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Wodonga trainer Craig Widdison has been charged by Racing Victoria stewards after one of hius Melbourne runners returned an elevated bicarbonate reading.

Cash Crisis returned an elevated TCO2 reading in a pre-race test at Sandown in February.

The six-time winner was permitted to start in the Sandown race but Widdison has been charged with administering or causing to be administered a prohibited substance 'for the purpose of affecting the performance or behaviour of Cash Crisis'.

He also faces an alternative charge of administering a prohibited substance that produced a TCO2 level higher than the ceiling of 36 millimoles per litre of blood.

He was also charged with presenting the gelding to race with a prohibited substance.

A date is yet to be fixed for the hearing.