Glynncrosschris
We don’t want to think about her last hour, walking nervously with a stranger in the pitch black, away from her third home in a week. Or her frantic struggle to surface in freezing Beverley Beck as he walked away.
We know who she was now. Took a bit of doing. She wasn’t very big, 28 kgs soaking wet. She was blue, three years old, exquisite and with her colour would have been snapped up. Been the apple of someone’s eye perhaps. A reason to come home to.
Her trainer has been suspended. He didn’t do it, just got rid to someone, who again got rid to someone else, 48 hours later!!! He’s been in touch, the GBGB want to know the whereabouts of some thirty dogs still registered in his name. Can’t seem to account for them you see. No records, no names, no pack drill. He had the audacity to praise us for our work, full of admiration apparently. As for his current dogs, they now run under another trainers licence with him as the owner. Christ almighty.
Eight of his dogs went through our kennels in the last couple of years alone. Her trainer didn’t bring them in, they came via a flapping track, mercifully now closed. So to the owners of Leigh, Luna, Stronsay, Effie, Karah, Kala, Nancy and Aggie, grab your dogs close and give them a hug. Then do it again, harder. They could so easily have suffered her fate.
GBGB calendar 21st October 2022
1 Kinsley Stadium: Professional
Trainer Mr Jeff Scott
The Disciplinary Committee
considered the report of a Local
Inquiry by the Stipendiary Steward on
the 1 August 2022 into the death of
a greyhound GLYNNSCROSSCHRIS
which was owned and trained by
professional greyhound trainer Jeff
Scott (who is attached to Kinsley
Stadium) allegedly in breach of Rules
18, 152 (i) & (ii) and 174 (vi) of the
GBGB Rules of Racing regarding the
re-homing of the dog
Jeff Scott was in attendance by
video link. Phillip Law, Director of
Regulation GBGB and Simon Storey,
Stipendiary Steward and John
Curran, Authorised Representative
of Kinsley Stadium were also in
attendance by video link.
The Committee noted that it was
necessary to make accommodation
to ensure that Mr Scott had a
complete understanding of the
documents and proceedings and
Mr Curran was able to assist in that
regard.
Mr Law summarised the very
considerable documentation
concerning the circumstances
of Jeff Scott allegedly re-homing
GLYNNSCROSSCHRIS with a
person named to the Committee
(hereafter ‘Person A’) and a dog
identified as GLYNNSCROSSCHRIS
being found shortly thereafter in
a canal at Beverley. After some
discussion concerning Person A’s
age (80 years old) and cluttered
small bungalow with no provision
to accept a greyhound, Mr Scott
accepted that in retrospect Person A
could not act as a responsible carer
for the dog, although he claimed
to have rehomed three other dogs
with him since 2017. In the event,
according to his statement to the
GBGB investigation, within hours of
receiving it from Mr Scott, Person
A had passed the dog to travellers.
Person A told the GBGB investigation
that the greyhound was a brown and
white dog, when in fact it was a blue
bitch. The fact that Person A could
not remember the correct colour or
sex of the dog was not attributable,
in the Committee’s view to Mr Scott’s
jokey deliberate misdescription. The
Green Form (Retirement etc of the
Greyhound) was dated some eight
days before the dog had been found,
to the knowledge of Mr Scott. The
form bore a signature for Person A.
But as Mr Scott admitted, this was
a forgery: Person A had not signed
the form. Mr Scott also admitted that
submitting the form with this forged
signature was an act of dishonesty
on his part. On the evidence, the
Committee were unconvinced that
GYLNNSCROSSCHRIS had passed
through the hands of Person A at all.
The Committee heard evidence
concerning the rehoming of a number
of other greyhounds by Mr Scott
over a 5-year period where the
Green Forms were inappropriately
completed. He alleged that a
number of the dogs stated on the
forms to be rehomed had not in
fact been rehomed but in fact sold
on. Given that Kinsley operates a
very successful rehoming scheme,
the Committee were at a loss to
understand why Mr Scott would
have independently rehomed his
greyhounds, as he claimed even
allowing for the limitations imposed
by his difficulty with documents.
There was plenty of assistance
available to him at Kinsley Stadium
concerning successful rehoming
and with the completion of Green
Forms, had he sought it. Efforts to
trace a number of the greyhounds
rehomed by Mr Scott over the period
had so far proved unsuccessful and
the Committee were unconvinced by
Mr Scott’s statement that many of
the dogs were in the possession of
“flappers” as well as travellers who
were unwilling to co-operate with
officers of GBGB because of alleged
intimidation. Mr Scott had so far
failed to direct any of the GBGB’s
investigators to the “rehomed” dogs.
The Committee did not accept Mr
Scott’s suggestion that in the Board’s
inquiries potential witnesses who
had been approached but denied
knowing about dogs Mr Scott
claimed to have rehomed had not
recognised who the investigators
were asking about because he was
known as “Pincher” (his nickname)
and not as Jeff Scott.
Mr Law made a submission for
appropriate sanction for the rule
breaches
The Committee considered both
the written and oral evidence of Mr
Scott to be inconsistent and in parts
not credible. His actions had been
very prejudicial to the reputation of greyhound racing. They found him in breach of Rule 18, 152(i) & (ii) and rule 174 (vi) of the GBGB Rules of racing. He was disqualified indefinitely and fined £1000
This is the type of filth I have been dealing with for the past 27 years…sleep tight little one
