Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Trainer Paul Tonkin must be the most hard done by man in harness racing. He has just been hit with an 18 month disqualification by Harness Racing NSW Stewards after one of his horses threw a positive swab to the potent painkiller Tapentadol, a drug that he takes himself under prescription to treat chronic pain […]
Victorian gallops trainer Kane Harris has been suspended for six months by the Victorian Racing Tribunal after one of his horses threw a positive swab to dexamethasone. In was Harris’s fifth positive in 8 years, three of them for the same drug. Dexamethasone is a corticosteroid used to treat inflammation and pain. It has serious […]
By Chris Barrett November 24, 2024 — 5.00am Harness racing is embroiled in a drug-testing scandal after two up-and-coming drivers from Sydney submitted urine samples that were found with all but mathematical certainty to have come from the same person. In a bombshell case like few others in Australian sport and racing, Jack Brown, 20, […]
HARNESS Racing New South Wales advises that the licences of Neville Hargraves and Paul Sapio have been suspended pursuant to Australian Harness Racing Rule (AHRR) 183 after Stewards commenced an investigation into a report received that WHYIMAN had been stomach tubed or attempted to be stomach tubed prior to its engagement enroute to the Menangle […]
HRNSW advises that an interim suspension has today been imposed on the licences of Jack Brown and Lucas Rando after DNA analysis was conducted by the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine on the urine samples provided by both drivers at the Goulburn Harness Racing Club meeting on 21 October 2024. The Victorian Institute of Forensic […]
If you are going to pull over to drench your horse on the way to the races, then the Ampol Service Centre at Pheasant’s Nest isn’t the place to do it, for it gets a thousand cars every hour stopping there and the odds are that one of them might be a Steward, the last […]
NSW driver Jack Brown was stood down on Monday for failing to provide a urine sample when required to by the Stewards who were random drug testing at the Goulburn meeting. It turns out though that Brown did actually provide a sample, one that was of less volume than outlined in the collection guidelines provided […]
Anything HRV can do, Harness Racing NSW can do better. Or worse, depending on which lens you are looking at the Menangle pre-race swab (PRS) regime from. Only 1 of the favorites on the 8 race card in Sydney was PRS. That Seaton Grima trained runner was also the only 1 of the 4 odds-on […]
Every race on Breeders Crown Finals night at Melton on Saturday was a Group 2 carrying prizemoney of between $50 000 – $100 000. You would expect HRV’s swabbing regime employed on such a program to be at least the same level of class, of preferably for it to be Group 1 standard. Instead it […]
Goulburn trainer Anthony Warren was discovered to have four sealed syringes in his float at Canberra on Cup Day. Warren had only a single runner on the program, the $26 shot Wegotabetterhoffa in the last race. Somewhat oddly the Stewards decided not to take pre-race swabs from the horse after the syringes were detected. That […]
