Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
24 pre-race swabs were taken from runners at Canterbury yesterday. There were 23 swabs taken before the start at Sandown, Guess how many the QRIC sampled in Queensland? Three. The best way to deal with drugs in racing is to ignore it.’ What you don’t know can’t hurt you sweethearth. Ignorance is strength they say. […]
An analytical services plan, that will be more detailed than ever before, will determine the optimal number of samples to be collected in any given year. Urine, blood, saliva and hair will all be collected in a carefully targeted mix to ensure that the sample type that undergoes testing is the one best suited to […]
I had to read the QRIC’s media release announcing it’s new strategy to stop the drug cheats three times before I actually believed it. Swabbing the winners of every race is far too predictable the new QRIC Commissioner Shane Gillard has announced. The cheats know in advance that if they win a race their horse […]
Shocking new information has come to light about how far the jigger boys from Birdsville will go to cheat, and how they do it, and why they don’t get caught. They are hitting their horses with Ice. Not the cold stuff, the Class A drug. Ice is the street name for Methamphetamine, or meth. They […]
Further to the media statement issued this morning, QRIC has immediately suspended the licence of two Queensland thoroughbred participants. A Stewards inquiry remains ongoing. QRIC takes allegations of animal cruelty are taken very seriously. One of QRIC’s key functions is to safeguard the welfare of any animal involved in racing, and we will take all […]
Michael Kegley was the man who sold the banned drugs to the US trainers who have gone to jail. He is in prison too. Kegley was sentenced to 30 months inside. The court also ordered him to forfeit more than $3 million worth of the illegal products that he had stockpiled, and to pay a […]
There were just three horses pre-race swabbed at the Gold Coast gallops meeting on Saturday. Two of them were in the same race, number three. They were Argyle Belle which started at $10.00 and ran 6th, and Value Abbey which started at $51.00 and ran to its price by being tailed out 15 lengths at […]
There were 35 pre-race swabs taken from runners at the Rosehill meeting yesterday. Victoria took 32. South Australia pre-race swabbed 23. How about in Queensland you ask? They took just 5. Yes that’s correct, only 5 runners on the whole card in the 3rd biggest racing state in the land were pre-race swabbed so that […]
Where’s Daddy used to be trained by trained by the convicted criminal Mitchell Kerr – the man who sold horses that didn’t exist, and then charged his clients imaginary fees for the upkeep the non-horse never incurred – and driven by Matthew Anderson, the convicted criminal who deals drugs and bashes and strangles women. The […]
About seven months ago we wrote a story about a horse called Mark Dunnett, who couldn’t a yard when it was in the barn of Courage Under Fire’s trainer B. Negus, but turned into Batman when transferred to the Woodend Beach stables of Lurch Dunn. In his first six runs for Lurch the 26 starts […]
