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This kid has an impressive team backing him, at every level He’ll be fine .. he’s actually not a bad kid …. and karma will take care of those orchestrating the campaign against him

I understand he has a good chance of being leader of the National party within the next 4 or 5 years.

Put your house on Spanish Mission the place

Who needs Tommo when I’m around

Remarkably similar to CWJ…..judicial harassment Gentle rider just like CWJ This complaint through the SPCA / MPI came from a “racing person”…..same as CWJ

It was no fumble. Given the admission of the charge, and the film evidence, the Committee is comfortably satisfied that the act was intentional. It accepts the submission of Mr Oatham that the action of altering the manner in which Mr Pinn held the whip was skilful and deliberate, as was the way in which there was striking of the horse, in the way displayed on the film.

Operation Inca is entirely and totally substantiated by narcs and RIU disinformation Allegations of blood doping, betting irregularities, race fixing……but not one conviction and not one shred of evidence to support the claims of the narcs

Bloody hell, that does set a precedent. I would like to dob in all but two of the jockeys in the Bear Grylls race at Wanganui who didn't notice they had missed the boat until about the 500m mark.

I thought he was in big trouble half way through the race as well. He's a tough grinding stayer and wasn't suited to a pretty ride with a slow pace and a sprint home. Certainly not a slow run race at Caulfield. It was noticeable that Warning dropped out totally, so the two horses with the "best" runs, and best form, failed to run a place.

Yes we know that all English staying horses are jumpers with shite actions …but we didn’t know in advance that that race was going to be a canter and sprint We also know your excessively long, slightly uphill, training techniques remove all the speed from their legs That said the horse had been at Moodys for three weeks and we’d presumed he’d improved it ( wouldn’t be hard ) My view after the race, it’s over the top and needs a spell ..it’ll come back with more speed next preparation

Maybe Tommo could pop back in and share a few yarns.....

Andy McCook, greyhound trainer & form analyst for the TAB

You have a point. I was just clarifying that it was deliberate and intentional, albeit skilful. It's never been known to be done before. However, as the adjudicator pointed out, racing's social licence is on thin ice and complaints from the SPCA can not be treated lightly, especially with respect to whip use. The padded whips were clearly designed and implemented so that only the padded end made contact with the horse. And it's not a "soft rubber handle". The end is hard as.I realise that Wiremu is a handful and I hope he makes good use of the 3 months to reflect and maybe get some help if he wants to pursue a career as a jockey after that. No doubt he is an outstanding talent otherwise. Not the first or the last to go a bit off the rails with some early career success.

What was the horse forcibly restrained? Be interested to watch it.

Yes that's where the screenshot pic is from.

I don't see how he could accidentally end up with his whip upside down. Even if he did, actually using it like that seems quite malicious and intentional to me.

Reported by a “racing person” through the SPCA, who then sent it to MPI ……stipes on the day saw nothing….the connections were all happy

Very kind rider imo, these brain explosions aside. Just needs to sort those out and he's on the way. Took CWJ a few decades