A well-known Co Tipperary racehorse trainer has been found guilty of having performance-enhancing drugs and other animal remedies at his stables.
Philip Fenton, 49, from Garryduff, South Lodge, Carrick-on-Suir was found guilty on charges relating to having treatments and remedies found by Department of Agriculture officials following a search of his yard in January 2012.
Carrick District Court was told this morning that veterinary officers from the Special Investigation Unit found and seized more than 20 items when they carried out a search.
The items included prohibited steroids, including the steroid Nitrotain, a bottle of a performance-enhancing drug Ilium Stanabolic, a counterfeit medicine and drugs held without prescription.
Brendan Daly of the department told the court the items were found in a cardboard box, which had been hidden under a rug in an area beside the medicine's store.
Mr Daly said that when he asked Mr Fenton why the box had been hidden in such a way, the defendant told him it was to lessen the effects of the inspection.
Under cross-examination, Mr Daly admitted that he had not taken an exhibit sheet with him on the search; nor had he brought identifying labels and that he had brought the box of materials home with him, but had left them in a secure room at his house.
Fenton's defence accused the inspectors of breaking protocols in a totally unacceptable manner in carrying out the search.
The judge found Fenton guilty on all eight charges and fined him more than €10,000.
Mr Fenton has been fined €1,000 each on six of the eight charges, with two being taken into consideration.
The racehorse trainer was also told to pay €2,000 costs, as well as €2,200 expenses.
The total fine amounts to more than €10,000.
A representative of the Turf Club said after the guilty verdict that it will be carrying out its own investigation and will be taking the appropriate steps.
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