Secret footage of disgraced Melbourne Cup-winning trainer Darren Weir shocking a horse with a jigger at his Warrnambool stables has been released to the public.

The footage released on September 5, almost seven years after it was shot from a secret camera in the rafters of Weir's stables in Warrnambool, Victoria, was relied on by police in animal cruelty prosecutions.

Weir can be seen shocking a horse with a jigger, watched by his Warrnambool stable foreman Jarrod McLean and stablehand Tyson Kermond in 2018.

The footage was used as evidence when the trio faced police charges of animal cruelty in Warrnambool Magistrates Court in December 2022. Weir and McLean, who pleaded guilty, were fined $12,000 on each of three charges, a total of $36,000 each. No convictions were recorded.

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