SYDNEY trainer and former leading jockey Kevin Moses has been disqualified for 12 months after one of his horses returned an elevated level of cobalt from a pre-race swab. Felix Bay retuned the averse finding at Hawkesbury on April 16th where he finished fifth in a 2,000-metre handicap.

“How, what, where and why has not been established and he has not been charged with administration,” said Racing New South Wales chief steward Ray Murrihy. “But a cobalt positive brings a certain amount of discredit to the industry.” Moses has the right of appeal.