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What is OSPHOS® (clodronate injection)? OSPHOS® (clodronate injection) is a safe and effective FDA-approved treatment marketed by Dechra Veterinary Products for the control of clinical signs associated with navicular syndrome in horses 4 years of age and older. The use of OSPHOS in horses less than 4 years of age has not been studied. What […]
A few days ago, I was playing a game of Words With Friends and put the word “GRAMS” down on the board, using my letter “S” to reach the Double Word spot and get 20 points. My worthy opponent then added the letters P-I-C-O to spell PICOGRAMS and burn me with 40 points! I thought […]
We often talk about trainers extraordinary winning strike rates on this site, but none we have ever seen match the numbers being recorded by English trainer Charlie Appleby and stable rider William Buick’s at Meydan racecourse in Dubai. Appleby is training winners to runners this season at the extraordinary strike rate of 44%, a figure […]
NSW trot trainers Jason Grimson and Seaton Grima are making those in the rest of the country look like mugs, with the pair currently sitting 1-2 on the national metro strike rate list of those trainers who have had more than 10 runners in the season. Here is how the list looks: Grimson 45.5% Grima […]
The word out of Tasmania is that one of the Ben Yole drivers who only a couple of days ago won his appeal against being warned off has thrown a personal positive swab to cocaine at the Hobart trots tonight? They say the trainer – last name Ford, first initial M – was given the […]
According to the Stewards Summary of the meeting there were no horses swabbed – either pre-race or post, including the winners – in the first six races at Globe Derby last night. Then all of a sudden the swabs came with a bang, four pre-race and a post in race 7, and two pre-race and […]
Cone snail venoms are considered a treasure trove of bioactive peptides. Despite over 800 species of cone snails being known, each producing over 1000 venom peptides, only about 150 unique venom peptides are structurally and functionally characterized. To overcome the limitations of the traditional low-throughput bio-discovery approaches, multi-omics systems approaches have been introduced to accelerate […]
Can you believe that this little snail produces the venom that works many times better as a nerve blocker and painkiller than morphine does, and when synthesized and structurally altered was until recently swab proof? All the chemists needed to do was alter 1 or 2 of these cells in the block chain and Bob […]
Tasmanian harness racing trainer Wayne Yole – the 72 year old father of the warned off Ben Yole – has had an average of just under 19 runners a season over the past 5 years, with his most starters in any single year being 43. Our current 2024 season is less than 8 weeks old, […]
At 6 out of 1o the past ten TAB gallops meetings in QLD there have been six horses pre-race swabbed. The most samples taken were 7, which was only once at Rockhampton, which makes sense because milkshake drenching has long been rife amidst the trainers at the track by the Fitzroy River. Three was the […]
