Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
John and Sandra Galea are a Victorian husband and wife greyhound racing team, however they are not in a partnership. They each have dogs in their own names and switch them back and forward when things get hot, so that the family business can continue uninterrupted and unimpeded when things get hot. On the 18th […]
The latest is that after Aimee Edmonds unsuccessfully pointed the blame at former stable Stonewall training partner for the positive swab to what we can now confirm is bute thrown by one of their h0rses, they are now blaming the person who mixes the feed. Apparently Steve and Jill Stockman are going to issue a […]
The very strong mail is that a Stockman Stud owned horse trained in the North Island stable by Steve Telfer has thrown a positive swab. At the moment the horse is not known, but the substance is believed to be phenylbutazone or something similar. It will all come out next week. In the meantime stable […]
My great friend the the ever brilliant leading UK race writer, gallops lover, and anti-drugs in racing campaigner Will Jones has just released his latest edition of The Black Horse Newsletter. As usual it is an excellent and most informative read. Given the events of the weekend when 2 horses dies, it is a most […]
THE HORSES 4 June 2023 Trois Vallees collapsed and died in a five furlong flat handicap at Nottingham. The Racing Post’s results section stated: “Towards rear, weakening when faltered and fell over one furlong out, bled from the nose.” The Stewards Report confirmed the filly “bled from the nose before falling” and the BHA website […]
THE CONDITION Exercise-induced pulmonary haemorrhage (EIPH) refers to the presence of blood in the airways of the lungs when a horse undertakes intense exercise. At rest, the equine heart usually beats between 25-30 times per minute, but during exercise this increases to 220-230 beats. This high pressure from the heart substantially increases blood flow in […]
Fridge gas is called Xenon gas. We have hearing reports of its use as a performance enhancing drug for some time now. It mimics EPO. Horses who get hit with it fly. Sadly they also die. Finally a participant is prepared to come out and say it publicly. This is race that Arcano won on […]
Jason Servis was an American horse trainer who climbed his way right to the upper echelons of the sport. Unfortunately for him and for clean racing he did it by cheating. Performance enhancing drugs were Servis’s go, specifically the Australian invented and manufactured product SGF-1000, and a chemical structure altered to avoid drug tests old […]
It seems that another 2 young Kiwi drivers have returned positive swabs after the RIB conducted unannounced random drug testing at Cambridge on Thursday. We don’t know what substances they returned the positives to, but one of the drivers involved is Zev Meredith, who we gave a big wrap on this site for his driving […]
About 3 months ago a story written by Archie Butterfly was published on this website. In it we stated that 4 dogs trained by a Queensland greyhound trainer named Graham Hall had returned positive swabs to readily available over the counter amino acid called gamma- aminobutyric acid, or GABA for short. We were wrong. The […]
