Trainer Mark Riley's three-year ban from his profession has been reinstated after Racing Victoria won its appeal of the decision to clear the Victorian conditioner of charges for a total cardon-dioxide (TC02) overage, according to Racing.com. Riley had been handed the ban last January after a horse in his care returned a reading of 37.1 millimoles per litre of plasma (rounded up from 37.061) which, with an error margin of 1.0 applied, exceeded the legal limit of 36.
Riley appealed the charge on the grounds that the rules of racing did not allow rounding up, which was agreed by the Supreme Court; however, the Court of Appeal judges disagreed with that decision, ruling in the favour of Racing Victoria on Wednesday. Riley's ban begins Oct. 1.
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