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Yeah Leggy ....4 years ....it was a bloody SHAM like the Trump case. Trump will get off for sure ....but poor Weiry had to cop 4 years out of the profession he loved and was very good at. All Trump did was pay off a 'hooker' and Biden wants him jailed ho ho ho ho .....what a farce .... an absolute disgrace. FF ....just telling the truth.

A fine? Wasn't he banned for 4 years for simply having the jiggers in his possession and will have to prove he is a fit and proper person in order to regain his licence. We should have that rule here like Racing Vic for cases such as the Pertab one.

A fine was plenty Scooby-Doo .....but hey ....each to their own so we can agree to disagree. I don't agree with 'cruelty to animals' either so please don't get me wrong.....but when owners are paying $5,000 + per month on training fee's and their horse isn't trying a 'buzz up' is worth a try as a last resort .....and if that doesn't work give the horse to a kid to ride. FF....just telling the truth.

Crook! Home detention...

Reading the last two or three items re some "bad"people in the greyhound world reminded me, curiouly enough, of a comment a prison chaplain (now deceased) whispered to me one day: "You would be surprised how many lawyers there are in prison".

Sorry but dont agree, you break the rules and treat horses so cruely and like pieces of meat you dont deserve to have a licence.

Sccoby-Doo .....all I'm saying is that they were 'common practice' years ago in the 70''s .....in fact jockeys used to carry those 'hand held' ones all the time and hit their mount on the neck with them turning for home and then throw them over the running rail on pulling up in the back straight. I remember on a country track in Perth (maybe Northam or York) the caretaker was mowing the grass down the back straight and he thought he had run over some land mines hahaha .....all the discarded jiggers got caught up in the mower blades and made a hell of a noise haha. Another time over there a jockey friend of mine told me to GET ON a horse he was riding as he was carrying a jigger and when he walked into his stall the starter said to him 'Excuse me Mr XXX ......could you please unload your horse' and he thought... 'Oh No ....Iv'e been sprung' ......but he was in the wrong stall hahaha! .....so he re-loaded .....gave it a buzz turning in and won by 3 lengths.....corrupt? YES .....breaking the rules? YES ....but in Darren Weir's case the 'Buzz up' was purely to wake the odd 'non trier' up....and as you saw it made next to no difference at all.....so all that was needed was a fine. FF .......just stating the facts.

Wall to Wall f....n Greyhounds. Please powers that be give them their own channel and take " the ribbon of light " and " the chief" common potatoe to call them. Where's Lyin Cluxon he wanted them banned.

I take it your streaming, if so does it happen when going to another race ?

When listening to Trackside in the car particularly if you have surround sound system, after a race they have this weird like thunder noise. I wondered what the f was wrong with my car before I realised what was happening, it still gives me a bit of a fright. Not sure why they do it lols

100% Paul will FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFix it........Does he still work there?

In early as going away for the weekend . Wanganui Race 3 Lantern Way Morphetville Race 3 Air assault Thanks guys .

They would also have had to contract for that turf to have been grown here using the recommended grass types for Auckland's climate etc. and then harvest and lay it. However, that would have put them months further ahead in readying the track, especially with the delays that occurred because the grass would have been growing away in the mean time. I don't think the direct seeding itself was the problem but something obviously went wrong with the process to cause the matting to develop in the root zone. Only thing I can think of is too much too shallow irrigation. They also clearly raced on it way too soon under the circumstances. I just hope they don't try and do that again if they can fix it.

Possibley to pocket the difference between the cost of the lain turf..and seeding. there's no other rationale is there?

A judge of the Kentucky Court of Appeals denied an emergency motion to allow Arkansas Derby (G1) winner Muth into the Kentucky Derby (G1) in an order described on the court's online docket after regular office hours April 24.View the full article

So why seed it instead of the tried and true way they knew worked.

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No worries will do.

So you think it's OK to use a jigger on a defenceless animal, and that if they are not trying they deserve it??? For me what he did is totally wrong if you are that desperate to win, then there is something wrong with you...I for one would never give him a horse but thats just my opinion, I think more of the horse than just being a means to an end.

The Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame Thoroughbred class of 2024 is confirmed, with Glen Todd, Starship Jubilee, Patrick Husbands, Channel Maker, Danny Vella, and Richard Grubb to be inducted this summer.View the full article

Trainer Phil D'Amato has captured two of the last three runnings of Santa Anita Park's Royal Heroine Stakes (G3T). This year, the conditioner will look to take yet another rendition when he saddles not one but three live contenders.View the full article

She has got a ride in the last race at Otaki today (La Bella Grande) for Roydon Bergerson. But has nothing on Saturday at Wanganui.

What else could he have done, don't think I've seen a more unconvincing cabinet minister as Melissa Lee ever and that's saying something, Nathan Guy as racing minister springs to mind too.

Olivier Peslier, the rider for 165 group 1 wins, will retire April 25 at 51. He won four editions of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (G1) and guided Goldikova to three Breeders' Cup Mile (G1T) victories.View the full article

Before the second race April 19 at Keeneland, FanDuel TV's Scott Hazelton stepped away from the microphone to watch a horse he co-owns, King Hazelton, prepare for his career debut.View the full article