The speed with which Australia's leading horse trainer was tried and banned by a quasi-judicial panel of stewards this week cuts two ways.
It is heartening that racing took less than a week to clean up the manure of cheating and cruelty from its own yard. Darren Weir will have no further use of the electric shock "jiggers" that police found in his stables in Victoria.
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