Racing Victoria Statement on Weir Sentence – Words are Cheap – Will the Chairman Still be Talking So Tough When it Comes Time to Decide Whether to Give the Jigger Man His License Back?

Racing Victoria (RV) Chair, Tim Eddy, has issued the following statement after the Victorian Racing Tribunal (VRT) today disqualified Darren Weir, Jarrod McLean and Tyson Kermond for serious breaches of the Rules of Racing in relation to acts of cruelty on three horses through the use of a prohibited electrical device known as a ‘jigger’. […]

A Mere 2 Week Suspension For This Dangerous Act? – The SA Stewards Have to Be Kidding – And So Does Sam Payne

Take a look at this will you? It’s a 2 horse workout at Murray Bridge. They’re not racing for sheep stations, or racing it all. But watch what Sam Payne (pictured at top) does. The maniac steers his horse across into Maggie Collett’s mount, and then he reaches over and forcibly grabs her whip and […]

Hot Hot Hot

Clayton Tonkin rolled another 2yo off his production line last Friday night at Shepparton that could prove to be the number 1 juvenile in his team. Always Hot was the horse’s name. It won on debut beating the high classs 3-time winner from the Aaron Dunn stable Forty Love. That wasn’t the best of it […]

Emma Stewart Wins the Right to Tranfer Her 21 Horses to Clayton Tokin – The Decision’s the Right One – But the Law is an Arse

On the 5th of December last year trot trainer Emma Stewart was disqualified for 6 months after Stewards caught her race-day treating two horses by drenching them with something that she says was saline, but the Stewards say – quite correctly in my view – contained a perfomance enhancing substance. Stewart appealed the decision and […]

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