Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
(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 […]
