Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We wrote earlier about Cran Dalgety’s star filly Beside Me returning a positive swab to Meloxicam after winning a race at Wyndham earlier in the year. Well it appears as usual that we were right, for although there is no published record of either Dalgety having been charged with an offence by Stewards, or of […]
The B sample of the star filly Beside Me’s swab has come back positive to Meloxicam like the first, and now all we are waiting on is the RIB Stewards to charge trainer Cran Dalgety for presenting his girl to race with the prohibited substance in her system. It’s bad news for Dalgety, because if […]
Leading Queensland greyhound trainer Tony Zammit (pictured above) has been disqualified for 12 months after his star dog Valpolicella returned a positive swab to the permanently banned steroid Methandienone when finishing 5th in the 2023 edition of the Group 1 Top Gun Stayers at the Meadows. Nine of the twelve months disqualification has been suspended, […]
Queensland harness trainer Murray Thomas has received 2 x 6 month disqualifications to be served cumulatively (one on top of the other) after his pair of pacers Ellis Street and Lady Allegra both returned positive swabs to testosterone in two races that each competed in during the middle of last year. The testosterone in the […]
We have written at length over recent months about the huge disparity between the sentences being issued by the different states to trainers whose horses return positive swabs to cobalt. On the eastern seaboard its almost become a State of Origin style battle between Queensland to offer the lowest sentences on one hand, and NSW […]
A couple of months ago we told you about Zev Meredith, the junior driver with a pot problem who, when he realised the Stewards were doing drug testing at Alexandra Park, phoned in to tell them his car had broken down and he couldn’t get to the races, and then turned up at the track. […]
The Mallee is alive with chatter about a certain trainer and their love of a drench. They say the trainer is from the south, and travels up for the Mildura meetings. parking their horses and themselves at the gallops track while they are in town. Word is that they did this when they came up […]
During the course of conducting some recent inspections of registered stables, Harness Racing Victoria (HRV) Stewards have become aware of some trainers using hemp-based horse feed as part of their racehorses’ daily diets – HRV Industry Notice – Hemp-Based Horse Feed What can you say about trainers who are silly enough to feed their horses hemp-based […]
There are whispers out of Tasmania that a number of horses from different stables have become the latest in a conga line of gallopers that have thrown positive swabs to the banned breast cancer drug Formestane. Formestane is an estrogen inhibitor which when taken or administered has a consequent effect of increasing a horse’s testosterone […]
Formestane is an aromatase inhibitor and an anti-estrogenic substance. It can block the conversion of androgens into oestrogens. It can therefore be classified as a selective estrogen receptor modulator (SERMS). In the Australian Rules of Racing, compounds listed in Schedule 1, Part 1, Division 1 as prohibited substances include but are not limited to SERMS. […]
