Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
On Tuesday morning officers from the QRIC Compliance Assurance Team (CAT) rocked up to the stables of trainer Ryan Tyrell to conduct an inspection of his two runners at Gatton later in the day. What they found was a pair of horses looking like junkies who’d run out of veins in their arm and resorted […]
There was a curious one coming out of the Goulburn harness meeting on Monday, All of the drivers at the meeting were put on the bag and alcohol tested. Selected drivers were subjected to drug testing, Young reinsperson Jack Brown – who had been at a mates bucks party on Saturday night and reportedly had […]
This morning we emailed Harness Racing NSW CEO Peter Buckman with questions regarding the cobalt test results published on the HRA website, and he was quick to reply. We thank him for that. The CEO advises that all urine samples collected by HRNSW are screened to for cobalt. With respect to why only 453 of […]
Harness Racing NSW yesterday published the results of all urine testing for the presence of cobalt conducted since the 31st of May 2022. While it is admirable of HRNSW to share this information publicly, and the results make for interesting reading, they raise more questions about the swabbing and sample testing regime being employed in […]
Six semi-finals of the rich Breeders Challenge series were run at Menangle last night. Only two favorites in the six races were pre-race swabbed. They were the only runners under double figure odds swabbed. The average price of the 12 horses swabbed in the semi-finals was $72.00. And HRNSW call this a world class integrity […]
Harness Racing NSW’s swabbing regime again came under the spotlight in the semi-finals of the rich 2YO Breeders Challenge series at Menangle on Saturday night. Only eight horses were pre-race swabbed across the 4 semi finals. Just two of them were favorites, with both being trained interstate, Path To Greatness in NSW and Sanchez in […]
In June last year GRV Stewards conducted a without notice visit to the kennels of Victorian greyhound trainer Raymond ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd. They wanted to talk to Pretty Boy about a positive swab that one of his dogs had thrown to Testosterone Propionate, a banned anabolic steroid. Pretty Boy feigned shock when told about the […]
The NSW Harness Racing Appeals Panel (HRAP) has cut Tamworth trainer Dean Chapple’s disqualification for a positive swab to Meloxicam from 24 months down to 18, but not before telling the repeat drugs in racing offender that he was full of crap and sending him on his way with a spray. Chapple’s tale that the […]
Leading NSW trot trainer Jack ‘Turbo’ Trainor has lost his challenge at the NSW Harness Racing Appeals Panel against his 6 month disqualification for presenting Chubby Checker to race with the prohibited substance levamisole in its system. The Appeals Panel’s decision is yet to be handed down so we can’t elaborate on the reasons for […]
For a long time NZ trot trainer Craig Ferguson was no good. There were his win strike rates: 2017 – 2.6% 2018 – 8.1% 2019 – 5.8% 2020 – 2.9% Then all of a sudden in mid-2021 something happened, and all of a sudden Craig Ferguson’s strike rate turned deadly. 2021 – 16.7% 2022 – […]
