TAMWORTH detectives have charged a third man with race fixing offences as the Prussian Secret doping affair probe widens.
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A thirty-four-year-old Duri harness racing trainer was charged under new race-fixing laws by officers of Strike Force Trentbridge.
Detectives raided the man’s home early yesterday morning and charged him with two counts of facilitating conduct that corrupts the betting outcome of an event, as well as two charges of using corrupt conduct information to bet on an event.
He was granted conditional bail to appear at Tamworth Local Court on June 24.
The latest arrest is linked to the appearance in Tamworth Local Court yesterday of two men linked to the Prussian Secret “drenching” allegation that led to the horse being scratched from the Gunnedah Gold Cup on May 12 when it was to start a short-priced favourite in the $25,000 event.
Only a few weeks earlier it had taken out the Tamworth Gold Cup.
Trainer Cody Morgan, 27, and 47-year-old Robert Clement, a harness racing trainer, both appeared in Tamworth Local court yesterday where Clement was hit with an additional six offences relating to harness race fixing.
The charges allege race fixing in a number of harness racing events in Tamworth and Muswellbrook between December 2012 and April 2013.
Morgan pleaded not guilty to a string of charges relating to the alleged doping of Prussian Secret and has had his bail condition continued until his next court appearance tomorrow.
Clement did not enter a plea to any of his charges and has been granted continuing bail until his next court appearance on July 10.
Police had swooped on Morgan’s base in Attunga and Clement’s Bendemeer property hours before the racehorse was to travel to Gunnedah for the Pryde’s Easifeed Sky Gold Cup on May 12 and police inquiries into alleged wide-spread race fixing and corruption in NSW is continuing.