Category: Drugs in Racing

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EPO, No, No, No – Gotcha! – Part 1 – Aussie Scientists Work Out a Simple Way to Swab For EPO – Be Afraid Cheats, Be Very, Very Afraid

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A quintet of Aussie scientists including Dr Adam Cawley from the Australian Racing Forensic Laboratory have cracked the Da Vinci Code. They’ve found a fast, cheap and accurate way to test swabs for EPO. Their test detects  follistatin (FST), growth hormone 1 (GH1), insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF1), and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL1RN) too, which pretty […]

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EPO, No No No – Gotcha! – Part 3 – You’re Sprung Slimeballs

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The term ‘gene doping’ is used to describe the use of any unauthorized gene therapy techniques. We developed a test for five likely candidate genes for equine gene doping: EPO, FST, GH1, IGF1, and ILRN1. The test is based on real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and includes separate screening and confirmation assays that detect different unique targets in each transgene. For […]

Drugs in Racing Racing The Gallops Trainers

EPO, No No No – Gotcha! – Part 3 – A Bit About the Science

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The Australian horseracing industry is the second largest Thoroughbred racing and breeding industry internationally, contributing over $9.1 billion Australian dollars (AUD) value to the national economy [1]. At least one third of the contribution to this figure comes from wagering. For consumers to invest in wagering with confidence, it is essential to maintain a fair gambling […]

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HRV’s Integrity Management Regime is a Farce – If These People Were in Charge of Airport Security, There’d Be Planes Blowing Up in Mid-Air All Over Australia

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On one of the biggest nights of the year in Victorian harness racing, when the horses are competing to win $1.5 million in prizemoney, guess how many runners on the 12 race card were pre-race swabbed? Eleven. One per race excluding race nine, when none were. How many of Emma Stewart’s 35 runnefrs were pre-race […]

Drugs in Racing The Punt The Tips

T.R. ‘Stonefish’ Vince Wins the VicBred Super Series – Don’t Say We Didn’t Tell You

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This morning we told you about Timothy Robin Vince, and how the rogue who is NZ’s biggest punter was becoming increasingly aligned with Australian stables that were having huge runs of success. Stonefish venom was mentioned in the discussion, a strange and often quite deadly substance that we speculated was being used as a performance […]

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Stonefish, Syndicates, Skullduggery and Super Series Finals – T.R. Vince is into Them All

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The whispers are getting louder that certain Australian trainers are using a tweaked synthetic facsimile of stonefish venom sourced from Asia to supercharge their stable runners, and an unexpected – although unsurprising – name from New Zealand keeps popping up among the talk as the source. Timothy Robin Vince. We have written about Vince several […]

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Perhaps the Answer to the Recent Spate of Positive Swabs to Levamisole, Acepromazine and Lidocaine Lies in SGF-1000, the Drug Used in the US Doping Scandal That Sent All Those People to Jail

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Industrial Labs also found evidence of acepromazine, levamisole, detomidine, pyrilamine, lidocaine, MEGX, xylazine, and caffeine in an SGF-1000 sample they tested – all of which are regulated in post-race samples due to their potential to impact performance. The company had apparently asked Industrial to test the product and touted the lack of banned substances to racing regulators, […]

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Who Ever Imagined That Emma Stewart’s Horses Were Scared of Needles?

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Not long after we published our story about the missing Stewards Report from last Saturday night’s VicBred semi-finals at Melton, it finally went up. We learnt from it this. Emma Stewart has 39 starters in 11 races, with multiple runners in 10 of them. Only 3 of her 39 runners are pre-race swabbed. Only one […]

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