Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Leading WA harness racing trainer Mike Reed has been disqualified for 6 month for his horse Henty throwing a positive swab to Solatol, a human beta blocker used off label on horses as an antiarrhythmic to treat atrial fibrillation. Oddly, Reed did not claim environmental contamination, but rather put evidence before the Stewards ed that […]
Now that the Sydney carnival is over the worst kept secret in harness racing has finally been revealed. A Jason Grimson trained horse has thrown a positive swab. The horse in question is Delightful Star, which ran 2nd in the G3 Ladyship Cup at Melton on the 18th of October last year. The drug in […]
The recent case of harness racing trainer Craig Turnbull and his horse Star To Fall throwing a positive swab to Cotinine and Trans-3’-hydroxycotinine after winning a race at Wagga highlights the very real problem with the methods employed by Harness Racing NSW to test swabs. Cotinine and Trans-3’-hydroxycotinine are, as the name suggests, metabolites of […]
The impr0vements in time by horses trained by the cousins or cuzzies-in-law the nobody Mitch Dawson, the bum Matt Elkins, his ordinary performed wife Narissa Elkins nee McMullen, and her brother Pete and his bowler wife Chantal is just becoming ridiculous. How can you possibly explain what is going on in sensible terms? Tiger Band […]
We went back over the records to find out the number of positive swabs recorded in each harness racing State over the past 12 months. The results were astounding, albeit somewhat alarming. They say a picture tells a thousand words. What does this one say? Here at the facts that it presents. NSW has 29 […]
Trot Adam Ruggari has been outed for 3 years and 3 months after committing his 4th substance rule breach for one of his horses throwing a positive TCO2 swab. The bloke is clearly a slow learner isn’t he? What smart man milkshakes a horse with absolute confidence unless they are paying the Steward in charge […]
Tapentadol is a heavy duty painkiller, a synthetic form of heroin, which in itself is a synthetic type of morphine. Bob and Vinnie Knight’s success was born on morphine. Feel no pain, run pain free. Paul Tonkin had an excuse for horse throwing a positive swab to trace elements of the stuff. He had been […]
Mail just in is that Jason Grimson’s horses positive swab in Victoria is to …. … drum roll …. Morphine! Bet you London to a Brick on that he will claim its contamination in the feed. Poppy seeds for sure. Funny how it only got into his feed bag though and no-one else’s. And that […]
Remember we tipped you a couple of months ago that one of Jason Grimson’s horses had thrown a positive swab? Well the jungle drums are beating louder and louder that its true, although presently we have been unable to confirm it. We don’t what horse it, is or what the substance or drug may be, […]
In May 2024 NSW trot trainer Mark Callaghan’s horse The Cid threw a positive swab to harpagoside after winning a $100 000 race at Newcastle. It was Callaghan’s second substance rule breach offence. He was fined $3000. In the same year NSW trot trainer Michael Carroll had one horse throw three positives to harpagoside and […]
