By: Michael Lynch & Simone Fox Koob Besieged trainer Darren Weir is facing a four-year disqualification and will not contest the charges against him after a marathon hearing on Monday night. The show-cause hearing involving Weir and his Warrnambool foreman Jarrod McLean continued for more than 10 hours at Racing Victoria headquarters on Monday as
By: Andrew Eddy Australia's leading trainer Darren Weir and fellow Ballarat trainer Simon Morrish could face charges relating to positives for anti-inflammatories. Racing Victoria stewards on Monday announced it had received a report from Racing Analytical Services Limited confirming a positive swab has been provided by the Darren Weir-trained horse, Air Guitar at the Burrumbeet Racecourse
By: Andrew Eddy Trainer Danny O'Brien said he purposefully held back information from Racing Victoria stewards in his cobalt investigation because he feared it would be misused against him. O'Brien was being questioned by RV's legal counsel Jeff Gleeson, SC, as to why he did not initially tell the stewards about a $3000 payment to
By: Adam Pengilly Expect at least one trainer to make representations to have a previous penalty quashed in the wake of three others escaping without charge from the ibuprofen mess in the past week. Gary Portelli was the first trainer in NSW to come under the microscope for a positive to the anti-inflammatory when his ageing gelding Za
By: Daryl Timms DARREN Weir and Clinton McDonald will not be charged by stewards after each had a horse test positive to the prohibited drug ibuprofen. But stewards will recommend to the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board that their horses be disqualified from the races they won on the days of the positive tests. Both
By: Daryl Timms STEWARDS are yet to determine whether Darren Weir will be charged over the positive Signoff returned after winning the Lord Stakes at Caulfield on Boxing Day. Weir is regarded as an innocent party after the stayer Âtested positive to the banned race-day drug Ibuprofen. The drug had been used on Signoff as
By: Patrick Bartley Large doses of the anti-inflammatory drug ibuprofen is the reason for the continued number of long-term positive swabs to the treatment on raceday, according to racing sources. Fairfax Media has been told that a string of race-day positives stem from the improper prescription and treatment of horses on a Victorian property. An
By Matt Stewart SIGNOFF’S part-owner Sandy McGregor has challenged racing authorities to “make a call, immediately’’ on Ibuprofen, a drug that threatens to skittle the careers of a number of high-class horses. Trainer Darren Weir on Friday scratched Signoff from a 2400m race at Caulfield on Saturday, the fourth time this campaign the stayer has
By: Matt Stewart THE Australian Trainers’ AssÂociation has urged its members to toss out their ibuprofen or suffer the unfair consequences. The list of trainers with Âinadvertent positive drug tests to the anti-inflammatory medication is growing — and the cost is significant; the horse loses the race and the trainer can be fined up to
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