Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Illegal performance enhancing drugs have no place in Irish racing and breeding industries. In particular, the Task Force supports the position of the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities that the use of anabolic steroids should not be permitted in or out of competition. Doping is cheating, and cheating is fraud: cheats have no place in […]
(Background note – Dr Lynn Hillyer is the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board’s Chief Veterinary Officer and Head of anti-doping) There have been multiple cobalt cases during Dr Hillyer’s tenure as Chief Veterinary Officer, but O’Brien’s violation goes to the heart of everything that’s wrong with her anti-doping programme Pedisnap ran four times as a three […]
Keep looking Joe. We are too. One thing that seems to have flown under the radar on Saturday is the appalling performances of the trio of Joseph O’Brien runners. His three runners weren’t bad, they were awful. Baron Samedi had great staying form in Europe and in the USA. He had won the Vintage Crop […]
On the 31st of August 2022, and then again on the 9th of December 2022, without any fanfare at all or public any public statement about the matter, Harness Racing Australia repealed the racing rules that required owners of horses to notify either they or the State Controlling Body – or both – that a […]
Archie Do you now racing is barking up the wrong tree with thinking “animal welfare” is the key issue to sustainability? Well it isn’t, though not saying it’s not important, just not how you think. Something that markedly increases the cost to “bread and butter” breeders and owners – ie requirements to maintain all stock […]
We have been writing for a long time now about missing presumed dead Ben Yole horses. Well, I can announce now with 100 percent certainty that we have identified two horses that Yole or his owners have notified Tasracing and HRA are retired, are in fact dead. Tarleton Reilly and Heidi Go Seek are the […]
D0n’t mess with Doctor Dream He’s not one for sympathyHe will bring you to your kneesLose your troublesEase your pain This is the price you must pay Remember this story below? Re-read it if you don’t. It’s about how the QRIC kept a dog with a broken leg out in the sun writhing in pain, […]
There are some awful whispers coming out of the western districts about the predicament of the 6YO pacing mare Ellen Shannon. We are hearing that the mare went sore after her most recent 22m fourth at Bathurst six weeks ago, which followed on from her horrible 51.3 metre beating at the same track 16 days […]
Gai is correct that accidents do happen, but when footballers or racing car drivers suffer an injury in training they aren’t put down by injection with a lethal needle. And equine accidents seem to happen at a far greater rate to horses brought to Australia by Coolmore – which has been the subject of widespread […]
This is hard to believe, but rather than step back from the fire presently engulfing him, the accused race fixer and certain animal abuser Ben Yole has decided to stretch his wings further by expanding his operations into Adelaide. And the South Australian authorities have given him their blessing! Yole – who to the best […]
