Ben & Mark Currie

Currie might now take his medicine and do a deal similar to his dad. He gets two years, and dad takes over the 40 horses while Ben has a break. Plead guilty to a lesser charge and QRIC looks a bit better. Wait and see

�Gambling has brought our family closer together. We had to move to a smaller house.�

Only the ones he has a share in - and even then on a case-by-case submission.

Has been found guilty on 5 charges of presenting horses at races with illegal substances today 4/6

Banned Toowoomba trainer Ben Currie has been found guilty of five prohibited substance charges, including two that produced positives for cocaine.

Currie, who was disqualified for four years last month over text messages concerning the potential use of a jigger, will learn his fate over the latest charges later this week.

The analysts' findings were confirmed by Queensland Racing Integrity Commission stewards on Monday at a Brisbane inquiry.

Currie, as the trainer, was found guilty of bringing five thoroughbred horses to race with prohibited substances in their systems.

The QRIC said he brought the following horses to race with banned substances in their systems:

Wicked Trilogy (winner) to race on December 2, 2017 at Kilcoy with meloxicam in its system;
Shakira (winner) to race on January 28, 2018 at Toowoomba with testosterone in excess of the accepted concentration in its system;
Karaharaga (eighth placing) to race on July 6, 2018 at Rockhampton with 17-methylmorphinan-3-ol in its system;
Dreamscope (winner) to race at Toowoomba on September 16, 2018 with cocaine and benzolecgonine in its system; and
Eight Over (first) to race on February 2, 2019 at Toowoomba, with cocaine, methylecgonine and benzolecgonine in its system.

Stewards have disqualified the horses from their respective races and race placings will be amended accordingly.

Submissions from the various legal teams on penalty were due at 4pm on Tuesday, with an outcome expected later this week.

Wisdom has been chasing me but I've always outrun it!

It turns out you can catch the gingerbread man

SkyDancer wrote:

Gee those substances sound like a standard night out for some

More like a shopping list for a pro footballer

Lawyers for trainer Ben Currie say he is committed to fighting his ever-growing list of convictions through the legal process.

Currie has been disqualified for a total of four-and-a-half years after being hit with a further two years on the sidelines on Friday.

Stewards imposed the two-year disqualification after he was found guilty of 12 race day treatment charges.

In five breaches of race day treatment without permission it was found Currie caused the administration of a medication to five horses at Doomben and Gatton on March 24 last year.

In a further seven charges, it was found Currie caused the administration of a medication to seven horses on the same day they were engaged to race at Toowoomba on April 7 last year.

Also on Friday, Currie was partially successful in an internal review which reduced a four-year disqualification on two other charges involving text messages to 30 months.

The sentences are unrelated to five positive swab convictions from earlier last week with sentence on those charges likely to be given early this week.

Currie's barrister, Jim Murdoch, said the trainer was determined to fight the convictions.

"We obviously don't agree with Friday's decision to disqualify him for a further two years and will be seeking an internal review of that decision and if necessary taking the matter to QCAT," Murdoch said.

"We will also be taking the internal review decision on the text charges to QCAT."

Murdoch said he doubted QCAT would allow all appeals to be heard in one group as they involved different sets of allegations.

Wisdom has been chasing me but I've always outrun it!

Rhino wrote:

Venus wrote:

These substances are always going to swab positive. It’s as though he knew he was a goner, so just juiced them up to make $$ from the punt. They would lose prizemoney but not their betting profit.

They will need plenty of punting profits to pay the legal bills, unless of course Jim is acting pro bono.

Pro bono, don’t think so

�Gambling has brought our family closer together. We had to move to a smaller house.�

More to come no doubt

Karl and Susan Kennedy are my heroes

Personally i was hoping the animal would get jail time.

theshu

Another grub will be outed on Monday. He might have a short stint flipping Pizzas in his home town before a stint dishing up imitation grool in the conga line.

Batman wrote:

Discohips23 wrote:

Another grub will be outed on Monday. He might have a short stint flipping Pizzas in his home town before a stint dishing up imitation grool in the conga line.

Who is that ?

J.Mclean

Xavier wrote:

Apparently none of Ben’s horses are able to be transferred to his father Mark UNLESS Mark or his wife Donna are in the ownership

Although, I have noticed some of McLeans horses (owned by his partner) are now trained by M Currie

Oh the irony......

They will all be back in Warrnambool when Lindsey Smith fully takes over DKW’s old Warrnambool stables.

Ben Currie has told a waiting media pack that he has no idea why he's been arrested, after the embattled Toowoomba trainer was charged with aggravated fraud.

"I don't even know what the charges are to be honest," Currie said outside of court.

"I don't even know what it's about."

Those who know don't tell, Those who tell don't know

Hilarious!

He’s gone from pretty much mocking everyone, that’s he’s too smart for them.
To having no idea why he’s been charged.....
Max penalty 12 years.
Jobe done eh?