Industry calls for ‘cruel’ trainer to be named and shamed

By Katherine Ernst

THERE are growing calls from within the greyhound industry for a trainer, caught on video using a cattle prod to shock one of his dogs, to be named and shamed after harrowing vision of the incident surfaced on Friday night.

The video, recorded on a mobile phone camera, shows a trainer at The Gardens greyhound track shocking his greyhound with the cattle prod as the lure approached the boxes.

Greyhound Racing NSW (GRNSW) announced on Friday the incident, which happened in 2012, had been independently investigated and preliminary findings had been handed over to the NSW Police Force.

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