A little over a month after he was disqualified from the industry,Darren Weir's best horse was sold. What followed was a year-long fight over a training commission.
The police informant at the centre of Darren Weir's animal cruelty case said jockeys he spoke to did not cooperate with police.
Melbourne Cup-winning horse trainer Darren Weir and fellow trainer Jarrod McLean have fronted court charged with conspiracy and animal cruelty offences.
Jarrod McLean,the long-serving right-hand man of disgraced trainer Darren Weir,is fighting allegations he injected the blood-boosting drug EPO into one of his horses.
The criminal charges laid against horse trainer Darren Weir shine an uncomfortable light on the industry and cast a pall over the spring carnival.
Distressing video showing a horse being tormented with an electronic jigger may be a crucial piece of evidence in case against disgraced trainer and his associates.
After an investigation that lasted more than a year,detectives from Victoria Police's Sporting Integrity Intelligence Unit charged the 49-year-old with nine offences on Wednesday.
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.
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.