Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The highly sought after Decron Horse Care Noel Smith Invitation Drivers Championship rounds were conducted at Horsham in Victoria today. It was an 8 race card. Guess how many runners on the program HRV Stewards pre-race sampled? Three. Their prices? $12.00 $31.00 $151.00 I guess it’s not only the NSW testing regime that’s a farce. […]
What is the name of the case? Racing Integrity Board & Harness Racing New Zealand v REDACTED Who is REDACTED? 8 harness racing industry participants or former participants. Their identities are protected by a suppression order issued by the Supreme Court. 6 of the people with name suppression are licensed or were formerly licensed. 5 […]
It seems that Mark Jones might have been doing a bit more than working his horses when he was spotted recently jogging up pacers on the sand at Woodend Beach, which it has to be said is some distance north east of his base at Burnham. Either that or Jones is a miracle worker, judging […]
On the 13th of October 2021 the Victorian Stewards conducted a random inspection of trot trainer Justin Torney;s premises. During their visit the Stewards caught Torney red handed in possession of 4 bottles of the banned growth hormone EquiGen. EquiGen contains a growth hormone called Somatotropin. Growth hormones are peptides that are just like EPO […]
A punter who consumed two “bags”of cocaine in a matter of hours at the races has sensationally claimed he is behind a failed drug test for a Mark Currie-trained sprinter, throwing the high-profile case wide open. In a stewards’ inquiry on Wednesday, Nigel Soden submitted a statutory declaration saying he petted the Currie-trained End Assembly […]
(Background note – Dr Lynn Hillyer is the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board’s Chief Veterinary Officer and Head of anti-doping) There have been multiple cobalt cases during Dr Hillyer’s tenure as Chief Veterinary Officer, but O’Brien’s violation goes to the heart of everything that’s wrong with her anti-doping programme Pedisnap ran four times as a three […]
POSTSCRIPT ● Pedisnap didn’t win another race for O’Brien after the cobalt violation. Hillyer’s investigation of the trainer was not intended to catch a cheat, but to cover-up for a cheat. ● In addition to the intelligence the Black Horse Newsletter received about the case in Australia, we have found out the name of the […]
We are alarmed to hear that everyone’s favorite woman basher, strangler, drug dealer, rip off artist, dope cheat cup day drencher Matthew Vanderkley, aka Anderson, aka whatever the Calvin Hunt is calling himself now, has moved to New Jersey to pursue his career in sourcing horse drugs for Kiwis and Australians, and pursue his career […]
Weddings are supposed to be joyful, happy things. Or at least that’s what Robbie Close and his lovely now wife Brooke thought when they tied the knot in Rangiora on Thursday. They didn’t count on the Canary and the Coke. It seems that our man Andrew Fitzgerald did as did drug dealers do and brought […]
Jonathon Kingston-Mayne is a trot trainer and driver, or was. He was also one of the official starters at Globe Derby. Andrew Benz was a leading SA owner of harness race horses. He once bought yearlings at a sale and paid for them with $70 000 in used banknotes that he was carrying in a […]
