Those Magnificent Flying Men and Their Swabbing Regimes – Part 1 – The Madcap Plan
Queensland’s integrity boss Shane Gillard has spearheaded a new plan to catch dopers and cheats in the racing industry. In the past, the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission has sometimes been accused of not doing enough to stamp out wrongdoing. More than two years ago, a group of frustrated Queensland trainers spoke out with their concerns that cheats were […]
Those Magnificent Flying Men and Their Swabbing Regimes – Part 2 – The Reality
Well so much for the QRIC Commissioner Shane Gillard’s grand plan to use an innovative swabbing regime to crack down on drug cheating in Queensland racing. There were 10 races at the main Sunshine State metropolitan meeting at the Sunshine Coast yesterday, with an average of $95 000 prizemoney on offer in each. Only 6 […]
Correspondence From a Reader re the Scourge of PED’s
Here is some information that has come my way lately that I thought you might find interesting. A vet informed me that these trainers who suddenly turn fast but limited horses around and get them to put up amazing performances are using short acting chemically restructured fast acting peptides that work like EPO and other […]
Grimson Magic Put to the Test – Is Jill About to Destroy the Honest Trot Lover’s Dream?
Want to see how good Jason Grimson is? Or how bad, depending on what way you look at it? Then make sure you watch the time honoured Group 3 Junior Free For All at Addington on Cup Day this Tuesday. Since arriving in New Zealand last week Grimson has gained a new horse, a lowly […]
Isons and Elders Hearing on Wednesday
Wednesday is the day for the hearing int0 the recent incident violent incident involving members of the Ison and Elder families at Tamworth. The word is that each of father Brian and sons Bryan and Darren Elder in the blue corner, and father and son duo Andrew and Tom Ison in the red, are required […]
Meadowlands to Exclude, Investigate 33 Horsemen – Why Jeff Gural is the Exemplar of the Fight Against Drugs in Racing
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 […]
Apology Retracted
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 […]
One Mate Falls, Another Mate Rises – Ain’t Life a Funny Thing?
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 […]
It’s Time to Give Up the Bongs
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 […]