Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Up until a couple of weeks ago the Davey owned barn at Woodend Beach that is rented to trainer Matt Purvis was surrounded by big trees, which you might think would be a great thing for a Beach Boy, for no no-one can see what you are doing inside, especially those pesky RIB Stewards and […]
Foaled in 1997 and inducted into the Queensland Harness Racing Hall of Fame in 2008, Flashing Red was a star of the track in the mid-2000s. He won a string of feature events including the first of two New Zealand Cups in 2006. In the same year, he won the Ashburton Flying Stakes and Methven […]
Australia’s one time pin-up pacer Lochinvar Art has run his last race Down Under. Owner Kevin Gordon said the former Hunter and Victoria Cup hero would either be retired or be sent to North America to continue his career. The shock decision came after Lochinvar Art had a minor bleed and was stood down from […]
In the wake of our story about the deaths of three young pacer from the Stonewall Stud stable on NZ tracks in the past four months, and the potentially fatal incident involving a driver at another, the RIB yesterday announced that has launched an investigation into the matters, seeking to determine whether there were only […]
It was only four years ago that three of trainer Robert Dunn’s pacers in four different races returned positive swabs to the performance enhancing stimulant caffeine. Dunn was fined $7 000, a sentence most considered remarkably light. The year before Dunn had been fined $4000 after one of his horses returned a positive to the […]
Stewards Report: Trainer Mark Currie Date: 14th September 2022 Panel: Clayton Warren & Peter Lane Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) Stewards today concluded an inquiry into a report from the analyst that a blood sample taken from WHERE’S TEKAY NOW on the 2 August 2022 prior to it participating in the Toowoomba Official Trials returned […]
I have it confirmed that Mark Currie has thrown one positive swab recently, and that he copped a 4 grand fine. The mail is that he has a second one too. We are waiting to find out what the substance is. It will be interesting.
That is a good question. It was always a freight train coming. I know the answer. Do you?
Another drug cheat swept up in the FBI sting in the USA has gone down. Rick Dane is the one this time. He was a run of the mill type trainer who left the Mid-West of Illinois when the prize money collapsed, and then he moved to Coast and came to the conclusion that if […]
It’s easy. Pre-race swab them There was almost half a million dollars in stakes on offer at the Cairns Amateurs meeting yesterday, including the Cup worth $150k and the Sprint worth $75 000. Three horses were pre-race swabbed across the whole day. Their odds in the betting were $10, $14, and $51. Down south at […]
