Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Corrupt US vet Louis Grasso has rolled over and pleaded guilty to his role in producing and distributing drugs to cheating trainers to dope their horses with. The indictment of Grasso is very interesting indeed, and provides us with a short, sharp lesson in how to dope a gallops or harness racing horse. There are […]
Not only is Emma Stewart the greatest trot trainer ever to roam the earth, her partnership with formerly convicted and disqualified match cheat (overturned on appeal) sulky jockey Mark Pitt is the greatest trainer/driver combo in the long history of the harness racing sport. Together the pair have won 37 of their last 55 starts, […]
The 47 time winning open class pacer Mark Dennis had until last night held the 1800m track record at Globe Derby for five and a half years. He ran a mile rate of 1.53.5 in setting the mark. Encipher is a very, very talented 3-year-old filly trained by Emma Stewart. But she’s still a three-year-old […]
The inside word is that certain stables are using synthetic forms of tweaked EPO that cannot be detected by the current racing lab testing regime. When you look around the country – and you need to, because it is being used by trainers in the east and west – it is not hard to draw […]
Lord Bazalup was, until 5 days ago, quite possibly Australia’s slowest pacer. In 67 starts he’d won just twice, that sterling victory coming in January last year at Devonport while trained by Ben Yole, in a race where he fell in off the pole draw to win in an incredibly ordinary time of 2.02.8. Slow […]
How could Michael Stanley possibly have applied a poultice to the legs of his runner in the $210 000 APG Final Soho Alamasi two days prior to the race, and not have washed or worked the horse for two days leading into the event? Knowing that horses could not be treated with a poultice after […]
The word on Manchester Street is that Wooden Beach trainer Cam Jones has been DQ’d for 18 months after pleading guilty to administering gear to one of his horses prior to a race. Jones apparently copped the discount for pleading guilty, not that he really had any choice after the Canary (unregistered syndicator, trainer, and […]
Trinity Bannon had a lucrative career as a dual licensed jockey and trainer until she met Mr Meth Pipe, and took a puff and a pull. It was all downhill from there. Things usually are when the devil named Ice gets its grip on a girl, especially one haunted by the dark dreams of a […]
Muscle cells are factories that take the raw materials, oxygen and glucose, and turn them into energy. Training increases the ability of the body to deliver oxygen to the cells and increases muscle size. More efficiency and more power yield better athletic performance. Increasing the number of red blood cells in the body increases the ability to deliver […]
Victorian trot trainer Tim McGuigan is 56 years of age, and has been training since season 1986/87. Over the course of that 35 years his strike rate has been 8% the win and 22% the place. All of sudden in his golden years McGuigan is this year hitting winners at double the rate (17%) and […]
