Trainer Banned For Cobalt Positive

New South Wales, Australia-based trainer Kevin Moses has been banned for 12 months as a result of a cobalt positive returned by a runner under his care Apr. 16. Moses has not been charged with administering the cobalt, and claims he did not knowingly administer it and intends to appeal.
“I’ve never touched cobalt,” Moses told the inquiry. “Why would I hit a $7,000 horse in a [benchmark 75 race] with it?”
Moses’s wife and stable foreman Jenny Moses told the inquiry the horse in question, Felix Bay (Aus) (Song Of Tara {Aus}), had received vitamins the night before the race.
“I never read the warnings because we don’t use [cobalt],” Jenny Moses said. “I didn’t know so many products had it in them.”
Ray Murrihy, chief steward of Racing NSW, told Moses and the inquiry, “the responsibility is with you to know what is in the stable products and to read all the necessary publications. How, what, where and why has not been established and you have not been charged with administration, but a cobalt positive brings a certain amount of discredit to the industry.”
Moses has trained since January 2002 and had not previously been charged with any other offences.