The drug bust also involved bikies and a notorious crime gang.
Blanket suppression orders mean the man cannot be identified, even though he was named this week on the Supreme Court website as being involved in the multi-million-dollar ecstasy ring.
"Detective Senior Constable Lapham asserted that the investigation had established that (Mohammed) Oueida was supplying chemicals for illicit drug manufacture to (the horse racing identity)," the Court of Appeal heard.
"He further said that Oueida and (the identity) were involved in the joint manufacture of these illicit drugs, which included ecstasy tablets."
The figure - who was once lauded as a champion - was banned in the mid-1990s over horse doping claims.
He was one of a number of people picked up by Taskforce Rossa, a joint AFP, VicPol and Australian Crime Commission probe into a major drug syndicate.
The ring allegedly sourced precursor chemicals imported by a licensed pharmacist, with the ecstasy pills then made in rural Victoria.
Police located and seized a commercial pill press with an M-shaped marking stamp and a large quantity of tablets and powders.
"The pill press, and the location at which it was found, were linked to (the horse racing identity)," the Court of Appeal heard.
Oueida is a known associate of a notorious crime family, and was once charged over a vicious home invasion in which shots were fired.
Taskforce Rossa was compromised after sensitive files on its operation were leaked.
Officials were also concerned that a tip-off from a rogue officer meant Oueida was able to find a hidden surveillance camera.
Oueida has been linked to outlaw bikie gangs.
heraldsun.com.au 17 Dec 2012
More police are involved in criminal activity than the corporate media make out.
From prostitution rings in St. Kilda, to luxury car theft rackets, and drug trade, Victoria Police's criminal activities go unnoticed under the darkness when the masses are asleep, not to exclude daylight trading.
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