{"id":12502,"date":"2018-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/warning-cheating-in-horse-racing-is-rampant\/"},"modified":"2018-02-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T00:00:00","slug":"warning-cheating-in-horse-racing-is-rampant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/warning-cheating-in-horse-racing-is-rampant\/","title":{"rendered":"WARNING Cheating In Horse Racing Is Rampant"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>A champion racehorse owner says cheating is widespread following shocking revelations trainers and stable staff have been doping horses in some of Australia\u2019s biggest races.<\/h3>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/sport\/superracing\/accused-race-doping-trainers-messages-exposed\/news-story\/ae68d15a4b1c59e971b2bafaebcc5f96\" target=\"_blank\">Herald Sun<\/a>, text messages obtained by the paper allegedly reveal trainers and staff have \u201cevaded Racing Victoria\u2019s security network for years to dope horses\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"366\" width=\"650\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/horse_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Horse owner Rupert Legh has told Melbourne radio the expose was no surprise to him.<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cWhen you\u2019ve been in the industry as long as what I have, you know something has been going on for quite some time,\u201d Legh told SEN.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cYou hear a lot of rumours and innuendo, but at the end of the day you just want to bring it to an end.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cI think it\u2019s a lot wider than what we read today.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cThe only way you will bring this to an end is if you bring in some serious, serious penalties. Our punishments aren\u2019t fitting the crime.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWe just seem to be too lenient, and to stamp this out you need to get fair dinkum about it and protect all the innocent people that put millions into the industry.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I think it\u2019s a lot wider than what we read today. We just seem to be too lenient, and to stamp this out you need to get fair dinkum.\u201d Chautauqua owner Rupert Legh says stiffening penalties is the only way to rid cheating from the sport | <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nTqQn94Wj7\">https:\/\/t.co\/nTqQn94Wj7<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Whateley?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Whateley<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CKKZbLyFor\">pic.twitter.com\/CKKZbLyFor<\/a><\/p>&mdash; SEN 1116 (@SENNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SENNews\/status\/966086665667149824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A champion racehorse owner says cheating is widespread following shocking revelations trainers and stable staff have been doping horses in some of Australia\u2019s biggest races. According to the Herald Sun, text messages obtained by the paper allegedly reveal trainers and staff have \u201cevaded Racing Victoria\u2019s security network for years to dope horses\u201d. Horse owner Rupert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-12502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WARNING Cheating In Horse Racing Is Rampant - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/warning-cheating-in-horse-racing-is-rampant\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WARNING Cheating In Horse Racing Is Rampant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A champion racehorse owner says cheating is widespread following shocking revelations trainers and stable staff have been doping horses in some of Australia\u2019s biggest races. 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