Profitable week for NHA.

Fines dished out to Sean Veale, Mr Kaknis , Eldin Webber, Ms Mitchley. PE big offenders this week!

17/01/2025 - RACE 1 : REF 263 – WELCOME TO NELSON MANDELA BAY WORK RIDERS MAIDEN PLATE : TURF 1200MTrainer K Mitchley was charged with a contravention of Rule 62.8, read with Rule 62.1, in that as the Trainer of SEEKING THE LIFE, she failed to give adequate riding instructions, which resulted in this gelding not being ridden on its merit, being prevented from obtaining the best possible placing. Trainer K Mitchley signed an Admission of Guilt and was fined R20 000.00 of which R10 000.00 is suspended for a period of twenty-four months on condition that she does not contravene this Rule during this period. 24/01/2025 – RACE 5 : REF 275 – RACING240 FOR RACING. FOR YOU FM 72 HANDICAP (F&M) : TURF 1400MTrainer K Mitchley was charged with a contravention of Rule 39.3 in that she failed to vaccinate GREEN FAME against African Horse Sickness in accordance with the program of vaccinations as published from time to time in the Racing Calendar. Trainer K Mitchley signed an Admission of Guilt and was fined R1000.00. 24/01/2025 – RACE 5 : REF 275 – RACING240 FOR RACING. FOR YOU FM 72 HANDICAP (F&M) : TURF 1400MTrainer K Mitchley was charged with a contravention of Rule 72.1.17, in that she misled the Stewards into believing that GREEN FAME was vaccinated when in fact this was not correct, resulting in this horse running in the race when it should not have. Trainer K Mitchley signed an admission of guilt and was fined R15 000.00. 24/01/2025 – RACE 5 : REF 275 – RACING240 FOR RACING. FOR YOU FM 72 HANDICAP (F&M) : TURF 1400MTrainer K Mitchley was charged with a contravention of Rule 72.1.19, in that she conspired to commit an act of corruption, fraudulent and dishonest practice in that she altered entries in her Veterinary Treatment Register pertaining to GREEN FAME. Trainer K Mitchley signed an admission of guilt and was fined R30 000.00 of which R5 000.00 is suspended for a period of twenty-four months on condition that she does not contravene this Rule during this period.

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....what a balls up.....trainer has got to be totally to blame.....2 jocks involved.... 2 saddles with different weights but surely with numbered saddle cloths..... if they switched saddles mistakenly in the Jockey room the clerk of scales should/would have picked up the weighing out difference....the trainer should have then put them on the right horses....but still Eldrin Webber is further cited/fined for going down to the start on the wrong horse... W(ho)TF was on the right horse as no mention of Gates being on a wrong horse too.....so this maybe a simple case of the trainer mistakenly switching saddles and he is totally to blame.....or the jocks deviously switched the numbered saddle cloths.....then the trainer is not to blame....now fining all 3 parties like they all purposely planned this f@ck @p is not at all right and there should be an appeal .....
.....could not open this thread after the 1st post yesterday....t

......but were Gates and Eldin Webber not paying detailed attention in weighing out with their incorrect saddles in the presence of a NHRA official manning the scales in this latest debacle or did they weigh out correctly and failed to notice that it was not their own saddles they were then sitting on after mounting up....and what of that official.... why was he not also named reprimanded and/or fined if wrong saddles and weights were weighed out.....I just wish that the NHRA would tone down these press releases that cast an air of suspicion of possible moves being made to possibly try and cheat when this negligence also stems from their employee's......as I believe that a camera had been installed to monitor the scale after that tell all about PE scale manipulation by a NHRA official in the past .....and I still believe that this matter has not been reported correctly.....
 

......a Kacnis stable spokesperson now claims that the problem was spotted by them before their last horse left the parade ring and then they tried to rectify.....but it would cause a major delay hence horses were scratched....so the wrong horse Webber was on only mounted in parade ring but did not leave to the start....bottom line negligence and not a so called fraudulent act....mad

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......but were Gates and Eldin Webber not paying detailed attention in weighing out with their incorrect saddles in the presence of a NHRA official manning the scales in this latest debacle or did they weigh out correctly and failed to notice that it was not their own saddles they were then sitting on after mounting up....and what of that official.... why was he not also named reprimanded and/or fined if wrong saddles and weights were weighed out.....I just wish that the NHRA would tone down these press releases that cast an air of suspicion of possible moves being made to possibly try and cheat when this negligence also stems from their employee's......as I believe that a camera had been installed to monitor the scale after that tell all about PE scale manipulation by a NHRA official in the past .....and I still believe that this matter has not been reported correctly.....

......so the SP investigated and found it was a mistake between saddle cloth numbers 6 and 9 and one jock Gates recognized that Webber had mounted his horse and had already left the parade ring....so the trainer and Webber are still on the hook to pay their  fines....huh