New insights after a day fighting over cobalt

By Patrick Bartley
Updated August 4 2015 - 10:18am, first published July 29 2015 - 9:49pm

In a move that was hardly surprising at Wednesday's show-cause hearings into why the four trainers with elevated cobalt readings should retain their licences, the lawyer for Danny O'Brien and Mark Kavanagh, Damian Sheales, labelled vet Tom Brennan a liar and effectively alleged Brennan was responsible for the cobalt positives in those two stables. It was hardly news after Brennan recanted previous evidence and last week said he sold both Kavanagh and O'Brien "vitamin bottles" for thousands of dollars. Given this change of evidence, it was simply a matter of which bus Brennan would be thrown under.

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