Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The New Zealand racing rules provide that the Racing Integrity Board can order a licensee who is convicted of a rule breach to pay its (the RIB’s) costs incurred in prosecuting them. Imagine that in a democracy. Paying the police to prosecute you. It sounds like Nazi Germany. Of course the more you protest your […]
NSW harness racing trainers Peter Hanson and Dylan Xerri have had their licenses suspended after their horses threw positive swabs to the drug Xylometazoline after winning races in the past few few months. It is believed to be the first time that an Australian horse recorded a positive to the drug. Xylometazoline is the active […]
If you might remember we broke this story before the Stewards had even realised that Jack Brown had substituted a urine sample provided to him secretly by Lucas Rando and claimed that it was his own. And HRNSW won’t even answer emails that we send to them asking questions about important matters. How odd. You’d […]
NSW driver Jack Brown was stood down on Monday for failing to provide a urine sample when required to by the Stewards who were random drug testing at the Goulburn meeting. It turns out though that Brown did actually provide a sample, one that was of less volume than outlined in the collection guidelines provided […]
Harness Racing NSW have thrown the kitchen sink at drivers Jack Brown and Lucas Rando for swapping urine samples when the random drug test team came to Goulburn at the end of October last year, and then they’ve put the boot in as well. Brown – the prime offender, who in his desperation to avoid […]
24 June 2025 Harness Racing New South Wales (HRNSW) Stewards have concluded Inquiries that were commenced in relation to the provision of human urine samples to HRNSW Stewards at Goulburn on 21 October 2024, Menangle on 19 November 2024 and the subsequent analysis of those samples. On Wednesday 21 May 2025, Mr Rando was present […]
We told you way back in January 2023 that Nick Walsh was a drug cheat. His strike rates were just too incredible for him to be anything else. When something looks too good to be true it usually is. Walsh got caught with the banned performance enhancing anabolic steroid Stanozolol in one of horse’s systems. […]
Something seems to be afoot in the Nick Walsh camp. His best galloper Hell was yesterday transferred into the care of the horse basher and doper trainer Tom Smith. Walsh’s recent winner Daimyo was too. Both horses have different connections so it’s unlikely to be due to an ownership dispute. More likely it has to […]
They were unable to determine how the product entered the horse’s system. However, Meloxicam could be administered orally. BESIDE ME might have been an unfortunate and vulnerable target. She was a first-starter in a maiden race, paying $1.50 on the tote, by a leading sire in DOWNBYTHESEASIDE and out of a $1.4 million stakes-winning mare […]
Dr Andrew Grierson (pictured) is the HRNZ Chief Veterinarian. How he can possibly hold that role given the demonstrable conflict with his personal business interests is a question that needs to be answered, both by HRNZ and by the Racing Integrity Board, which role it is to maintain and uphold the integrity of the sport. […]
