Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Captain Ravishing has just run the fastest last quarter that veteran Victorian race called Dan Milecki has ever seen. 25.1 seconds he ran. His final half mile was run in 52.8 seconds. It is the fastest quarter he has run by more than 2 seconds. The fastest half and quarters that Lochinvar Art ever ran […]
Racing regulators kept hearing the reports: trainers were giving their horses a powerful performance-enhancing potion drawn from the backs of a type of South American frog. But for months postrace testing could not find the substance, a painkiller far more powerful than morphine. Then a lab in the Denver area tweaked its testing procedure, and […]
IT MAKES racehorses run through pain and is used in such tiny doses it can’t be detected. Sounds like the ultimate drug for racetrack dopers. And that’s just why racing authorities here jumped to attention when they heard snake venom might be closer to home than ever believed. Using a highly toxic substance to win […]
12/12/2020 8 Newcastle Sample Irregularity – Mrs K Morris – (BLACK EDITION) Levamisole Investigation continuing TBC 30/12/2020 1 Penrith Sample Irregularity – Mrs K Morris – (BLACK EDITION) Levamisole Investigation continuing TBC 09/03/2021 7 Leeton Sample Irregularity – Mr M Buckingham – (TARA LEEANN) Levamisole Adjourned 04/04/2022 23/03/2021 8 Menangle Sample Irregularity – Mr J […]
24 pre-race swabs were taken from runners at Canterbury yesterday. There were 23 swabs taken before the start at Sandown, Guess how many the QRIC sampled in Queensland? Three. The best way to deal with drugs in racing is to ignore it.’ What you don’t know can’t hurt you sweethearth. Ignorance is strength they say. […]
An analytical services plan, that will be more detailed than ever before, will determine the optimal number of samples to be collected in any given year. Urine, blood, saliva and hair will all be collected in a carefully targeted mix to ensure that the sample type that undergoes testing is the one best suited to […]
I had to read the QRIC’s media release announcing it’s new strategy to stop the drug cheats three times before I actually believed it. Swabbing the winners of every race is far too predictable the new QRIC Commissioner Shane Gillard has announced. The cheats know in advance that if they win a race their horse […]
Shocking new information has come to light about how far the jigger boys from Birdsville will go to cheat, and how they do it, and why they don’t get caught. They are hitting their horses with Ice. Not the cold stuff, the Class A drug. Ice is the street name for Methamphetamine, or meth. They […]
Further to the media statement issued this morning, QRIC has immediately suspended the licence of two Queensland thoroughbred participants. A Stewards inquiry remains ongoing. QRIC takes allegations of animal cruelty are taken very seriously. One of QRIC’s key functions is to safeguard the welfare of any animal involved in racing, and we will take all […]
Michael Kegley was the man who sold the banned drugs to the US trainers who have gone to jail. He is in prison too. Kegley was sentenced to 30 months inside. The court also ordered him to forfeit more than $3 million worth of the illegal products that he had stockpiled, and to pay a […]
