EXCLUSIVE: A JURY has found a local horse trainer and his friend guilty of drenching 2013 Tamworth Cup winner Prussian Secret.
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Cody Glenn Morgan and Robert James Clement were found guilty in Tamworth District Court on Tuesday afternoon of engaging in conduct to corrupt the betting outcome of the Tamworth Cup in 2013.
The crown argued the pair had an agreement to obtain a financial windfall and drenched the horse just hours before the April 28 Tamworth Cup three years ago, to corrupt the betting outcome of the race.
Prussian Secret won the race.
The pair were the first to be charged under the race-fixing laws in 2013 after an undercover surveillance operation, code-named Strike Force Trentbridge, by detectives from the State Crime Command's Casino and Racing Investigation Unit.
In the first major test of the laws introduced in 2012, the jury took less than two hours to find Clement guilty on one charge and Morgan guilty on all three counts.
Morgan was found guilty of using corrupt conduct information to bet on an event, namely that he knew the horse had been treated, before he placed a $100 each-way bet on the 2013 Tamworth race.
He was also found guilty of facilitating conduct to enter into an agreement to treat Prussian Secret before the Gunnedah Cup on May 12, 2013, to corrupt the betting outcome of the race, with the intention of obtaining a financial advantage.
It follows a two week trial, where both men had argued they didn't drench Prussian Secret prior to the Tamworth race.
See the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Northern Daily Leader.