Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Science 101. Mammals breathe by turning air into energy. Oxygen is our energy, just petrol is a car’s. We breathe air into the body via the mouth and nose, and it goes through the lungs down to the blood. The red cells in your blood grab the air and suck the pure oxygen (O2) out. […]
How does the reserve fuel tank in the horse’s spleen work? The spleen is like a sponge stuck in between other organs. In a human this sponge’s job is simply to filter waste, sort of the oil filter on your car; however in horses it serves the additional role of being the extra fuel tank. […]
How do you increase the number of red blood cells that are stored in a horse’s spleen? You use blood builders. These can be a variety of things, on their own or – more usually – used in combination. Sodium bicarbonate – a milkshake – is the traditional way, but in the modern era that […]
Sunshine Coast trainer Stuart Kendrick has been fined just $5000 for his third breach of the substance rule in the past 12 months. Kendrick’s fine was for presenting his horse Savannah Gangster to race with the painkiller Meloxicam and the anti-inflammatory Flunixin in its system, the same offence that he was fined $3000 for in […]
Power and the money, money and the powerMinute after minute, hour after hourEverybody’s runnin’, but half of them ain’t lookin’It’s going on in the kitchen, but I don’t know what’s cookin’ – Coolio The news just filtering in is that one of leading Sunshine Coast trainer Stuart Kendrick’s horses has thrown yet another positive swab, […]
Greg Eurell is quite a distinguished racehorse trainer. He has won multiple Group 1 races with Apache Cat, and a Cox Plate with Pinker Pinker. Eurell has an all but spotless reputation, and we don’t seek to besmirch it. But if what the police are saying is true – and we don’t have an opinion […]
Word is filtering through from the south that a former Victorian trainer Grant Dalziel and former Victorian jockey Brian Park have been pinched by police over a billion dollar cocaine importation. Neither was much chop on the track. It appears they are not much better at importing coke. Winners win. This pair have lost. They […]
Story by Eliza Barr: Daily Telegraph Multiple harness racing industry identities have been charged with allegedly ferrying drugs and cash on passenger flights and through the mail between NSW and Tasmania, court documents have revealed. The harness racing world was rocked after Menangle Park horse owner Justin Downey was charged with directing an alleged syndicate […]
Story by Lucy Rutherford: Adelaide Advertiser Original Operation Ironside arrest Andrew Benz awaits fate for trafficking 50kg of methamphetamine concealed in horse feed An original AN0M player, known as ‘The Pope’ awaits his fate after he made the “catastrophic” decision to transport 50kg of methamphetamine hidden in horse feed. A horse trainer with a “nothing […]
Leading WA harness racing trainer Mike Reed has been disqualified for 6 month for his horse Henty throwing a positive swab to Solatol, a human beta blocker used off label on horses as an antiarrhythmic to treat atrial fibrillation. Oddly, Reed did not claim environmental contamination, but rather put evidence before the Stewards ed that […]
