Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The man who owns the Nu Vet company that supplies the stem cells from deer placenta to certain NSW harness racing and galloping trainers is a fellow named Nick Koutsourakis from Victoria. Mr Koutsourakis is a greyhound trainer. Funny sort of bloke to be running a scientific equine and canine stem cell supply company isn’t […]
Inadequate production of erythropoietin (EPO) leads to anemia. Although erythropoiesis-stimulating agents can be used to treat anemia, these approaches are limited by high costs, adverse effects, and the need for frequent injections. Developing methods for the generation and transplantation of EPO-producing cells would allow for the design of personalized and complication-free therapeutic solutions. In mice, […]
Often in this life we try to complicate things that are really very simple. We all look for techno tweaked drugs that are being administered to horses to make them run really fast, when the simple answer is really just right under our feet. EPO is the key. But how do the cheats give it […]
Belmont Major was a former New Zealand pacer sold at the Red Mile Mixed Winter Sale too. He was a very smart pacer at home, but nowhere near the league of Ashley Locaz. When he left New Zealand’s shores on the 3rd of June last year to go and race in the USA Belmont Major […]
Does anyone remember the former Purdon and Rasmussen trained pacer Ashley Locaz? In 2017 as a two-year-old Ashley Locaz beat Spankem, The Devil’s Own and All U Need Is Faith in the $150 000 Group 1 Harness Jewels. Two years later he ran 2nd behind Poster Boy in the Group 1 Chariots Of Fire, beating […]
Spot the Aussie. Then try and spot the West Aussie. Friday night’s $300 000 Fremantle Cup at Gloucester Park is a ripper of a race, an absolute bottler. It’s also a stark illustration of the current state of Western Australian harness racing. We often lament the situation in Tasmania where, operating under a business model […]
A few days ago I told you the story about how an NZ Racing Integrity Board adjudicator named Olivia Jarvis stuffed up an RIB hearing involving a horse named High Flying Harry. Today I want to tell you a bit more. The so-called ‘independent adjudicator’ Olivia Jarvis is the girlfriend/partner of a barrister named Kerry […]
VICTORIAN horse racing’s new corruption watchdog has vehemently denied having accepted cash from a convicted drug dealer to do private detective work, saying the allegations are part of a malicious campaign to destroy his reputation and force him out of the industry. Former detective Dayle Brown, chosen last week to head Racing Victoria’s integrity services […]
Well, well, well. Look at this. Peter Lamb is the name you are looking at, the starter at Melton. Lamb is the man who got sacked in New Zealand for hooking the start of last year’s NZ Trotting Cup, the one in which his mate Mark Purdon’s horse Self Assured got a flying start from […]
The man in charge of Tuesday’s controversial New Zealand Cup start has been replaced. Long-time Canterbury harness racing starter Peter Lamb was informed by host club Addington he will no longer be their starter, with the role going to former assistant starter Ricky Donnelly. The start of Tuesday’s $540,000 Group 1 great race was widely […]
