Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There were 7 APG Gold Bullion finals held last night at Menangle. Each was worth a minimum of $50 000 in prizemoney. 6 runners were pre-race swabbed in 5 of the finals. In the other 2 finals only 2 horses were pre-race tested. The $1.35 favorite and winner in 1 of them My Ultimate Ronnie […]
Situation: 6/8/22 – Townsville Races Story: Officers from the QRIC Integrity Investigation Team conducted a without notice inspection of the stables of racehorse trainer C. Attard early on the morning of race day. Used syringes were discovered in a bucket. Trainer Attard told the IIT that the syringes were used on a horse that he […]
In New Zealand they don’t report which horses were pre-race swabbed and which were post-raced. They don’t report which swabs taken from horses were which, urine or blood. That’s a bit of a problem, because the most common and easiest to get performance enhancing drug is garden variety bi-carbonate of soda, which is administered in […]
Remember late last year when we reported on the large number of Stonewall Stud owned/Steve Telfer trained horses dying or having heart fibrillations on the track? Those stories triggered an RIB inquiry. The RIB said everything was sweet. Oh yeah. Race 7 McINTOSH CATERING PACE Show Video BORRISOKANE – hung outwards for a distance passing the 1150m […]
The margins are in lengths, not meters Some people say that the Dunn stable don’t use drugs. I say that’s utter bullshit. The RIB know it too, but can’t do a thing about it because their predecessor organization totally f**ked up. Bach last Friday night in Auckland is the perfect example. This horse had been […]
The highly sought after Decron Horse Care Noel Smith Invitation Drivers Championship rounds were conducted at Horsham in Victoria today. It was an 8 race card. Guess how many runners on the program HRV Stewards pre-race sampled? Three. Their prices? $12.00 $31.00 $151.00 I guess it’s not only the NSW testing regime that’s a farce. […]
What is the name of the case? Racing Integrity Board & Harness Racing New Zealand v REDACTED Who is REDACTED? 8 harness racing industry participants or former participants. Their identities are protected by a suppression order issued by the Supreme Court. 6 of the people with name suppression are licensed or were formerly licensed. 5 […]
It seems that Mark Jones might have been doing a bit more than working his horses when he was spotted recently jogging up pacers on the sand at Woodend Beach, which it has to be said is some distance north east of his base at Burnham. Either that or Jones is a miracle worker, judging […]
On the 13th of October 2021 the Victorian Stewards conducted a random inspection of trot trainer Justin Torney;s premises. During their visit the Stewards caught Torney red handed in possession of 4 bottles of the banned growth hormone EquiGen. EquiGen contains a growth hormone called Somatotropin. Growth hormones are peptides that are just like EPO […]
A punter who consumed two “bags”of cocaine in a matter of hours at the races has sensationally claimed he is behind a failed drug test for a Mark Currie-trained sprinter, throwing the high-profile case wide open. In a stewards’ inquiry on Wednesday, Nigel Soden submitted a statutory declaration saying he petted the Currie-trained End Assembly […]
