Australian owner handled

Australia: Trainer Michael John Day is facing jail for dishonestly obtaining financial advantage by deception after he was paid more than A$25,000 (£12,500) in training fees for a horse that did not exist.

Day was paid fees over a six-year period by a client who believed her mare, Jag One, had had a foal and was in training under Day's care. This foal did not exist, however.

Day informed his client on January 7, 2009 that a foal - to be named Miriyan - had been born, and he received monthly training fees from October 1, 2012, until January 13, 2015. He passed off another foal as ‘Miriyan' on the occasions that his client came to see her horse.

Asked by his client when Miriyan might run, Day claimed that the horse was either suffering from illness or was injured.

Custodial sentence

When Day then claimed that Miriyan had been sent to a veterinary unit in Kilmore, the client contacted the facility only to find that no horse of that name was there.

Suspicious, the client got in touch with New South Wales Harness Racing who conducted an investigation which led to the disqualification of Day from the industry for ten years.

Day was arrested on October 20, 2015, and he offered a full admission of his guilt when interviewed. He is to be sentenced on March 16, and has been warned that he faces a custodial sentence.

Day's solicitor Tim McGrath, quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald, said: "He realises now that when the vet told him there was no foal that he should have told the client."

Bloody hell !

Now you know why I keep bitching about their refs and umpires over the years...... :lol:

I wish some of our trainers here in SA could get arrested as well because there a few dishonest thieves here.

rv.racing.com/news/2016-02-08/stewards-r...a-sale-investigation

mark neisius wrote: rv.racing.com/news/2016-02-08/stewards-r...a-sale-investigation

Glyn Schofield

Charge: AR 85C


AR 85 The Principal Racing Authority (or the Stewards exercising powers delegated to them) may penalise:


(1) A licensed jockey or an apprentice jockey shall not, without the express written permission of the Principal Racing Authority that has issued his licence, have any interest in or be otherwise involved in the buying, selling, trading or leasing of thoroughbred bloodstock.


(2) A Principal Racing Authority may impose terms or conditions on a permission granted under sub-rule (1).


(3) A person who fails to comply with sub-rule (1) or with a term or condition imposed under sub-rule (2) is guilty of an offence.


(4) For the purpose of this rule thoroughbred bloodstock means:

(a) a thoroughbred horse included in the Australian Stud Book or the Stud Book of a recognised turf authority; or

(b) a thoroughbred horse registered to race by the Registrar of Racehorses or by a recognised turf authority.

The summary of the particulars is that Mr Schofield did not, at any relevant time, hold any express written permission of the RV Stewards, as contemplated by AR 85(1), when acting as agent for the Hong Kong purchaser in the buying and/or selling and/or trading of Equita.

Stewards allege that following receipt of the payment of $290,000 from the Hong Kong purchaser in respect of the sale of Equita that Mr Schofield;

a) retained $20,000 for himself, purportedly as a commission;

b) withdrew $20,000 in cash and gave that cash to Mr Stanley on about 20 May 2015 at Randwick Racecourse, purportedly as a commission; and

c) transferred the balance of $250,000 to the bank account of Mrs Stanley upon the direction of Mr Stanley.

The charges against Mr Stanley and Mr Schofield will be heard before the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary (RAD) Board on a date to be fixed.

Surely the sub-heading should read IMPLICATED!!

the fantasy wrote: Surely the sub-heading should read IMPLICATED!!

Yup my bad

Imagine looking into the Island!!!

Inquiry over sale of horse to Hong Kong
23/2/2016 at 7:08am
Racing media identity Richard Callander has admitted he kept a commission from the sale of a horse to Hong Kong but says money has since been paid to the other owners.

Callander, a presenter for former racing telecaster TVN, trainer Chris Waller’s racing manager Liam Prior and jockey Glyn Schofield appeared before Racing NSW stewards on Monday over the sale of Lil Caesar for an alleged $200,000, not $140,000 as the ownership group was told.

A part-owner of the horse, Callander transferred $129,405.20, $140,000 less his five per cent, into Waller Racing to be distributed among the other owners.

Prior told the inquiry he was paid $24,000 while Schofield received a $10,000 commission from trainer Danny Shum and another $10,000 with Callander receiving the rest.

The deal came to light when Racing Victoria stewards questioned Schofield over the sale of another unraced horse, Equita, previously trained by Brent Stanley.

Schofield arranged the sale of the colt to the Shum stable with the original owners told the price was $200,000.

RV stewards have charged both Stanley and Schofield over the sale with the jockey alleged to have received $20,000 and the trainer $70,000 from the sale of the colt for $290,000.

Schofield has told stewards in both states he was unaware of the ruled banning jockeys from involvement in such sales.

Both horses were unraced in Australia but have since gone on to win races in Hong Kong with Lil Caesar racing as Lucky Year and Equita as Dancing Flames.

No charges have yet been laid by stewards in NSW while a date for the Victorian inquiry is still to be set.

This practice is not new...... it is why the saying exists, "owners being handled"

It is amazing that the term "conflict of interest" has no ethical effect

I think Schofield was fined $70000 aus for both incidents