FATHER and son training team of Con and Tony Karakatsanis from New South Wales have been found guilty of all charges relating to the stomach tubing of Howmuchdoyoulove me at Flemington during the Cup carnival in November.
The RAD Board will hear submissions in relation to penalty next week.
Meanwhile, in other Racing Victoria news Black Caviar and Hay List head nominations for the Newmarket Handicap.
Karakatsanis duo found guilty
The Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board today found Con and Tony Karakatsanis guilty of all charges relating to the alleged attempt to stomach tube the horse Howmuchdoyouloveme on raceday.
Con and Tony Karakatsanis have both been found guilty of a breach of AR 175(k) which reads as follows:
“The Committee of any Club or the Stewards may penalise: Any person, who has committed a breach of the Rules, or whose conduct or negligence has led or could have led to a breach of the Rules.”
Con Karakatsanis has been found guilty of one breach of AR 175(l) and Tony Karakatsanis has been found guilty of two breaches of AR 175(l) which reads as follows:
“The Committee of any Club or the Stewards may penalise: Any person who attempts to commit, or conspires with any other person to commit, or any person who connives at or is a party to another committing any breach of the Rules.”
The Board will hear submissions in relation to penalty next week on a date to be fixed.
Black Caviar Bulletin – Jan 22
With Sportingbet Park Sandown open to jumpouts for Caulfield trained horses this morning, Peter Moody took the opportunity to give Black Caviar a trip away from home, ahead of her scheduled return to racing in the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes at Flemington on February 16.
With race jockey Luke Nolen in the saddle, Black Caviar took part in a jumpout over 800 metres.
''It was a good chance to give her gallop away from Caulfield and she just had soft half mile jumpout,” Moody said. ''I'm very happy with her.”
Caviar and Hay top Newmarket list
Black Caviar and Hay List headline 65 nominations for the time-honoured $1 million Newmarket Handicap (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday, 9 March.
Recognised last week at the World Thoroughbred Rankings in London as the top two sprinters on the planet, both set metric weight carrying records in their respective Newmarket triumphs, when they carried 58kg and 58.5kg respectively, over the past two seasons.
Black Caviar aside, Peter Moody leads the way alongside Darley head trainer Peter Snowden with each boasting six Newmarket nominations.
As well as the champion mare, Moody has nominated Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes winner Moment Of Change, recent stable addition Karuta Queen and unbeaten three-year-old Office Bearer among his entries.
Glamor colt heads Guineas entries
They were the first two home in last spring’s epic Group 1 BECK Caulfield Guineas (1600m) and now star colts All Too Hard and Pierro are a chance to renew their rivalry after being among an impressive list of 76 entries for the Australian Guineas (1600m) at Flemington on 2 March.
All Too Hard, who broke Pierro’s unbeaten streak in the Caulfield Guineas and was a subsequent runner-up to Ocean Park in the Group 1 Sportingbet Cox Plate (2040m), remains in the care of Team Hawkes despite being purchased by breeding giant Vinery Stud.
The son of Casino Prince is also among the entries for the Group 1 Darley Australian Cup (2000m) and is expected to use one of these feature events during Melbourne’s Festival of Racing as a launch-pad to some of Sydney’s premier autumn races, including the Group 1 DoncasterMile (1600m).
Two-year-old Triple Crown winner Pierro has not raced since finishing third against older horses in the Cox Plate (2040m) last October and is one of five entries for trainer Gai Waterhouse who is chasing another win in the race in which she trained Al Maher to victory in 2005.
Moon chasing another Cup
Green Moon remains on track to be given his shot at history in this year's $1 million Darley Australian Cup.
Last year's Melbourne Cup winner was today among 48 entries for the 2000-metre Group 1, which will be run at Flemington on Saturday, 9 March.
The Lloyd Williams-owned import will be striving to become the first male horse to complete the Melbourne Cup-Australian Cup double in the same season since the latter settled as a weight-for-age event in 1987.
Champion mares Let's Elope (1992) and Makybe Diva (2005) are the only horses to have completed the double.
Harmonium heading to Festival
Despite having to have bone chips removed from his near knee following his second placing in the Mackinnon Stakes last November, Glass Harmonium was back at Flemington this morning and is a likely participant through the Melbourne Festival Of Racing.
''In this day and age with water walkers you can get them back much quicker than in the past,'' said Glass Harmonium's trainer Mike Moroney.
After four weeks in the paddock following the operation, Glass Harmonium had four weeks on a water walker, before four weeks working behind a trotter and has come back to Flemington in good order.
While the group one Darley Australian Cup (2000m), to be run at Flemington on March 9 comes around quickly, Moroney said the race, the final leg of the $1 million Group One Middle Distance Championship series, is the perfect event for Glass Harmonium.
G1 targets not a Sham
Danny O’Brien has confirmed that talented colt Shamexpress will be kept to sprint distances with both the Group 1 Oakleigh Plate and Newmarket Handicap on the horse’s Melbourne Festival of Racing agenda.
Formerly thought of as a possible Guineas or Derby contender, Shamexpress put the writing on the wall when he showed an impressive turn of speed to finish third behind Nechita in the Group 1 Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) on Derby Day at Flemington.
Nominated for both a 1000m three-year-old event at Moonee Valley on Friday night as well as a 0-89 handicap at Caulfield over the same distance on Saturday, O’Brien told RSN’s Shane
Anderson that the son of O’Reilly would kick off his campaign at Moonee Valley.
“We’ve worked out where he is best suited and that’s going to be around the five or six furlong mark (1000m – 1200m),” O’Brien said. “His run in the Coolmore was terrific and we’re hoping that he can bounce out on Friday night and get into one of the better sprints like the Oakleigh Plate or the Newmarket later in the autumn.”
Heat brings Seymour races forward
Race times for Thursday’s Seymour race meeting have been brought forward due to predicted extreme weather conditions.
The meeting, which was originally scheduled to commence at 1pm, will now be held from 12 midday on January 24 and the eight-race card is scheduled to conclude at 4pm.
Intervals between races have been reduced to ensure the majority of the race card is scheduled to avoid the expected hottest period of the day.
The amended race times on the Seymour card are: Race 1 – 12pm; race 2 – 12.30pm; race 3 – 1pm; race 4 – 1.35pm; race 5 - 2.10pm; race 6 - 2.45pm; race 7 - 3.20pm; race 8 – 4pm.
Lord lines up at the Valley
To have a horse that he was not initially keen to buy, having a genuine winning chance in a group two race that he was not actually targeted at, has Sea Lord's Flemington trainer Stephen Brown feeling pretty pleased.
With acceptances for the Australia Stakes (1200m), to be run at Moonee Valley on Friday night taken tomorrow morning, Sea Lord looks set to be opposed to a small field, with only eight other horses being nominated for the $220,000 race.
Brown purchased Sea Lord in a three horse package from the stables of Sydney trainer David Payne last year but the well performed Winter King was the horse that he really wanted to buy.
''I wasn't particularly interested in buying him (Sea Lord) but they threw him into the package with Winter King and another horse named Bushcraft,'' Brown said. ''I've been very happy with the way things have turned out with him.''
RACING VICTORIA NEWS BULLETIN COMPILED BY SHEENA COFFEY.
