Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Harness Racing NSW yesterday published the results of all urine testing for the presence of cobalt conducted since the 31st of May 2022. While it is admirable of HRNSW to share this information publicly, and the results make for interesting reading, they raise more questions about the swabbing and sample testing regime being employed in […]
Six semi-finals of the rich Breeders Challenge series were run at Menangle last night. Only two favorites in the six races were pre-race swabbed. They were the only runners under double figure odds swabbed. The average price of the 12 horses swabbed in the semi-finals was $72.00. And HRNSW call this a world class integrity […]
Harness Racing NSW’s swabbing regime again came under the spotlight in the semi-finals of the rich 2YO Breeders Challenge series at Menangle on Saturday night. Only eight horses were pre-race swabbed across the 4 semi finals. Just two of them were favorites, with both being trained interstate, Path To Greatness in NSW and Sanchez in […]
In June last year GRV Stewards conducted a without notice visit to the kennels of Victorian greyhound trainer Raymond ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd. They wanted to talk to Pretty Boy about a positive swab that one of his dogs had thrown to Testosterone Propionate, a banned anabolic steroid. Pretty Boy feigned shock when told about the […]
The NSW Harness Racing Appeals Panel (HRAP) has cut Tamworth trainer Dean Chapple’s disqualification for a positive swab to Meloxicam from 24 months down to 18, but not before telling the repeat drugs in racing offender that he was full of crap and sending him on his way with a spray. Chapple’s tale that the […]
Leading NSW trot trainer Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainor has lost his challenge at the NSW Harness Racing Appeals Panel against his 6 month disqualification for presenting Chubby Checker to race with the prohibited substance levamisole in its system. The Appeals Panel’s decision is yet to be handed down so we can’t elaborate on the reasons for […]
For a long time NZ trot trainer Craig Ferguson was no good. There were his win strike rates: 2017 – 2.6% 2018 – 8.1% 2019 – 5.8% 2020 – 2.9% Then all of a sudden in mid-2021 something happened, and all of a sudden Craig Ferguson’s strike rate turned deadly. 2021 – 16.7% 2022 – […]
This is the gear that the newly developed swab tests for EPO and human growth hormone such as those used by the jailed American cheats are going to detect. There is a great mystique around EPO, but really it’s quite simple and easy to get, as long as you know the right doctor. EPO Injection […]
Read this below. It’s the conclusions of the Racing Australia funded research team of scientists that has cracked the Da Vinci code by developing a simple, affordable and effective test for the presence of EPO and growth hormones in a horse’s system. The tests are real, and they’re here. Be afraid cheats, be very afraid […]
