The NSW Trainers Association has launched a campaign to shake up Australia's whip rule and hand down heftier bans for Darren Weir-type offences.
Darren Weir's success brought fame and fortune to Warrnambool's sands,then it drove a wedge through the community. Can both sides make a new start?
Many trainers have already been able to boost their win tallies with former Darren Weir horses,but for the men who rode them it's a new life and a mixed bag.
Weir had trained 93 winners since the start of the racing season in August and was heading for his sixth consecutive premiership in 2019 before his stables were raided last month.
Darren Weir's Warrnambool assistant and trainer in his own right can keep training in Victoria temporarily,but his prospects in NSW aren't so bright.
It has never been more important for racing to decide what kind of future it wants,and what it is prepared to do to get there.
The former Irish jumps jockey rubbished suggestions he changed his riding style on Trap For Fools as he seeks to rebuild his career without Darren Weir.
Saturday's Caulfield meeting is the dawn of a new period in Victorian racing:it's the first big race day in years where Darren Weir will not be represented.
Ciaron Maher and David Eustace have taken over the operations of disgraced trainer Darren Weir in Ballarat,and will save the jobs of the stable staff.
Racing Victoria has not ruled out stripping disgraced but decorated trainer Darren Weir of race wins or awards in the wake of his four-year disqualification from racing.
The rise of Darren Weir was one of racing's great rags-to-riches stories,but it has ended in disgrace after he was disqualified from racing for four years.