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We have been writing a lot about cobalt positive swabs lately, predominantly because we’ve been struck by the huge differences in penalties being applied by Stewards in different states for identical offences. In Queensland we have seen a number of trainers escape with fines or suspended sentences after their horses have thrown positive swabs to […]
Here is an interesting one. A horse owned by Dr Andrew Grierson the principal of Woodlands Stud is said to have thrown a positive swab. Dr Grierson is the NZ Racing Board (Thoroughbred NZ) Veterinary Advisor, and in that capacity is often called on as the expert witness in positive swab cases, just as he […]
Cran, Carter and Chrissie Dalgety (pictured above)s The word according Lurch (John Dunn) out of the Woodend Beach bunker this week is that one of Cran and Chrissie Dalgety’s horses that raced at the recent Nelson meeting has thrown a positive swab to a prohibited substance. Lurch is telling people that the dirty swab has […]
A team of Stewards and vets turned out in force at the Mildura trots last month to conduct a surprise race night swabbing blitz. Three Stewards accompanied by four vets rocked up to the track on a Wednesday night and pre-race swabbed 88 of the 89 runners on the program, with the only horse that […]
The QRIC Stewards team performed much needed without notice drug and alcohol testing at the Mackay racetrack this morning. Or they tried to anyway. No-one was there. Mackay is usually a bustling training center in the early hours before dawn when the QRIC team arrived at 4.3oam, but it was like a ghost town as […]
Paul Tonkin (no relation to Peter or Clayton) is a small-time trot trainer from Victoria who from time to time crosses the border to race his tiny team at Wagga in New South Wales. Tonkin suffers from chronic pain resulting from injuries he suffered in a car accident some years ago, and is dependent on […]
The whisper from the QRIC’s Breakfast Creek bunker is that the QLD gallops Chief Steward Josh Adams and a local Brisbane company are working together on technology that will assist with protest hearings. Made using real-time positional data technology, similar to ball tracker, the new software will be able to tell stewards everything: the direction […]
The rumor mill is running rife that a leading Toowoomba trainer has had two horses throw positive swabs to Meloxicam. We won’t name them at present until we can confirm, but no-one will be surprised if and when we do. You will just shake your head and say surely they couldn’t be that silly could […]
Brendan James is a Tamworth based trainer whose horse threw a positive swab to Phenylbutazone, often referred to as “bute”, is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory painkilling drug for the short-term treatment of pain and fever in horses. Pacers and trotters are not allowed to race with bute in their system, because it masks pain from injuries […]
This is an observation only, although it was shared by a number of people who attended the Nutrien yearling sale yesterday. A number of the lots on offer – particularly those prepared or offered by former APG executive Dean Baring – looked doped. By doped we mean sedated. Many of these lots were paraded around […]
