The point regarding the above post that really bemuses me, is that it clearly reads that Lyn's Rambler must have been given the "headache powder" between Brian House entering the kennel block to handle her for the race and heading out on to the track to parade. I didn't know them but I strongly suspect that the Houses were good people just trying to do the right thing by their bitch, albeit terribly naive but what were the stewards in the kennels doing at that time. Security and associated monitoring must have been pathetic. Why I mention this again is reflecting on events of later that year when poor old Bill Plowright (trainer of Rokoko and to my knowledge, a very kind and honest man) , was given 6 months by those same stewards regarding this incident. This related to the 4 dog match race debacle involving Zoom Top, Sammie Sparrow, Rokoko and I think Gala's Dream from Victoria when several bookmakers were either suspended or denied permission to field at Harold Park again. The stewards ought to have had a good look at themselves. Who knows what was going on in or near those kennels. Incidents like this have tended to make me not jump to conclusions about people charged with varying types of offences.
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