Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Racing regulators kept hearing the reports: trainers were giving their horses a powerful performance-enhancing potion drawn from the backs of a type of South American frog. But for months postrace testing could not find the substance, a painkiller far more powerful than morphine. Then a lab in the Denver area tweaked its testing procedure, and […]
IT MAKES racehorses run through pain and is used in such tiny doses it can’t be detected. Sounds like the ultimate drug for racetrack dopers. And that’s just why racing authorities here jumped to attention when they heard snake venom might be closer to home than ever believed. Using a highly toxic substance to win […]
12/12/2020 8 Newcastle Sample Irregularity – Mrs K Morris – (BLACK EDITION) Levamisole Investigation continuing TBC 30/12/2020 1 Penrith Sample Irregularity – Mrs K Morris – (BLACK EDITION) Levamisole Investigation continuing TBC 09/03/2021 7 Leeton Sample Irregularity – Mr M Buckingham – (TARA LEEANN) Levamisole Adjourned 04/04/2022 23/03/2021 8 Menangle Sample Irregularity – Mr J […]
The Andrews Labor Government is helping to grow the harness racing industry by boosting the number of owners and breeders. Through the Labor Government’s Victorian Racing Industry Fund $1.42 million will enable Harness Racing Victoria’s (HRV) Vicbred Platinum Scheme to encourage breeding, racing and ownership of Victorian horses, with HRV matching the investment. There are currently more […]
Gee they liked each other didn’t they? The Queen is cactus. Oh well. She’s 96, filthy rich, hasn’t worked a real day in her life,. and has had the best of it for almost a century. None of us really ever knew her, but were conned that we did. Betty is about to die. We […]
I have no method. Method is imitation. I invent. Federico Tesio I was talking to a mate last night who rents a house and used to drive cabs for a living. A lot of my mates used to drive cabs and rent their lodgings. Many still do in different ways. So what? Jesus rode a donkey […]
The leader is the $1.07 favourite. Even at that price, you’d have had your house on it at the top of the straight, and been headed for the queue. What a wasted trip it would have been. Punting hey? What a great preparation for the trials and tribulations of life. These square heads just don’t […]
Wow, it was only yesterday that we wrote a story about the former gun apprentice Nick Keal riding trackwork, and welcoming him back. Now we learn that on Saturday he’s returning to saddle in race riding. Nick’s got three mounts so far at Goondoowindi on Saturday afternoon, and with undeclared riders in the last two […]
Watch this fall, and what Angus Garrard does when he goes down. This kid could have let go of the reins and put himself out of danger. But he didn’t, because he knew if he did he would be putting his horse in it. So he hung on and steered it out of danger from […]
The APG is a world of pain, all of it self-inflicted. It’s competitor Nutrien Equine has had huge numbers entered into it’s 2023 yearling sales. Melbourne has 315 entries, and the sale will be run over 2 days. Sydney has 238. Neither of those numbers is surprising, given that APG have withdrawn from selling in […]
