timeframe in completing a process which led to trainer Kieran Cotter getting fines totalling €27,500 earlier this week.
Cotter, who is based near Portarlington, Co Laois, was found guilty of “serious misconduct” by a Referrals panel chaired by Justice Raymond Groarke.
As well as the massive fines, Cotter was also ordered to pay costs of €7,500.
He was penalised on the back of a stable inspection of his premises in February of last year following a positive test for the prohibited substance cobalt from a winner he saddled in Dundalk a month before.
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- May 20, 2022
