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When the man in the bar put his hand under the young woman’s dress, she froze. The fear held her in place. She would later tell a racing industry body how she was petrified, unable to move, “playing dumb” in the hope he would stop.
Horse trainer Michael Breslin, then 54, was drunk. It was November 5, 2016, the first day of the prestigious week-long New Zealand Cup Meeting at Christchurch’s Riccarton Park. Breslin, an established trainer whose horses have topped $5 million in earnings, had raced three of his dozens of horses at the track that day.
The then-18-year-old woman – a track work rider whose name is suppressed – immediately recognised who he was when her fiance, a jockey, introduced them around midnight at the Racecourse Hotel, “the go-to” bar after race day.
Shortly after the meeting, Breslin started to grope her buttocks and silently slid his hand underneath her dress. “I just froze. I didn’t know what to do,” the woman said. She managed to text her partner, playing pool nearby, to ask for help. When her fiance saw what was happening, he confronted Breslin. “Sorry, sorry,” Breslin is alleged to have said. ……
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No. 54: Michael Breslin
1 George Herbert Walker Bush; 2 Bill O’Reilly; 3 Al Franken; 4 Robin Brooke; 5 Lester Beck; No. 6 Arnold Schwarzenegger; 7 Joe Biden; 8 Rolf Harris; 9 Harold Bloom; 10 Sir Jimmy Savile; 11 Dr Morgan Fahey; 12 Prince Harry; 13 Bill Clinton; 14 Judge Roy Moore; 15 Matt Lauer; 16 Richard Branson; 17 Warren Moon; 18 Donald John Trump; 19 Damian Green; 20 Gene Simmons; 21 Sylvester Stallone; 22 Louise’s husband Charlie; 23 Father O’Hagan (AKA “Father Gropius”); 24 David Lloyd George; 25 James Franco; 26 Joel Kramer; 27 Rene Naufahu; 28 Steve Wynn; 29 Vince McMahon; 30 Rob Porter; 31 The old buffers at Russell McVeagh; 32 Otago law students; 33 Tom Brokaw; 34 David Scott; 35 Justin Trudeau; 36 Morgan Freeman; 37 Hugh Hefner’s guests; 38 Brock Turner; 39 Les Moonves; 40 Asia Argento; 41 [name withheld]; 42 NY subway groper; 43 His Dishonor Brett Kavanaugh; 44 Corey Lewandowski; 45 Brooke Howard-Smith; 46 Dr. Filth McGraw; 47 Dominique Strauss-Kahn; 48 Roger Ailes; 49 Louis C.K.; 50 Geoffrey Rush; 51 Michael Douglas; 52 Bill Cosby; 53 Andy Rubin