Tasmanian trainer fined $2,000 for animal cruelty after repeatedly whipping racehorse
by Martin Agatyn from on (#6Z4PM)
Magistrate Evan Hughes said trainer Liandra Gray had already experienced a form of punishment from unwanted media attention' over the case
A Tasmanian racehorse trainer has been fined $2,000 after pleading guilty to animal cruelty for whipping a horse more than 40 times in four minutes.
Liandra Gray was found guilty of one count of causing unreasonable and unjustifiable pain to 7-year-old thoroughbred gelding The Bolt by striking him repeatedly with a padded racing whip.
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Martin Agatyn is a reporter in north-west Tasmania
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