Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Jason Grimson won fiver races in a row with Outside Fighter during August and September, before the wheels fell off and it put in a pair of back to back shockers, the most recent a tailed off last at Menangle a fortnight ago. Outside Fighter got sacked by Grimson after that run, and was shipped […]
Well well well. So last years NZ Cup run gutted Swayzee so much that they pulled him out of the Friday FFA (after they tried to take advantage of the NZ TAB’s no deduction for scratchings on Fixed Odds bets policy to pull a rort on the punt). And now they want to duck out […]
Canadian trainer Richard Moreau wasn’t the only one who was disqualified for 10 years after new Australian developed tests sprung him having spiked up his stable star Funtime Bayama with synthetic EPO. The horse’s driver Sylvain Filion was too. Filion, who drove the winners of $6 million in prizemoney last year earning him $300 000 […]
Harness trainer Richard Moreau was Canada’s equivalent of Emma Stewart or more recently Jason Grimson, a seeming unstoppable force of nature who had dominated the sport for more than a decade, training 6000+ winners that earned more than $60 million prizemoney, and winning the Canadian trainer of the year title for 10 consecutive years. Last […]
HRNSW Stewards blitzed Jason Grimson’s stables last week, turning up 5 days in a row to conduct out of competition swabbing of the trainer’s runners on Saturday night. The theory behind the blitz was that a certain substance that Stewards believe is being used by some harness trainers as a performance enhancer has to be […]
Hey Archie Help a bloke out here & tell me how a trainer charged with animal welfare breaches can be given a stay of proceedings that allows them to continue to train? The parasite I refer to is Nicholas Howlett (pictured), the same trainer who raced a dog with cocaine in it’s system and tried […]
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” — Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear “There is a fourth. Leap To Fame.” – Reverend Archibald J. Butterfly, Jason Without the Juice Jason Grimson has no difficulty talking a big game. […]
Emma Stewart – who used to be Clayton Tonkin trainer in race books after she was Emma Stewart trainer and before she was again – is Victoria’s most successful trainer ever, or Clayton Tonkin is, or one of them is anyway. They’ve both got form for using performance enhancing drugs (PED’s) on their horses, Tonkin […]
We wrote a few days ago about how Jason Grimson had been the target of multiple recent without notice stable inspections by Stewards coming to out of competition swab his horses, particularly 4-6 day out from race day window withing which wise men say a sharpie must give their gee-gees the good gear. Imagine for […]
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 […]
