Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Wasn’t this superb targeted pre-race swabbing (PRS) by HRNSW officials last night at Penrith? Only one favorite all night was swabbed. Neither of the odds on faves were among them. 5 of the 8 horses pre-race tested were at double figure odds, with 4 of the 8 at prices of $20.00 or longer. What the […]
There were six races at Port Pirie. The winners of only two of them were post race swabbed after their victories. Those two winners swabbed were trained by Ryan Hryhorec (1) and Leah Holman (1). None of Aaron Bain’s three winners was asked to give a post-race sample. That’s a bit of a worry, for […]
Drug addicted South Australian reinsman Kenny ‘The Gambler’ Rogers (pictured above) recently recorded his 5th positive swab to being under the influence of drugs – and his fourth for that drug being methamphetamine – at a harness meeting at which he was driving in professional races. Methamphetamine, commonl known as Ice – is utterly illegal […]
A pacer named Black Edition was purchased from NZ by Kerry Ann Morris, and arrived at her stables in Menangle on the 2oth of November 2020. 5 of 6 days before leaving NZ – somewhere between the 14th and 15th of November 2020 – Black Edition had been treated with levamisole by the seller’s trainer […]
Chubby Checker the former Turbo trained pacer that has got him into all the trouble hasn’t raced since December last year. The singer that it was named after is still at the age of 82 going strong and belting out tunes at the trots. I guess the original Chubby never got treated with Levamisole. This […]
Kerry Ann Morris’s appeal against her 6-month disqualification for presenting her Kiwi import Black Edition to race twice with the prohibited substance Levamisole in its system has been dismissed by the NSW Harness Racing Appeal Panel. We will provide a detailed commentary on the panel’s decision in a later article. What it means upfront though […]
Emma Stewart trained four odds-on favorites at Menangle last night. Extraordinarily not one of them was pre-races swabbed. Admittedly her Oaks winner Very Pretty ($1.09) and Queen Elizabeth II Mile runner-up Ladies in Red ($1.75) had been in the retention barn up to 2 hours before their races, but to imagine that stops a determined […]
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Now trainer Nick Walsh, pictured with Alfie back in his days as a young gun rodeo star Nick Walsh is a young Rockhampton gallops trainer and horseman in his mid-twenties, who in the few years since he started training has been leading winners in at an average strike rate 3 in every 10 starters, and […]
Diclofenac Diclofenac is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). It humans it treats rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis sprains and strains in muscles and ligaments back pain toothache migraine gout ankylosing spondylitis – this causes inflammation of the spine and other parts of the body It does same in horses. Diclofenac is not a cure for any of these conditions, […]
