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General Category => Harness Racing => Topic started by: GeeMoney on February 05, 2020, 04:58:27 PM

Title: Tom Miller, Western Fair Ontario judge
Post by: GeeMoney on February 05, 2020, 04:58:27 PM

Anyone know this guy?   What is the good word?

Title: Re: Tom Miller, Western Fair Ontario judge
Post by: cornishcommish on February 05, 2020, 07:07:43 PM

He is mid 50s......learned the business from the bottom....groomed than trained for Doug Brown and his father Tom Sr......began driving in early 80s....won several opens....straight shooter...no games ..no gambling....recom mended by one of Ontarios best judges ...Dick Croteau...to become a judge in the mid 80s.....did his time...named Senior  judge on the WDB circuit in late 90s......became super of judges years late

He has been there..done that...and has the T Shirt

Imagine trying to hire judges to cover all Ontario tracks

Title: Re: Tom Miller, Western Fair Ontario judge
Post by: mwins on February 06, 2020, 07:34:33 AM

Good guy.

But like a lot of judges, he couldn't cut it as a horseman. So now he judges them.

Title: Re: Tom Miller, Western Fair Ontario judge
Post by: GeeMoney on February 06, 2020, 07:56:23 AM

Seems to me he knows nothing about racing from any perspective.   That or the first response here containing “no gambling” is inaccurate.  At least if he was gambling, he would have an excuse for his incompetence.   

Who are the other 2 judges that are scared to death of him?

Title: Re: Tom Miller, Western Fair Ontario judge
Post by: mwins on February 07, 2020, 07:40:15 AM

Those who can, do.

Those who can't, teach....or judge.

Title: Re: Tom Miller, Western Fair Ontario judge
Post by: cornishcommish on February 07, 2020, 08:02:23 AM

Iceman
Please tell us the name of the person who became a lawyer and later headed up the ORC judges

Title: Re: Tom Miller, Western Fair Ontario judge
Post by: Bobbo on February 07, 2020, 02:30:06 PM

Quote from: cornishcommish on February 05, 2020, 07:07:43 PM

He is mid 50s......learned the business from the bottom....groomed than trained for Doug Brown and his father Tom Sr......began driving in early 80s....won several opens....straight shooter...no games ..no gambling....recom mended by one of Ontarios best judges ...Dick Croteau...to become a judge in the mid 80s.....did his time...named Senior  judge on the WDB circuit in late 90s......became super of judges years late

He has been there..done that...and has the T Shirt

Imagine trying to hire judges to cover all Ontario tracks

Was Tom Sr.  same guy who worked for Percy Robillard in Montreal before he moved to Toronto.

Title: Re: Tom Miller, Western Fair Ontario judge
Post by: secondbest on February 07, 2020, 08:45:41 PM

yup

Title: Re: Tom Miller, Western Fair Ontario judge
Post by: PIGLAND on February 07, 2020, 09:37:15 PM

tom miller should be banded from racing!! he is an unfair judge

Title: Re: Tom Miller, Western Fair Ontario judge
Post by: PIGLAND on February 09, 2020, 09:44:38 AM

bump ,lets help get this guy firerd

Title: Re: Tom Miller, Western Fair Ontario judge
Post by: ferdinand the bull on February 09, 2020, 02:04:32 PM

They are all corrupt and golfing biddies with trainers and drivers

Title: Re: Tom Miller, Western Fair Ontario judge
Post by: mwins on February 09, 2020, 07:49:40 PM

Quote from: Bobbo on February 07, 2020, 02:30:06 PM

Was Tom Sr.  same guy who worked for Percy Robillard in Montreal before he moved to Toronto.

That lawyer sounds a lot like "Randy Bennett", may he rest in peace.

Title: Re: Tom Miller, Western Fair Ontario judge
Post by: Brown jug on February 10, 2020, 11:25:45 AM

true
 in fact most people have no idea the inbreeding  and connections at weg/Mohawk

Title: Re: Tom Miller, Western Fair Ontario judge
Post by: Brkn Headpole on February 10, 2020, 12:36:48 PM

and I can tell you that there were orders to destroy hard drives and disposed of containing evidence in certain cases so not to humiliate the industry.

Title: Re: Tom Miller, Western Fair Ontario judge
Post by: SoulAssassin on February 10, 2020, 02:05:25 PM

Quote from: mwins on February 07, 2020, 07:40:15 AM

Those who can, do.

Those who can't, teach....or judge.

and if the judges had never trained or drove youd complain they had no clue becuz they never experienced it first hand. participants suck and blow on this issue all the time. pick a side.

Title: Re: Tom Miller, Western Fair Ontario judge
Post by: Brown jug on February 10, 2020, 03:50:38 PM

everyone with a position of importance at weg comes from the family tree, just check out some of their names and background
 and we wonder why things stay the same

Title: Re: Tom Miller, Western Fair Ontario judge
Post by: mwins on February 11, 2020, 08:59:38 AM

Quote from: Iceman on February 10, 2020, 11:57:32 AM

Horse racing in Ontario has always been about who you know. If you ask me WEG violates employment standards which is the hiring of persons based on experience and qualifications. Right down to Middleton who only got his job because of his old man. AGCO is the same who hire judges based on who they know and some of them as trainers and drivers had multiple offences against them, the BS never stops in Ontario.

And here I thought Middleton was announcing at Flamboro, and was a good hire. Didnt realize he was simply a result of nepotism lol.