Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Arsenic is not regarded as performance enhancing, but its presence at levels above the threshold is regarded as likely to be injurious to the health and welfare of a horse. That’s what the Adjudicative Committee of the New Zealand Racing Integrity Board said last week in the case of the Stewards v Ian Jamieson. What […]
Scott Brunton has been Tasmanian racing’s problem child for a long time now. He has been arrested on drug and firearm charges. Convicted of three counts of meth possession on a plea deal. Doped a Tassie Derby winner that got disqualified after returning a positive. Ripped his workers off. Rorted the Tax Office. You name […]
Longfellow was a promising looking pacer in the early part of his career under the care of Todd Rattray in Tasmania, but he never for a second looked like a Derby or Inter Dominion sort of horse. He had 12 starts for Rattray for just one win by 1.1 metres over a 9 start maiden, […]
Exclusive: An ice time bomb is about to explode with unsuspecting homeowners discovering their properties are so badly contaminated with the drug they require hundreds of thousands of dollars in repairs to stop people getting sick. As many as 275,000 people in Australia smoke ice, but most insurance does not cover damage caused by them […]
John and Sandra Galea are a Victorian husband and wife greyhound racing team, however they are not in a partnership. They each have dogs in their own names and switch them back and forward when things get hot, so that the family business can continue uninterrupted and unimpeded when things get hot. On the 18th […]
The latest is that after Aimee Edmonds unsuccessfully pointed the blame at former stable Stonewall training partner for the positive swab to what we can now confirm is bute thrown by one of their h0rses, they are now blaming the person who mixes the feed. Apparently Steve and Jill Stockman are going to issue a […]
The very strong mail is that a Stockman Stud owned horse trained in the North Island stable by Steve Telfer has thrown a positive swab. At the moment the horse is not known, but the substance is believed to be phenylbutazone or something similar. It will all come out next week. In the meantime stable […]
My great friend the the ever brilliant leading UK race writer, gallops lover, and anti-drugs in racing campaigner Will Jones has just released his latest edition of The Black Horse Newsletter. As usual it is an excellent and most informative read. Given the events of the weekend when 2 horses dies, it is a most […]
THE HORSES 4 June 2023 Trois Vallees collapsed and died in a five furlong flat handicap at Nottingham. The Racing Post’s results section stated: “Towards rear, weakening when faltered and fell over one furlong out, bled from the nose.” The Stewards Report confirmed the filly “bled from the nose before falling” and the BHA website […]
THE CONDITION Exercise-induced pulmonary haemorrhage (EIPH) refers to the presence of blood in the airways of the lungs when a horse undertakes intense exercise. At rest, the equine heart usually beats between 25-30 times per minute, but during exercise this increases to 220-230 beats. This high pressure from the heart substantially increases blood flow in […]
