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Björn Goop would have driven Zarina Bi in V75-5 at the Örebrotravet on Saturday.
But the horse never started.
The vet petted Italian jogging trainer Alessandro Gocciadoro’s five-year-old mare after the warm-up, where a film shows a Gocciadoro employee twice whipping the horse at the entrance to the rally.
– It was an incident in the warm-up that I have never been on the jog. We asked the vet to look at the horse and he did not consider Zarina Bi to be competitive. There were marks after the unit on the heater. It does not belong to a jogging track, said national judge Pär-Olof Grannas.
“I can only apologize”
In the night between Saturday and Sunday, the Sulkysport site was in contact with Alessandro Gocciadoro, who now chooses to act.
“What happened today in Örebro is unacceptable.
I cannot and will not apologize for the behavior of the man riding the horse. He has been working in my stable since April 20, 2020 and I could never imagine that he could do such a terrible thing.
You have been dismissed from my stable with immediate effect.
I can only apologize. First of all, Zarina Bi, the owner, Mr. Biasuzzi, and everyone at the trot. “, he writes in an email.
An investigation will now begin.
“We take it very seriously, the case has been sent to Swedish Travsport for further evaluation,” Swedish Travsport chief executive Maria Croon said Saturday night.
