Lisa Cropp's been truly cropped in NZ...The champion female jockey has been disqualified for nine months and ordered to pay $NZ99,500 ($A78,848) in fines and costs after being found guilty on a drug charge...The penalty was handed down on Friday by a tribunal of racing's Judicial Control Authority (JCA) which in March found the drug charge relating to her positive test to methamphetamine at a race meeting in Te Rapa, Hamilton, in June 2005 to be proved. The disqualification will begin on June 25
Lisa Cropp's been truly cropped in NZ...The champion female jockey has been disqualified for nine months and ordered to pay $NZ99,500 ($A78,848) in fines and costs after being found guilty on a drug charge...The penalty was handed down on Friday by a tribunal of racing's Judicial Control Authority (JCA) which in March found the drug charge relating to her positive test to methamphetamine at a race meeting in Te Rapa, Hamilton, in June 2005 to be proved. The disqualification will begin on June 25 so she can make arrangements for horses being trained on her property.
What does it mean for Lisa's racing life? Well, for starters, she cannot attend a racecourse, trial tracks or a property where racehorses are trained. That means she'll have to dispose of horses trained on her property. And the fines? The monetary penalty is made up of a $NZ7,500 ($A5,942) fine and $NZ92,000 ($A72,914) in costs. The costs figure is 50 per cent of the tribunal's estimate of costs incurred.