Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Harness Racing New South Wales (HRNSW) Stewards commenced an Inquiry today in relation to reports from the Australian Racing Forensic Laboratory (ARFL) that Levamisole was detected in the following samples: Pre-race blood sample taken from the horse SKINNYDIP NZ prior to race 4, the STEEL SUPPLIES PACE (2270 metres) conducted at Wagga on Friday 7 […]
Harness Racing Victoria doesn’t say it as bluntly, but they reckon that their Integrity Team are being thwarted in their efforts to conduct without notice stable inspections by some trainers who have installed security gates with coded locks at the access points to their properties. Again they don’t say it in so many words, but […]
Just when we’ve been giving the QRIC under Kim Kelly’s operational leadership a huge wrap for its hyper-charged new and improved swabbing regime in the South-East, along comes yesterday’s meeting at Cairns and blows the whole thing out of the water. I don’t know if the new supply of test kits got lost in the […]
Four-year-old Kiwi mare Xcite Me came to Australia a in July as a 13 start maiden, and didn’t look to be any world beater. She didn’t in her six starts for skilled Sydney trainer Paul Fitzpatrick either. He did get her to finally break her duck in weak race at Bathurst, but after that she […]
Most people are unaware that there is a Commission of Inquiry into Greyhound NSW going on at the moment, because there has been bugger all media coverage of it, but it’s happening. The inquiry is being held under Part 8 of the Greyhound Racing Act (NSW) 2017, a piece of legislation that gives the Greyhound […]
Something strange is going on at Greyhound Racing NSW (GRNSW), something very strange indeed. There are supposedly unconnected connections happening left, right and centre, and the unconnected connected people are making a motza through their unconnected connections. If you know what I mean. The law firm Pryor, Tzannes and Wallis that was formerly owned by […]
Robert Macauley was the company secretary of Greyhound Racing NSW from 2020 until 1 July 2023, when he became the acting CEO of the organisation. Macaulay was appointed to the official role of CEO on 1/8/2023. Somewhere in between, on the 1/2/2022 – while he held the role as GRNSW company secretary – Robert Macaulay […]
In the same week that the animal activists scored a huge win by shutting down greyhound racing in New Zealand, a bloody dog has to come out and die on us. Khatanga Tex had only just turned three when it suffered a catastrophic injury on the turn out of the h0me straight in the 9th […]
Injuries per 1000 starters 14 Thoroughbred 3 Harness Medical conditions per 1000 starters 610 Thoroughbred 57 Harness Deaths per 1000 starters 33 Thoroughbred 1 Harness Source – Qld Racing Integrity Commission Click to access Equine-lifecyce-and-on-track-injury-report-2023-24.pdf
