Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Concern about “doping” in horseracing came to the fore at the turn of the twentieth century, with controls that aimed to ensure fairness. The overarching powers of the British Jockey Club allowed them to ban “doping” from 1903 and introduce very severe punishments for trainers. The term “doping” was adopted from racing in the US; […]
That there were species differences in the rates at which phenylbutazone was metabolised had been known since the early 1950s (Burns et al. 1953), but this knowledge seems to have had little impact amongst veterinarians. There was no citation of the Burns et al. (1960) paper in the veterinary literature before the early 1970s (see Bogan 1972; […]
The growth of veterinary work with non-sporting horses coincided with more reports on the adverse effects of bute in veterinary publications. In 1983, a report of toxicity in ponies described how high doses produced deaths and common side effects were swelling and ulceration of the mouth and gastrointestinal tract (MacAllister 1983). However, thoroughbred horses seemed to tolerate […]
At the height of the horsemeat scandal in 2013, Lees and Toutain (2013) wrote an editorial for Equine Veterinary Education aiming to demonstrate that “the illegal and erratic presence of trace amount residues of phenylbutazone in horse meat is simply not a public health issue” for humans (Editorial 2013, p. 273). Lees and Toutain reviewed the data on pharmacology, […]
Please make sure that you have a quick listen to the song at the end of this story. It’s an all time classic. Like it, suck it, lump it. Here is the fact. Only one team in the past decade has won the NRL final playing with less than 3 players in the 4 man […]
Don’t be stupid Wangarattians, he’s a bloody good race caller Hi Archie There is an issue about equine vets that I would like to raise. I can tell you from decades of experience that the vets don’t positively identify horses on ambulatory calls to stables or studs, and in many cases not even on their […]
The question is this. How does the NR120 rated pacer Act Now – the winner of 19 races from 40 starts, including the 3YO Breeders Crown, the Victoria Derby, 2 heats of ID22 and 3rd placegetter in the final, and earner of just $700 000 at the tender age of 5 – get balloted out […]
Hey mate, ACT NOW was a late nom, thus why not in the field. It’s the trainer’s fault for not nominating him on time. I guess Emma was just busy winning the Eureka then, and forgot. But how does a horse get entered late unless the nominations have been extended? If that is the case […]
I have come to the sad conclusion that there is nothing you say about the the QRIC Stewards and nothing you can do, except shake your head, close your eyes and dream about the days of Pat Lalor and John Schreck, back when Stipes were Stipes and there was a job to be done and […]
Bollente is the last start Brisbane winner who was entered in the Birdsville Cup to compress the weights to give its stablemate a massive advantage on the handicaps, and then scratched 15 minutes after the trainer Nick Walsh had accepted it into the race. After we highlighted this rule breaking trick in a story on […]
