Decorated trainer Robbie Laing talks to Bruce Clark about his return to training following a tumultuous period of his life

A ruling by the Racing Victoria Board highlights the challenge former trainer Darren Weir will face to return to the sport.

He existed on a cup of tea and hope"!

The remarkable story of Australia's most unlikely winner at Royal Ascot. Queensland stock agent Shane Stafford and his 33-1 shot Cercene.

‘In racing a lot of things are hidden,’ he was quoted. ‘The real truth never surfaces. It is like a secret society. There is an unwritten rule."

"I've been to hell and back"

Or maybe just one of those “you had to be there” moments, if it can happen. And only she is the type of racehorses that can deliver one.

"I'm very lucky to be alive, that's what I do know."

As in all legal matters it seems who can produce the knockout, or t least, the most relevant approach.

Weir’s appeal says the original penalty was “altogether excessive and out of proportion" and that the “tribunal fell into jurisdictional error”.

“Wouldn’t get hot on a stove,” Cameron would observe of a possible adversary, one that might have been seen to be “bunging on a bit of side,” he’d have suggested.

“It was billed as the ultimate clash of the heavyweights, the horsey version of Ali v Frazier”.

He described it as “we didn’t bring her back to….” well I can't use the exact quote, but it had something to with spiders.

"she’s a racehorse, she loves to race, I wouldn’t be doing it if we weren’t 100 percent convinced, she was ready to do it”

It was hardly weather for a Pinot Noir. Or was it? We are talking Mike Moroney here. Sure, it was mid 30’s in the Flemington mounting...

“100 percent, I’ve got a few spare spots!" (for a Tom Kitten tattoo)

looking like a candidate from central casting for a West Point naval character, with that buzz-cut and always preened presentation

Surely this would have to be coming from some crackpot, nutbag, wacko group, operating from a back-yard garage wearing tin-foil hats

"Double the pleasure, Divide the pain!"

Why the once-a-year meeting at Burrumbeet is the perfect way to start your every new racing year.