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May 25, 2012
Whip-happy jockey fined for animal cruelty
Published: 8 Dec 09 11:46 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/23724/20091208/
Swedish star jockey Robert Bergh has been fined the equivalent of 40 days' wages for excessive use of his whip at a harness race in November 2007.
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Berg was issued with a 30-day ban from the sports' governing body in the wake of the incident at the Bergsåker racecourse in northern Sweden. The disciplinary body of Svenska Travsportens Centralförbund (STC) found that Bergh had overstepped the boundaries of the acceptable in his treatment of the racehorse.
Unlike the district court, the Court of Appeal agreed with the STC that the jockey had used excessive force when wielding the whip.
STC secretary general Ulf Hörnberg was not immediately available for comment on Tuesday's appeals court decision.
The ruling is a further blow to the sport as it awaits a verdict in the case of trainer Åke Svanstedt, who stands accused of encouraging cruelty to animals.
Prosecutors claim the highly successful trainer urged stable staff to subject a number of horses to electric shocks.
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If you have a dog, and you take out the dog lead, it know's it's going out to walk/run/play, you can see on its behaviour that it wants to go. Same with a horse.
There is no excuse for animal cruelty.
This should never have taken place in Sweden. His kind do not belong in Sweden.
Flogging it in the first place is cruelty, rating the level of cruelty is either silly or plain stupid. I wonder where eating meat (which means the animal must be killed first) will be rated