Cummings appeal dismissed
NZPA Melbourne The leading Australian trainer, Bart Cummings, will be in the turf wilderness for the next three months. Cummings, who is 51, started serving a suspension on Thursday covering that period, which the Victorian Racing Club committee confirmed after a hearing lasting almost all day. With Cummings on the sidelines until mid-July will be his Melbourne foreman, Leon Corstens, whose licence as a stablehand was withdrawn for a similar period. The pair were penalised over a positive urine sample taken from one of the Cummings’ team, Lloyd Boy, after he won the T. S, C'arlyon Cup at Caulfield on March 3. The sample returned a positive result to the antiinflammatory drug, Oxyphenbutazone, which is used as a pain killer. A stunned Cummings and Carstens, who was sitting close to him in the V.R.C. committee room, heard the vice-chairman of the club, Mr Hilton Nicholas, declare in a terse announcement that the appeals had been dismissed and the sentences would be effective immediately.
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Press, 17 April 1979, Page 22
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166Cummings appeal dismissed Press, 17 April 1979, Page 22
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