Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The battle weary 8YO pacer Readily isn’t quite what you would call a commercial proposition as a race horse. In fact he would probably be fairly described as an absolute cat. Prior to yesterday old Readily had raced 198 times around a paceway, and hadn’t won in his last 58 of them, which you would […]
Concerns are being raised in the harness racing industry about a new performance-enhancing drug – gas from refrigerators. The latest ‘fad drug’, which has also raised concerns with racing officials in Australia, sees xenon and argon gases extracted from refrigerators and in some cases, lightbulbs, then administered to the horses through a nebuliser. Industry veteran […]
Ben Currie and John O’Shea were convicted of the identical offence of presenting a horse to race when it had traces of the prohibited substance Methamphetamine in its system. O’Shea’s horse also had amphetamine in its system. Currie’s did not. O’Shea had two previous convictions for dishonesty to Stewards on his record at the time […]
