Sydney trainer Sam Kavanagh says he was ambushed when his father and a senior Australian Turf Club official met him at a Sydney hotel to get him to change his evidence to Racing NSW stewards.
Sam Kavanagh is at the centre of an inquiry sparked by elevated levels of cobalt and the presence of caffeine found in Midsummer Sun after he won the Gosford Cup in January.
Matt Rudolph, ATC executive manager - racing, has been asked to show cause why he should not be penalised for his part in the meeting on March 2.
Sam Kavanagh told the hearing in front of a Racing NSW board sub-committee yesterday that his father, Melbourne trainer Mark Kavanagh and Rudolph, told him to change his evidence that he had been supplied with cobalt by Flemington Equine Clinic vet Tom Brennan.
"Matt Rudolph told me to 'take Tom out of this'," Kavanagh told the hearing. "I felt ambushed."
