Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
My friend and colleague Will Jones is one of the world’s pre-eminent writers about drugs in horse racing. A long-time journalist and an internationally published author, he has seen what goes on in the murky world from both the inside and the out, and tells it brilliantly. Will writes a quarterly publication called The Black […]
At Globe Derby on Monday a horse called Giftedfromtheheart was the medium of a nation-wide betting plunge that saw it frim from $101 into $2.90. The moment that the betting opened they started coming out of trees to back the horse, and the money didn’t stop until they jumped. For a moment no-one could understand why. […]
There were 8 races run at Menangle yesterday afternoon, and this eight favourites. Four of them were odds on. Not one of the eight horses was pre-race blood tested. The average price of the runners that were swabbed prior to the race was $32.60. Below are the odds of the fave in betting in each […]
Nothing should surprise you anymore when it comes to racing integrity in QLD under the watch of Chief Steward Chadwick, but still for us true believers they do. A ten race TAB card was run at Rockhampton last Thursday. It was the only meeting on in Queensland that day. Rockhampton is renowned as a hotbed […]
Methamphetamine – Ice – is the scourge of societies around the world. It is an ugly, evil, foul tasting drug that gets hold of a person in an instant, and brings no joy, only wreckage and ruin, and I am saying that not as some Christian wowser, but as a person who has enjoyed recreational […]
Kowhai Shadow is a Kiwi pacing mare that until a week ago had started 46 times over three seasons and only won twice, both on the grass. One of them was at downtown Amberley, the little town of 1800 famous for building a statue of war hero Charles Upham outside the council building, even though […]
For a long time now we have been telling you that it takes three weeks to get a horse up and going on a three-pronged drug cheating regime that transforms them from a camel into Superman. It used to be three and a half weeks, but the synthetic EPO formula has been tweaked, and now […]
The seeming conga line of crooks who were caught red handed by the FBI giving themselves up talking openly about their corrupt and utterly disgraceful criminal horse doping deeds has had yet another dancer join the queue of dirty, low dogs snaking their way straight to jail, without collecting $200 or passing go. Who needs […]
You may find this hard to believe, but it is true. Whether it’s straight and true is another question all together. At his past 51 drives for the Emma Stewart stable, reinsman Mark Pitt has driven 38 winners. That’s a winning strike rate of 75%, or three of every four. This isn’t a fluke streak; […]
Jeff Gural owns and operated the world famous Meadowlands Paceway. He is the man responsible for driving the FBI to investigate drug cheating in racing. As we all know, they have had a huge amount of success, and many of dopers and dope sellers who defraud their colleagues, the punters, and the sport are now […]
