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In order to confirm or refute our contention that under CEO Matthew Isaacs watch Harness Racing Victoria is grossly failing punters and participants by operating a sub-standard swabbing regime, we decided to crunch the numbers. To do so we used the week of the Vicbred Super Series finals in the year before Isaacs took up […]
On one of the biggest nights of the year in Victorian harness racing, when the horses are competing to win $1.5 million in prizemoney, guess how many runners on the 12 race card were pre-race swabbed? Eleven. One per race excluding race nine, when none were. How many of Emma Stewart’s 35 runnefrs were pre-race […]
This morning we told you about Timothy Robin Vince, and how the rogue who is NZ’s biggest punter was becoming increasingly aligned with Australian stables that were having huge runs of success. Stonefish venom was mentioned in the discussion, a strange and often quite deadly substance that we speculated was being used as a performance […]
The whispers are getting louder that certain Australian trainers are using a tweaked synthetic facsimile of stonefish venom sourced from Asia to supercharge their stable runners, and an unexpected – although unsurprising – name from New Zealand keeps popping up among the talk as the source. Timothy Robin Vince. We have written about Vince several […]
Industrial Labs also found evidence of acepromazine, levamisole, detomidine, pyrilamine, lidocaine, MEGX, xylazine, and caffeine in an SGF-1000 sample they tested – all of which are regulated in post-race samples due to their potential to impact performance. The company had apparently asked Industrial to test the product and touted the lack of banned substances to racing regulators, […]
Not long after we published our story about the missing Stewards Report from last Saturday night’s VicBred semi-finals at Melton, it finally went up. We learnt from it this. Emma Stewart has 39 starters in 11 races, with multiple runners in 10 of them. Only 3 of her 39 runners are pre-race swabbed. Only one […]
What happened in race 2 at Newcastle can be shown to you because out of consideration for the injured parties the replay has not been published, which is a decision that we agree with. We can tell you from the Stewards report that Zara Fitzpatrick’s drive Solar Express was checked while racing ungenerously and fell, […]
Want to see something that should ring alarm bells? With the exception of Showsomejoy, who ran 5.8 seconds faster than its previous best winning time to take out race 1 in 1.53.8 off a soft sit on a slick pace, every single one of Emma Stewart’s eight other VicBred Super Series semi-final winners ran times […]
At its previous start prior to last night the Seaton Grima trained and driven Go Oh Mickey had been sent out a $1.70 favorite in a weak NR55 mares race at Newcastle, which seemed a bit over the odds considering that it had beaten a similar class field the start before at the same track […]
No this is not a story about male to male oral sex in the toilet stalls at Clifford Park, as much as you might draw that inference from a security guard at the Toowoomba racing awards last night finding two blokes in the dunny with one bent over and a finger up his cavity. What […]
