Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Here is our brief and admittedly opinionated commentary on the HRNSW March Integrity Updates and Information published yesterday on the national harness racing website at https://www.harness.org.au/media-room/news-article/?news_id=64804 Read on and see what you think. Clayton Harmey copped a positive swab to Levamisole after winning a race at Newcastle in January. We tipped you about that […]
The case of New Zealand co-trainers Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott decided last week by the Racing Integrity Board merely serves to highlight the absolute absurdity of the current substance rules and testing regimes applied by racing authorities on both sides of the Tasman Sea. O’Sullivan and Scott were stripped of their win in the […]
There is increasing speculation in racing circles that if Gillon McLachlan is proven to have knowledge of the AFL’s drug testing cover-up practices – and to date he hasn’t been – it may cost him the long-mooted Chairman’s role at Racing Victoria. Racing is a sport that is dependent both on being free of drugs, […]
This is a previously unpublished portion of the transcript of evidence from the 2015 Sam Kavanagh cobalt inquiry. It raises huge questions about the integrity of a number of people across both codes of racing, and – if the witness’s evidence were true, which we are not asserting they are – casts several people in […]
There is trend emerging in NSW harness racing whereby pacers that leave the Seaton Grima stable suddenly lose two legs. Four starts back Saginaw won at Menangle in 1.52.5. It then ran down the track three starts ago in a higher class race at Menangle, but still ran a similar [personal time of 1.52.6. After […]
TCO2 Levels The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission has identified the following horses that have recorded a TCO2 reading above 35.1 mmol/L. This information will remain online for 28 days from the publishing date. All horses notified on this list (including past notifications) are subject to new measures requiring trainers to present them to the stewards for pre-race […]
Haven’t Naomi Kerr’s horses started flying again since NSW harness rogue Shannon Wonson started taking after dark drives from his workplace at Darren Weir’s pre-training center in Baringhup up to Mildura to visit friends. It’s quite remarkable really. https://www.hrnsw.com.au/news/1745/mr-shannon-wonson–recommencement-of-disqualification Kerr had runners in 6 races at Broken Hill. She won 4 of them, and ran […]
When’s the last time you saw an unraced early season 2-year-old run home its last quarter in 26.2 seconds at its first ever race track trial, and in driving rain and all? Like never. Until Tuesday night when Emma Stewart’s Poster Boy colt The Highlight Reel did it. This youngster who is yet to debut […]
The BHA and the IHRB have announced a new joint anti-doping initiative which they claim will prove they are world leaders in the fight against doping. They claim that in recent days their staff have visited 14 different training yards in Britain and Ireland to take 250 samples from 120 horses entered at the Cheltenham […]
The retention barn at Menangle is used to house runners in major races under security and supervision from midday on the Thursday of the race until 2 hours before start time on the Saturday night. It’s supposed to ensure that none of the horses are doped within 60 hours of the race. That would be […]
