A visit from the Compliance Assurance Team at the stables of Brian Cox on Thursday morning resulted in four horses being scratched from their engagements at Wangaratta later that day.
During a routine stable inspection, the Compliance Assurance Team confiscated a substance that Cox refused to identify.
Acting under the provisions of AR8(m), Stewards ordered the withdrawal of Shez A Tornado, Mr Coyne, Mr Barker and Ballerina Dancer from their respective races at Wangaratta.
Stewards have opened an inquiry into this incident and adjourned it to a date to be fixed.
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