Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
(Background note – Dr Lynn Hillyer is the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board’s Chief Veterinary Officer and Head of anti-doping) There have been multiple cobalt cases during Dr Hillyer’s tenure as Chief Veterinary Officer, but O’Brien’s violation goes to the heart of everything that’s wrong with her anti-doping programme Pedisnap ran four times as a three […]
POSTSCRIPT ● Pedisnap didn’t win another race for O’Brien after the cobalt violation. Hillyer’s investigation of the trainer was not intended to catch a cheat, but to cover-up for a cheat. ● In addition to the intelligence the Black Horse Newsletter received about the case in Australia, we have found out the name of the […]
We are alarmed to hear that everyone’s favorite woman basher, strangler, drug dealer, rip off artist, dope cheat cup day drencher Matthew Vanderkley, aka Anderson, aka whatever the Calvin Hunt is calling himself now, has moved to New Jersey to pursue his career in sourcing horse drugs for Kiwis and Australians, and pursue his career […]
Weddings are supposed to be joyful, happy things. Or at least that’s what Robbie Close and his lovely now wife Brooke thought when they tied the knot in Rangiora on Thursday. They didn’t count on the Canary and the Coke. It seems that our man Andrew Fitzgerald did as did drug dealers do and brought […]
Jonathon Kingston-Mayne is a trot trainer and driver, or was. He was also one of the official starters at Globe Derby. Andrew Benz was a leading SA owner of harness race horses. He once bought yearlings at a sale and paid for them with $70 000 in used banknotes that he was carrying in a […]
Betterzipit’s New Zealand racing record. It’s not that flash is it? On Saturday night Betterzipit, a former reasonably well performed but far from top class Kiwi import trained by Jason ‘Jill’ Grimson, line up against a bunch of really good pacers, including two who had run placings in separate fair-dinkum Inter Dominions (definition: ones run […]
This is the list of comparative sentences tabled in Sheryl Wigg’s appeal to the High Court against the sentence imposed on the amateur driver and trainer after an undercover surveillance team from the RIB caught her administering a paste made up of turmeric and black pepper to one of her horses on the day of […]
This extract is taken from the recent NZ High Court decision in the matter of Wigg v Racing Integrity Board. The Richards referred to is Jamie Richards. Te Akau Racing’s trainer after and before Mark Walker. Richards was an excellent trainer with an unblemished record – according to the Judge – who just so happened […]
So Te Akau Racing have identified the cause of the positive swab its Group 1 winner Tokyo Tycoon threw after winning the Sistema Stakes, and they have fingered the offender. It was a strapper of course. It always is. The strapper has met with the Stewards and confessed all. She made a mistake. Trust Te […]
Wayne Walters is widely credited as the trainer of Torbek, the horse that they famously pulled off a massive plunge on at Seymour in April 1979. That’s about as true as the story that the then council clerk and now dodgy Cairns motel owner Brian Jorgenson was the mastermind behind the plunge. It was all […]
