CROPP TO APPEAL DRUGS TEST RULING

Top jockey Lisa Cropp is continuing her battle against New Zealand
Thoroughbred Racing over a failed drugs test.

Cropp's lawyers had argued that the rules of racing, which oversaw
taking body samples from jockeys and stablehands, were invalid because
they had not been authorised by the Racing Act 2003.

In a High Court decision, Justice Pamela Andrews dismissed Cropp's
application for a review of Thoroughbred Racing's drug testing
procedures and awarded costs to the racing body.

However, Cropp's lawyer, Barry Hart, said today he would seek a Court
of Appeal ruling.

The charges relate to a routine drugs test at Te Rapa two years ago on
Monday in which Cropp tested positive to the drug methamphetamine.