Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Back in April last year we wrote a story about country trot trainer Dwayne Brown’s horse Princess Remi having thrown a positive swab to a painkiller. The story was correct that the Stewards had summoned Brown to explain why the anti-inflammatory painkiller Naproxen had been found in his horse’s swab. That they did indeed. The […]
The QLD Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) makes some very strange decisions from time to time. In fact they make them all the time. The recent case of Ronald Ryan is yet another example. Ryan got sprung administering boost paste to a horse named FIVE BULLS by the QRIC flying squad when they drove up the […]
Tasked with cleaning up racing in Tasmania, respected integrity official Sean Carroll says his top priority is to rebuild the confidence of the racing public and racing participants in the Apple Isle – Sean Carroll last week on Racenet It’s fair to say there hasn’t been a lot of confidence in Tasmanian racing. I can […]
Toowoomba trainer Lindsay Hatch has been granted a stay of operation of his 12 month suspension for a positive swab. Hatch was actually suspended for 9 months after being found guilty of a presentation charge by Stewards, but the conviction enlivened a previous 9 month suspended sentence that he received for a previous positive swab, […]
Reigning Chariots of Fire champion Frankie Ferocious resumed from a spell on the 25tf of January, in his first start back for original trainer Ben Crosby after leaving the Jason Grimson barn. Frankie went like a busted banana, looking like a mere shadow of his former self when sitting 1-1 in the run then collapsing […]
Driver Derek Balle failed to give a sample when directed to at Alexandra Park last night too. He hasn’t been stood down, but an inquiry into the matter has been opened and adjourned. Derek Balle is Zev Meredith’s father-in-law. You remember Zev. He’s the driver who said he couldn’t come to the track after he […]
