Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There was a Stewards decision made over a week ago but published yesterday that raises as many questions as it does give answers. The case involved a horse named OBLIGATED that was doped by mistake. Trainer Lyle Wright had to go to the hospital for an appointment on race day, so he left the horse […]
A 31-year-old Hobart man has been charged after allegedly being found with $580,000 in cash inside a shopping cooler bag. Officers from Tasmania Police, Australian Federal Police and Australian Border Force were involved in the months-long investigation, which was part of an operation targeting alleged drug distribution syndicates in Tasmania. Police intercepted the man while […]
Mitchell Reese is a bad egg. The NSW Racing Appeals Panel said it, not me. These are some of their words, contained in the written decision dismissing the appeal of Reece’s ex-partner Rebecca Brown against a 5-year-disqualification she incurred for drug cheating: … numerous 2016 SMS messages establish that Mitchell Reese and Nathan Carroll in […]
You might have noticed that certain hitherto highly successful harness racing and thoroughbred stables have dropped off the pace recently, and are no longer getting the results that they were not too long ago. We are told that’s at least in part, and maybe whole, because the power stack of performance enhancing peptides that they […]
Further to our recent mention of a South Australian gallops trainer being caught with peptides, it appears that the vials seized by the Stewards contain a synthetic compound imported illegally from India. The substance was not known to the authorities prior to the seizure, but it is now and the scientists in the racing labs […]
Ice, meth, P, crack, crystal. Call it what you like, it is still one of the most evil drugs ever to be seen on this earth. There are no winners out of this stuff except the crims who make or import it and don’t get caught. The rest of us lose in every way, those […]
Archie I’ve just read your article on Greg Fleming. I just wanted to give you a few facts about him and you can do as please with them. I have known Greg for over 30 years and I can guarantee you he is not a crook. He made the fatal mistake of employing David Moran […]
Finally, fifteen months after the $100 000 Hunter Regional Championship final was run and won, the result of the feature race has been determined after the runner that finished first past the post The Cid has been disqualified for throwing a positive swab to the prohibited substance harpagoside, an anti-inflammatory painkiller that is commonly found […]
Earlier this week we told you how NSW harness racing trainer Tony Bertwistle had been hammered by Stewards with 2 x 2.5 year sentences after a pair of his horses returned positive swabs to cobalt. In the same week the decision in the case of a Victorian gallops trainer named John Pearson whose horse also […]
In recent times we have been bemoaning the disparity in penalties handed down to licensees by Harness Racing NSW compared to those meted out in other states, and here is another stark illustration of the issue. In June trot drivers Jack Brown and Lucas Rando were disqualified for switching urine samples during an on-course drug […]
