Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The growth of veterinary work with non-sporting horses coincided with more reports on the adverse effects of bute in veterinary publications. In 1983, a report of toxicity in ponies described how high doses produced deaths and common side effects were swelling and ulceration of the mouth and gastrointestinal tract (MacAllister 1983). However, thoroughbred horses seemed to tolerate […]
At the height of the horsemeat scandal in 2013, Lees and Toutain (2013) wrote an editorial for Equine Veterinary Education aiming to demonstrate that “the illegal and erratic presence of trace amount residues of phenylbutazone in horse meat is simply not a public health issue” for humans (Editorial 2013, p. 273). Lees and Toutain reviewed the data on pharmacology, […]
Sicario was a once good horse that the owners gave up on after it got beaten 5 times in 4 months in claimers, and then ran 3 duck eggs in a row in the heats of the ID22 series. Some bailed out, and those that remained took it off perpetual top 3 Victorian trainer Brent […]
The trainer at the centre of this snowstorm is Phil Bobic, an upstanding young form equestrian champion turned highly respected pre-training expert and hobby racehorse trainer out on the Downs. Phil is the most unlikely bloke you would ever expect to be stuck in the middle of a cocaine scandal, and the bad swabs thrown […]
It doesn’t take any. All the stipes have to do is read peterproft.com. After all, we spotted the harp in Ric McMahon’s hand at trackwork in Birdsville last year, not the officials. It won’t stop them from sending a crazy numbers of race day and investigate stewards out into the middle of nowhere for 3 […]
To the amazement of everyone except those like me who have been represented by the Magic Man J.E. Murdoch K.C., late last week Jason Jill Grimson got a stay of his 12 month disqualification for king hitting another participant in the Creek Bar after the Blacks a Fake. The stay lasts for a maximum of […]
As predicted by us when we broke the story about Chynna Marston, Racing NSW have found her to be as guilty as sin. The particulars of the charges are shocking in these modern days, particularly as they relate to horses who she was trusted to care for and rehome, and was given money to do […]
There was $880 000 prizemoney on offer at the Albion Park trots last night. That is a hell of a lot of money for a harness racing meeting. It’s probably one of the single top 10 paying meetings on the annual calendar nation wide. Four of the races were worth $150 000. Two were worth […]
Cameron Ross is the Aung San Suu Kyi of NSW harness racing, a person persecuted in ways that boggle the mind. Two years ago a horse trained by the Victorian licensee Greg Norman threw a positive swab to the substance Dexamethasone. Norman got a $5000 fine with $4000 of it suspended, meaning that his real […]
Just last week we told you about Fletch Maguire, the walker from Kiwiland who came to OZ and improved by half the length of the strait. The once weak gutted cat from Aotearoa improved even more in the space of the past 7 days. Kiwi Horses That Suddenly Grow Legs – Summit and Bain Would […]
