Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
On the 5th of December last year trot trainer Emma Stewart was disqualified for 6 months after Stewards caught her race-day treating two horses by drenching them with something that she says was saline, but the Stewards say – quite correctly in my view – contained a perfomance enhancing substance. Stewart appealed the decision and […]
The mail is that Jack Trainor’s soon to be announced second positive swab involves another NZ import from the Souh Island, which shouldn’t surprise anyone, for plenty of the trainers there are dodgy and so are some of the vets. Apparently it took the world’s number 1 racing analytic facility the Hong Kong Racing Laboratory […]
As a New Zealand citizen myself – the only Geebung born, bred and raised Kiwi that I know – I fully understand the reluctance of the average All Blacks fan wearer to reach into their pocket and pull out a quid. Money is hard to come by in Aeroatoa so spending it hurts But when […]
During the week we made trenchant criticism 0f the HRNSW for seemingly failing to take tissue samples from the body of the pacer Saginaw after he was euthanised on track at Menangle following an alleged colic attack. Less than a week later, on the opposite side of country, another pacer had the terrible misfortune to […]
There have been rumors floating around for a long time that trainer Ben Smith was a glass pipe jockey. After his guilty plea yesterday to having had prohibited substances on board in his system when swabbed at his Kembla Grange stables on the 4th of April, you have to suspect that the rumors were right. […]
Prodigal Guiness was a moderately performer winner of 3 races from 18 starts before being purchaed by Australian interests and brought across the ditch, but he was a troupled pacer too, plagued by leg injuries. He had already had one 6 month breack from racing at home, and by the time he made his debut […]
Nigel McGrath is a cheat. By his own reckoning McGrath was giving his horses the banned substance propantheline bromide – a muscle relaxant that works like EPO by increasing the flow of blood – for two years during the Blue Magic scandal that resulted in 2 people dead, supposedly by suicide, although few believe the […]
Wasn’t this superb targeted pre-race swabbing (PRS) by HRNSW officials last night at Penrith? Only one favorite all night was swabbed. Neither of the odds on faves were among them. 5 of the 8 horses pre-race tested were at double figure odds, with 4 of the 8 at prices of $20.00 or longer. What the […]
There were six races at Port Pirie. The winners of only two of them were post race swabbed after their victories. Those two winners swabbed were trained by Ryan Hryhorec (1) and Leah Holman (1). None of Aaron Bain’s three winners was asked to give a post-race sample. That’s a bit of a worry, for […]
Drug addicted South Australian reinsman Kenny ‘The Gambler’ Rogers (pictured above) recently recorded his 5th positive swab to being under the influence of drugs – and his fourth for that drug being methamphetamine – at a harness meeting at which he was driving in professional races. Methamphetamine, commonl known as Ice – is utterly illegal […]
