Trainer Paul Beshara gives Happy Trails a kiss after his stable star won the Emirates Stakes. PAUL Beshara maintained his innocence and again declared there was no race day treatment of Happy Trails before the Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes at Moonee Valley on September 14. Beshara fronted the Racing Appeals & Disciplinary Board in Melbourne yesterday to fight the charge of administering a treatment by way of injection against the Rules Of Racing. A verdict will now be handed down at 10am on Friday. Beshara said it was another long day. Racing Victoria's Stewards ordered the scratching after a stable visit by the Compliance Assurance Team found what they believed was a puncture mark on Happy Trails" neck. Witness Dan Williams, a foreman for Anthony Cumming where Happy Trails is stabled told the hearing that stewards made no physical examination of the horse. He said steward Dion Villella used a scanner to identify the horse and merely gave the horse a "friendly pat" after identifying it. Villella had previously told the inquiry he had examined the area around the horse's nearside jugular vein and had found no abnormality. Williams held happy Trails's head while Villella ran the identification scanner over its neck and was asked by prosecuting counsel Dr Cliff Pannam if he disputed the stewards" evidence. Are you saying the evidence given by the stewards is completely false? Dr Pannam said. Williams replied: "Yes." Beshara told the said hearing that he didn't inject horses with a needle as a result of a bad experience previously when a horse suffered an infection that inturn cost owners $400. "I made a decision at that time that I will not give a horse a needle," Beshara said. It's safer. They (veterinarians) know vet work and I know training. The good news for connections of Happy Trails is that Beshara is confident the horse hasn't been affected by the emotional roller-coaster the Morphettville trainer has endured during the spring. Despite his scratching from the Dato, Happy Trails silenced his critics with an emphatic win in the Group 1 Turnbull Stakes at Caulfield and now sits on the sixth line of betting at $17 behind superstar mare Atlantic Jewel who dominated betting. Beshara said happy Trails had enjoyed a week's "holiday" on the water walker at Fulmen Park and was primed for his Cox Plate mission on Saturday week. ""He's come back from Fulmen Park in super order,"" Beshara added. "He had a nice little holiday up there, he's come back nice and relaxed and it seems to have done him the world of good."" "He's ready to run a really strong 2040m now."" If the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board determines Beshara illegally treated Happy Trails the South Australian horseman faces a minimum of six months on the sidelines.