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Emma Stewart – who used to be Clayton Tonkin trainer in race books after she was Emma Stewart trainer and before she was again – is Victoria’s most successful trainer ever, or Clayton Tonkin is, or one of them is anyway. They’ve both got form for using performance enhancing drugs (PED’s) on their horses, Tonkin […]
We wrote a few days ago about how Jason Grimson had been the target of multiple recent without notice stable inspections by Stewards coming to out of competition swab his horses, particularly 4-6 day out from race day window withing which wise men say a sharpie must give their gee-gees the good gear. Imagine for […]
NSW driver Jack Brown was stood down on Monday for failing to provide a urine sample when required to by the Stewards who were random drug testing at the Goulburn meeting. It turns out though that Brown did actually provide a sample, one that was of less volume than outlined in the collection guidelines provided […]
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 […]
