Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Kiwi trainer/driver Nigel McGrath is a persistent serial cheat. In 2004 he was disqualified for 3 years (halved on appeal) for using the highly controversial banned performance enhancing drug Blue Magic, in part of a broader scandal that cost two men their lives. Years later he was suspended from driving – but incredibly not from […]
HRNSW swabs all winners at NSW Tab meetings (that is, all meetings except for Broken Hill), all first, second and third placegetters in all races with total prizemoney exceeding $100,000, all first and second placegetters in all races with total prizemoney between $50,000 and $99,999, all horses that have successfully been claimed, and all winners […]
I’ve been pondering the Pizzuto arsenic positive swab thing, and come to the conclusion that it’s very bloody strange. There have been thousands of horses compulsorily housed in the retention barn since it was constructed using what are now claimed to be arsenic treated boards, and not one of them has thrown a positive swab […]
The retention barn at Menangle is a supposed drug-proof prison covered by cameras and guarded 24/7 that runners in big races are ordered to enter and remain in from midday on the Thursday until two hours prior to start time of the race. The whole intent is to prevent horses from being doped with Performance […]
Trotter Sheetweb Weaver has won just 4 races from 34 starts before joining the stable of trainer Bruce Birch, the last of them coming at Cobram in May 2023. He had gone winless from his past 2o runs, managing just three placings in among 17 unplaced finishes. Pre-Birch the fastest time he had ever run […]
We told you Rockhampton trainer Tom Smith was a koala and we were right. The penalty handed down to him on 30 April for a cobalt positive proves it. It’s not the 12 month suspension that is in issue, or the fact that it was suspended. The issue is the way in which the sentence […]
This is an FBI recording of a trainer buying EPO from the corrupt vet Seth Fishman, who is currently serving 11 years in prison for his crimes. It makes for very interesting listening, particularly the part where Fishman tells the trainer that horses that aren’t geared up with Performance Enhancing Drugs (PED’s) can’t be competitive […]
The all the way victory of Will I Am in the 5th race at Menangle yesterday came after a winless run of 17 starts and it got me curious. “Has this horse ever won when its been pre-race swabbed?” I asked myself. So I went and had a look, and the answer is no. Will […]
Last week we told you the story about how Cantfindabettorman was stripped of it’s ID24 Consolation win after returning a positive swab to Heptaminol, but the horse’s trainer Isabel Walsh escaped with just a fine after Stewards found that the drug had been prescribed by a vet and that Walsh had recorded administration of it […]
The Tom Dabernig trained sprinter Ashford Street threw a positive swab to Testosterone, Formestane, 4-Hydroxytestosterone, and 6a-Hydroxyandrost-4-Ene3, 17-Dione in a swab taken before its run in the Millennium Sprint at Caulfield in October. These are steroids, and under the rules of racing Ashford Street would have been banned from racing for a year for having […]
