Darren Weir - Police Investigation - Thoroughbred Horse Racing and Breeding Forums

From the article:

He is also understood to be back riding and re-educating horses though he cannot be involved with preparing a horse for racing.

Horses are also agisting at his property.

though is known to retain his passion to work again training horses in some form and re-engaging in exercising this batch of horses is said to have assisted in helping mental health issues associated with the long running case.

rusty nails wrote:

So, did the penny drop for him when he read the 23rd explanation, or is he out of phone credit LOL

Haha. Bonjour would not be out of phone credit, but we need to stop getting personal here.

Sorry Rusty, but I am one of the team who HONESTLY believes that the cheats are crippling out great sport. Tell me what benefits Weir, Currie, Ryan and company actually bring to this game?

If it’s not cleaned up, the next generation will focus on sports betting where they feel it is not corrupt.

But I do love watching the boxing in here

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

Any thoroughbred being handled by a non licensed property/business should be barred from racing.

Edited by djebel - 13 May 2023 at 8:04pm

reductio ad absurdum

You add zero to any debate.

A thoroughbreds every minute should be accounted for.

We are far too lax in this country.

The fact Weir can have anything to do with potential racehorses is a blight on this industry.

Why did they pick 28 days as the cut off point ?

reductio ad absurdum

Rools are rools fella, for better or worse. But more to the point your prior post is entirely remiss given there are hundreds, indeed thousands, of entities who have businesses which assist with a thoroughbred's development: but who aren't and have no demonstrable need to be licensed persons.

But by your Rule of Thumb the horses they assist should be banned from racing. Sorry, Australia isn't a totalitarian State.

Irrelevant in this particular discussion, but certainly entirely relevant regarding his possible application to be re-licensed.

Batman wrote:

rusty nails wrote:

So, did the penny drop for him when he read the 23rd explanation, or is he out of phone credit LOL

Haha. Bonjour would not be out of phone credit, but we need to stop getting personal here.

Sorry Rusty, but I am one of the team who HONESTLY believes that the cheats are crippling out great sport. Tell me what benefits Weir, Currie, Ryan and company actually bring to this game?

If it’s not cleaned up, the next generation will focus on sports betting where they feel it is not corrupt.

But I do love watching the boxing in here

Unfortunately, people just can’t be given life, like they were in the good ol days.

Currie is a perfect example of how the legal system here stymies that.

ATM, and for the foreseeable future Weir will not be licensed, as he needs to clear the fit and proper hurdle first.(brought in “coincidentally “ literally just before he’d served his sentence)

But fools that get on here, suggesting it’s against horse welfare for him to feed and rug them, and can’t explain why,deserve to be called out for their stupidity.

Same as any fool suggesting he’ll get the jigger out 5 weeks before a horse races.

Or, fill them full of drugs to enhance their performance over a month prior.

That’s just idiocy.

And then there’s Bonjour.

I just hope his carer got him home safely this arvo…..

Rusty, plenty can happen just with agisting and breaking horses. Could slip some youngsters steroids to give them a boost in growth, can introduce them to the jigger, so that when it is applied in racing, or if they go to a stable that has certain practices, will get a small refresher before they race.

A lot of shady things go on well before horses enter race stables Ouch

Bonjour wrote:

My career happens to be Ingrid an 19 yo Swedish backpacker and she’s staying overnight.

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This is just creepy

brave_ponies wrote:

Bonjour wrote:

My career happens to be Ingrid an 19 yo Swedish backpacker and she’s staying overnight.

This is just creepy

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Or sad.

Reality just a speck in his rear vision mirror…..

Us is all the 1000s of unlicensed and unrecognised entities that work with thoroughbreds, as mentioned by SC. Many are just worker ants that feed em, float em, fix fences, pick up sh1t etc.

I do agree with you djebel but unfortunately in reality there just isn’t the accountability systems in place and there just isn’t enough workers. The struggle to get staff is real, let alone good ones. And the pay down low is atrocious.

brave_ponies wrote:

Bonjour wrote:

My career happens to be Ingrid an 19 yo Swedish backpacker and she’s staying overnight.

This is just creepy

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Then sadly you have no sense of humour or irony, Boomer humour......through to the keeper.