Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Jeff Gural, managing partner of New Meadowlands Racetrack, which primarily offers Standardbred racing, announced Nov. 3 that the track has excluded 33 trainers while it conducts its own investigation into the trainers identified by a federal investigation as either having purchased prohibited substances for their racehorses or had their horses test positive for a banned […]
A month ago we broke a story about trainer Wayne Potter having thrown a positive swab to a banned substance with his start juvenile trotter The Locomotive after a big win at Melton. We received a call from a person connected to the stable advising that our story wasn’t right, so based on that information […]
How strange it is that the rise of NZ South Island trainer Craig Ferguson coincides so neatly with the fall of his close friend Cam Jones, the disgraced drug cheat currently serving a long stint in the sin bin. Up until Jones got caught red handed on race day throwing a syringe in a bin […]
Former jockey turned trackwork rider Bruce Powell is clearly a slow learner. This week Powell was dealt with after returning his 3rd positive swab to the leafy green substance cannabis following tests conducted at early morning work at Deagon in September, following on from his most recent breach in late 2017 at Esk when he […]
While the all the talk in the greyhound world and wider is the belated life disqualification of Anthony Bullock from the sport and the circumstances leading to the penalty, including the reasons as to why it took so long, there is another recent case in Tasmania that highlights the laxity of integrity management in the […]
The Wooden Beach magic worked again. Pure Courage, the hitherto walker that we told you last night had been backed as if unbeatable in the 1st at Addington today after having been transferred to beach trainer Ben Hope just 3 1/2 weeks ago, did as predicted and landed the money. The horse ran 5 seconds […]
Another positive to cocaine in Toowoomba and this time it’s the right hand man of the most incredibly improved trainer in the country Corey Geran. Cameron Creevey is regarded as family by Corey Geran as recently posted on Facebook for Creevey’s birthday. Creevey is Gerans top dog trackwork rider, stablehand, strapper and reading between the […]
What’s behind this recent spate of positive swabs to the sheep drench that metabolises into a stimulant Levamisole? Why are so many horses throwing positive swabs to the stuff? It’s unknown to the authorities, because they are not demanding to know and no-one is telling. It seems unlikely that trainers are giving it to their […]
Young trainer Cameron Ross seemed to have been terribly harshly treated when he copped a 17 month disqualification after one of his horses threw a positive swab to Dexamethasone, an anti-inflammatory drug. Ross was a first offender, and stuffed up by nebulising his charge with Dexapent – a drug containing the substance – within the […]
Horses swabbed pre-race: LOST IN TRANSIT, CUSACK, EAGLES CRAG, KING FRANKEL, BONNY EZRA, MILITARY GAMBLER. There were 1o races at Eagle Farm yesterday, yet only 6 horses were pre-race swabbed. Only the winners were post-race swabbed. Why? What sort of circus is it when so few swabs are taken at a Saturday metropolitan meeting? It […]
