MULTIPLE CHARGES AGAINST DARREN WEIR & GUILTY PLEAS
DEC. 2022 ABC REPORTS WEIR
PLEADS GUILTY TO ANIMAL ABUSE
On Wednesday (December 14, 2022), Weir, former assistant trainer Jarrod McLean and stablehand Tyson Kermond fronted the Warrnambool Magistrates’ Court where they pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges.
These charges related to the use of a jigger — a small, taser-like device — on three racehorses during the 2018 Spring Racing Carnival.
The possession and use of jiggers is banned in horseracing.
During the court mention, CCTV footage was shown of the trio training racehorses Red Cardinal, Yogi, and Tonsen Basil at Weir’s Warrnambool stables on October 30, 2018.
The cameras, which were secretly planted, captured a jigger being used on each of the horses.
In 2019, Weir was found guilty by Racing Victoria’s racing appeals and disciplinary board of possessing three outlawed electric-shock devices, and one charge of conduct prejudicial to the image, interests or welfare of racing.
The former Melbourne cup-winning trainer was subsequently handed a four-year ban from the sport which is due to end on February 6, 2023.
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