Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
HARNESS Racing New South Wales advises that the licences of Neville Hargraves and Paul Sapio have been suspended pursuant to Australian Harness Racing Rule (AHRR) 183 after Stewards commenced an investigation into a report received that WHYIMAN had been stomach tubed or attempted to be stomach tubed prior to its engagement enroute to the Menangle […]
HRNSW advises that an interim suspension has today been imposed on the licences of Jack Brown and Lucas Rando after DNA analysis was conducted by the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine on the urine samples provided by both drivers at the Goulburn Harness Racing Club meeting on 21 October 2024. The Victorian Institute of Forensic […]
If you are going to pull over to drench your horse on the way to the races, then the Ampol Service Centre at Pheasant’s Nest isn’t the place to do it, for it gets a thousand cars every hour stopping there and the odds are that one of them might be a Steward, the last […]
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 […]
Anything HRV can do, Harness Racing NSW can do better. Or worse, depending on which lens you are looking at the Menangle pre-race swab (PRS) regime from. Only 1 of the favorites on the 8 race card in Sydney was PRS. That Seaton Grima trained runner was also the only 1 of the 4 odds-on […]
Every race on Breeders Crown Finals night at Melton on Saturday was a Group 2 carrying prizemoney of between $50 000 – $100 000. You would expect HRV’s swabbing regime employed on such a program to be at least the same level of class, of preferably for it to be Group 1 standard. Instead it […]
Goulburn trainer Anthony Warren was discovered to have four sealed syringes in his float at Canberra on Cup Day. Warren had only a single runner on the program, the $26 shot Wegotabetterhoffa in the last race. Somewhat oddly the Stewards decided not to take pre-race swabs from the horse after the syringes were detected. That […]
Jason Grimson won fiver races in a row with Outside Fighter during August and September, before the wheels fell off and it put in a pair of back to back shockers, the most recent a tailed off last at Menangle a fortnight ago. Outside Fighter got sacked by Grimson after that run, and was shipped […]
Well well well. So last years NZ Cup run gutted Swayzee so much that they pulled him out of the Friday FFA (after they tried to take advantage of the NZ TAB’s no deduction for scratchings on Fixed Odds bets policy to pull a rort on the punt). And now they want to duck out […]
Canadian trainer Richard Moreau wasn’t the only one who was disqualified for 10 years after new Australian developed tests sprung him having spiked up his stable star Funtime Bayama with synthetic EPO. The horse’s driver Sylvain Filion was too. Filion, who drove the winners of $6 million in prizemoney last year earning him $300 000 […]
