{"id":123713,"date":"2025-11-05T19:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/123713\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T19:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T19:57:14","slug":"billionaire-luke-comer-allegedly-offered-bribe-to-trainer-to-take-rap-for-banned-substances-in-horses-high-court-hears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/123713\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Luke Comer allegedly offered bribe to trainer to take \u2018rap\u2019 for banned substances in horses, High Court hears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Luke Comer at his yard in Co Wicklow. Photo: Mark Condren.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/14416c63-5c30-4268-8d86-41e98ab25e8b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Luke Comer at his yard in Co Wicklow. Photo: Mark Condren.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A horse trainer who was laid off by billionaire stud owner Luke Comer after banned substances were found in some of the stud&#8217;s animals claims Mr Comer had tried to bribe him into &#8220;accepting the rap&#8221; for what happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Jim Gorman, who was Mr Comer&#8217;s training manager at his Brookville Racing Ltd firm for six years, has made the claim in High Court proceedings seeking information about defamatory allegations he says were made against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Comer at his yard in Co Wicklow. Photo: Mark Condren. A horse trainer who was laid off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,898,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-123713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-latest-news-ticker","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}