\u201cI take full responsibility for what I did. I\u2019m embarrassed about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have let down my family, my friends and my supporters and the racing industry, which I love being part of.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a stupid thing to do, it was on a non-racing day and it was several days before I rode again but I know that isn\u2019t the point.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have never ridden a horse under the influence of any substance but I also understand the rules are there for a reason.\u201d\u2028<\/p>\n
Jockeys undergo random drug testing at race and\/or trial meetings and Weatherley has not previously returned a positive.<\/p>\n
He realises he could be disqualified for months or up to a year after the positive test.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have co-operated with the RIB investigator since I was informed of the result,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know I will learn from this and want to remain in the racing industry and try to make amends.\u201d<\/p>\n
Weatherley has ridden 442 winners in New Zealand, including 25 at the elite black-type level, including a Karaka Millions 3-Year-Old win on Pin Me Up.<\/p>\n
The jockey was previously found guilty of reckless riding after causing the accident that resulted in fellow rider Taiki Yanagida dying from injuries suffered in a race fall at Cambridge in August 2022.<\/p>\n
Weatherley had his jockey\u2019s licence taken away for nine weeks for his involvement in the tragedy but hair and urine samples taken post that race day showed no signs of prohibited substances.<\/p>\n
Michael Guerin wrote his first nationally published racing articles while still in school and started writing about horse racing and the gambling industry for the Herald as a 20-year-old in 1990. He became the Herald\u2019s Racing Editor in 1995 and covers the world\u2019s biggest horse racing carnivals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI take full responsibility for what I did. I\u2019m embarrassed about it. \u201cI have let down my family,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[16489,74,682,32294,20926,124,5972,21171,3401,36305,71,3368,12815,7240,13620,111,139,69,90,5353,116821,2989,7798,31124,5843,213,11408,1361,3382,166404,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-303744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-admits","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-being","11":"tag-charge","12":"tag-cocaine","13":"tag-could","14":"tag-day","15":"tag-disqualified","16":"tag-drug","17":"tag-extended","18":"tag-from","19":"tag-guilty","20":"tag-jockey","21":"tag-lead","22":"tag-leading","23":"tag-new-zealand","24":"tag-newzealand","25":"tag-nz","26":"tag-on","27":"tag-period","28":"tag-plead","29":"tag-positive","30":"tag-race","31":"tag-riding","32":"tag-senior","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-testing","35":"tag-that","36":"tag-using","37":"tag-weatherley","38":"tag-zealand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}