WEIR’S HORSES HAVE A LONG MEMORY

IT beggars belief that Racing Victoria has allowed Darren Weir’s horses to be transferred to other trainers and, worse, to continue to race, so soon after they suspended Weir for four years.

Horses have very long memories, especially if they had been hurt and we still do not know how many, if any, of those horses had been subjected to the use of jiggers.

The jiggers are supposedly used as a stimulus to improve the horse’s performance and, it has been widely implied, that it is “cruel” and most effective.

But we don’t know if any horses were, in fact, so treated as Weir has not spoken out and nor has Racing Victoria said anything other than the charges that have now been addressed.

Why should owners of those horses, maybe who have already profited immensely by that implied malpractice and thus denying legitimate owners millions of dollars in prizemoney and stud values, continue to have that opportunity with the blessing of Racing Victoria?

Weir has so far remained silent and has taken the medicine for those other charges without question, but if he has any remorse as his tears suggested (or was that self pity?), he should be forced to immediately divulge the procedures he used for all horses that were in his care and Racing Victoria take out of racing all of those that underwent any malpractice until it can be established that the horse is still not under the influence of that stimulus. Ed Dimech, Torquay