The Moral of Every Story
“The whole truth, unsanitised, and unedited, is our greatest learning resource.” Grace Tame, 2021 Ain’t that the truth?
Of Course It’s Doping – The US FBI Doping Trial Begins
The jury in the federal horse-doping trial of Seth Fishman on Tuesday, Jan. 25, heard a portion of a Federal Bureau of Investigation wiretap in which the veterinarian discusses whether the drugs he sold to horse trainers involved doping. On the call with Fishman was an unidentified individual who wants to know more about the […]
Woods of Spellbound Ruins – Change the Names and You’re Talking About Australia – Part 1 – The Dead Vet
“The state police called me. They just found his body in the woods.” “He is dead” “Yup, I told you. They found his body in the woods and I guess she is going to be … I mean she gave us so many stories. That he was in rehab. He went there. He went there. […]
Woods of Spellbound Ruins – Change the Names and You’re Talking About Australia – Part 2 – Switching the Drugs
Poliseno then turned the conversation to what Conner’s disappearance and death could mean for him. He had been using Conner’s veterinary license information to purchase drugs for resale, and now he believed he was about to be caught. It never becomes completely clear in the transcripts whether Poliseno was concerned he had dated some prescriptions […]
Woods of Spellbound Ruins – Change the Names and You’re Talking About Australia – Part 3 – Shock to the Heart, and the Vet’s To Blame
According to other documents from prosecutors, Grasso was no stranger to having his license used by laypeople. He allegedly wrote prescriptions as requested by trainers without examining their horses for $100 per script, sometimes making it appear that EPO and other substances were being ordered for treatment of nonexistent horses, or sometimes, a fictional dog […]
Woods of Spellbound Ruins – Change the Names and You’re Talking About Australia – Part 4 – What’s the Colour of a Two Cent Piece? Copper, Copper
The Delaware commission ultimately undercut the stewards’ rulings, reducing Neilson’s penalty to a one-month suspension and a $1,000 fine because they believed he was ignorant of the rules and guilty mostly of poor recordkeeping. For Pecoraro, they overturned the penalty altogether because they said the stewards had failed to cite the absolute insurer rule that […]
David v Goliath – Miami Horseman Fight to Save Harness Racing in Florida, and Perhaps in the Whole of the US
Up until now a casino operator in Florida – and indeed in many other States of America, although not all – had to put on live racing in order to qualify for a license to operate poker (slot) machines in their establishment. Poker machine licenses are equivalent to a license to print money, so Isle […]
A Very Odd Stewards Decision Indeed
Sometimes race stewards make decisions that leave you scratching your head and wondering if what you just saw and read with the same pair of eyes is real, or whether you are in fact walking around in some sort of parallel world hallucinating. Take this stewards report of race 3 at the Geelong trots on […]
Todd Pannell’s Them at the Bridge
Last year’s South Australian jockey of the year Todd Pannell had an Australia Day to remember at Murray Bridge this afternoon, booting home four of the seven winners to score more than half the card. The hoop’s winners weren’t at long prices – $2.80, $1.60, $3.10, and $3.10 – but if you’d combined them in […]
It Was No Picnic For the Punters at Hanging Rock
Hanging Rock is one of the most picturesque race tracks in Australia. It is also the scene of one of the most disturbing fictional events in our nation’s literary history, the disappearance of a group of schoolgirls and their teacher while out on a summer’s picnic on Valentine’s Day. Most quaddie punters at the Rock […]