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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. […]
The Jason Warren trained Grand Pierro had traveled down from Mornington to race in the Adelaide Cup. Four days before the Cup, on the Thursday, the Stewards took out of competition samples from the horse. On Cup Day on the Monday it was inspected by Stewards in the morning. No marks, scratches, puncture wounds or […]
What is it with Woodlands Stud’s owners and positive swabs? We told you yesterday about how a pacer owned by Dr Andrew Grierson, part-owner of the stud, had thrown a positive swab that will come to public attention soon, and we told you the week before that about a horse of Cran and Chrissy Dalgety’s […]
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 […]
