Darren Weir’s bid to return to the training ranks has suffered a huge blow at the Victorian Racing Tribunal, and he now has just seven days to clear his pre-training property.
Darren Weir has been banned from applying for a trainer’s licence until the eve of the 2026 spring carnival.
Weir has already served a four-year disqualification for the possession of three electronic shock devices, known as jiggers, which finished in February 2023. The tribunal has given Weir seven days – until next Monday – to shut down his pre-training facilities at Trevenson Park, near Maldon. But as a disqualified person, he is banned from attending racetracks or making direct or indirect financial gain from the racing industry.in July for each of the three applications of a jigger, but ruled that the penalties were to be served concurrently.The charges were issued in September last year, stemming from the use of a jigger on racehorses Tosen Basil, Red Cardinal and Yogi at his Warrnambool stables days before the 2018 Melbourne Cup.
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