Brisbane greyhound trainer Claude Dacey has pleaded guilty to using prohibited substances on dogs, including an excessive amount of cobalt.
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Mr Dacey has been disqualified for nine months after facing the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission stewards on Wednesday.
This comes after analysists found prohibited substances in five samples from greyhounds when they raced in Brisbane, Capalaba and Ipswich in October and November last year.
Three positive Phenobarbitone samples were returned for the greyhounds’ Nikki Nettle, Power Service and Jeannie Dreaming and two positive cobalt samples in excess of the prescribed threshold were found in Nikki Nettle and Power Service.
Racing Queensland results showed Mr Dacey saw 12 wins during that time with his greyhounds, including six at Capalaba.
Power service had won four of the races while Nikki Nettle and Jeannie Dreaming won two of those races each.
Mr Dacey pleaded guilty to all charges and stewards disqualified him until December 12 this year.
Nikki Nettle, Power Service and Jeannie Dreaming were disqualified from their respective events
with placings amended and all prize money to be returned.
Mr Dacey has been given two weeks to transfer any registered greyhounds out of his name.
