Ben & Mark Currie

truly!

Those shockwave treatments could explain why the filly broke down - numbs the area and if there are skeletal issues - well I don’t need to elaborate.

Seeing a "promising" young trainers career crumbling so publicly is incredible.

monty1 wrote: djebel wrote: Seeing a "promising" young trainers career crumbling so publicly is incredible. How is his career promising if he breaks the rules and cheats. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Ban these cheats for life.. robbing punters of their hard earned whilst lining the pockets of the bookies and seedy ‘mates’..

Bonjour wrote: linghi11 wrote: monty1 wrote: djebel wrote: Seeing a "promising" young trainers career crumbling so publicly is incredible. How is his career promising if he breaks the rules and cheats. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Only incredible thing is that they let this rubbish go on for so long! But what do you expect from people who gave a Sydney trainer no penalty for raceday treatment before a group 1 and gave a few pathetic months to his strapper instead. And therein lays one of racings great anomalies, is there such a thing as a 'protected species' alive and well in this industry?

The answer to that very question may be available mid July Bonjour

Carioca wrote: acacia alba wrote: linghi11 wrote: Those shockwave treatments could explain why the filly broke down - numbs the area and if there are skeletal issues - well I don’t need to elaborate. Thats what I wondered, when BK said their filly broke down.  Very sorry for the loss of your horse, BK.  No one here would wish that on anyone , or their horse.  But it certainly begs the question IMHO. So lingh11, similar to nerve blocking the hoof?

There’s an article about it today, it deadens the nerve - so like you cannot race on bute (although a lot of successful trainers microdose various painkillers to stay under threshold) because there is an increased risk of serious breakdowns, neither are you allowed to race for 7 days after shockwave. Bauer got away with racing after 5 days in the Cup. .

Trainer of racehorse Party Till Dawn to appeal against methamphetamine doping fine
By Elly Bradfield
Updated 4 Jan 2017, 5:29pm

Toowoomba horse trainer Ben Currie flanked by two friends
PHOTO: Trainer Ben Currie (C) has denied the meth doping allegations surrounding horse Party Till Dawn. (Facebook: Ben Currie)
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A Queensland horse trainer says he will appeal against a $9,000 penalty imposed after one of his horses tested positive to methamphetamine.

The positive sample was taken from his horse Party Till Dawn at a race meeting in Toowoomba in June last year.

The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) said the drug could have impacted the horse's health and the image of the sport.

"I think most people who understand the situation and know the story understand that we're probably going to beat the case," trainer Ben Currie told the ABC.

Owners transferred the horse to Mr Currie's stables weeks earlier from the care of Gold Coast trainer Stephen Jones.

QRIC said the only other instance of a Queensland horse testing positive for methamphetamine was when trainer Cassandra Marsh provided sufficient evidence that her horse, Island Tang, had been in contact with a habitual user of the drug in 2015.

"There's no proof that the methamphetamine has even gone through the horse's system," Mr Currie said.

He said horses broke down methamphetamine to amphetamine, and Party Till Dawn did not test positive to amphetamine.

"We're pretty confident … that we can beat the charges," he said.

Claim of sample tampering

In addition to denying the doping charge, Mr Currie claimed the horse's swab, sent to the Racing Science Centre, was tampered with.

"The security bag was breached and the bag had been opened, so we're pretty confident that we can beat the charges," he said.

Mr Currie said the matter would be reviewed internally and then taken to the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal.

He said the chances of a bigger fine were "very, very slim" and suspension was off the table.

"I'm disappointed in the size of the fine, but it's not unexpected," he said.

Ward Young, from the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses, said his group was "absolutely outraged to hear that this particular trainer has not been expelled from racing altogether".

"It is unsafe for the people who participate in horse racing, it is unethical for the horses who are subject to this, and the racing industry must restore their social licence by kicking out people who deliberately drug and dope race horses," he said.

"We believe the issue of drugging horses is more widespread than just those cases and that's why there needs to be such harsh penalties for anyone who engages in this practice."
In December, Mr Currie was also found guilty and fined $6,000 by the QRIC after his horse Tints tested positive for the banned substance boldenone in Rockhampton on April 8, 2016.

Boldenone is defined as a synthetic steroid hormone resembling testosterone in its ability to promote the growth of muscle.

He said at the time he would also appeal against that ruling.

monty1 wrote: Trainer of racehorse Party Till Dawn to appeal against methamphetamine doping fine A Queensland horse trainer says he will appeal against a $9,000 penalty imposed after one of his horses tested positive to methamphetamine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB-5XG-DbAA

BlackKnight wrote: Some owners are prepared to let the legal process take its course without pre-supposing an outcome Batman. ".

Been in that position myself BK

I supported a trainer who had all the defence and reasons as to what happened.
I liked him, trusted him and sadly, in the end, it appears he let me down
As did the stewards and the RSPCA

Can’t always blame the owners

This is actually getting ridiculous...

Cynical gelati that. Surely any support the bloke has is rapidly evaporating.

What a disgrace.