The Black Horse Gallops Down Under – And Peter Profit Trots to the World – The Most Important Thing You Will Read About Drugs in Racing This Year – Part 2

As racing scandals increase around the world, Archie’s dogged detective work over the last two years has uncovered one of the major drugs used in New Zealand that enables trotters and pacers in harness racing to break track records by impossible margins. Erythropoietin Is a hormone produced naturally by the kidneys which assists the production […]

Something is Seriously Wrong in Jockey McGillivray’s Life – But in South Australian Racing, the Whole Thing is Wretched

We wrote yesterday about the outrageous decision in the case of leading SA jockey Jason Holder, who switched his dirty urine sample for one that was clean, deceived and lied to Stewards, and then finally threw a positive test result to banned substances when forced to do a second test. In a disgraceful decision that […]

Why Have Rules? All They Do Is Get in the Way of a Good Injection

On the 19th of July last year some Stewards from Harness Racing Victoria made a surprise visit to the stables of trainer Rhys Nicholson. There they found an unregistered performance enhancing injectable solution named Bio Bleeder (see story below). They charged him with possession of a product that has not been registered, labelled, prescribed or obtained […]

Bio Bleeder

This is an all natural formula with no prohibited substances and no side effects; it does not swab. Bio Bleeder is safe to use in all performance horses and racing camels. It has a positive effect on performance and the overall health of the animal it can be used as a pre-race as well as […]

Woods of Spellbound Ruins – Change the Names and You’re Talking About Australia – Part 2 – Switching the Drugs

Poliseno then turned the conversation to what Conner’s disappearance and death could mean for him. He had been using Conner’s veterinary license information to purchase drugs for resale, and now he believed he was about to be caught. It never becomes completely clear in the transcripts whether Poliseno was concerned he had dated some prescriptions […]

Woods of Spellbound Ruins – Change the Names and You’re Talking About Australia – Part 3 – Shock to the Heart, and the Vet’s To Blame

According to other documents from prosecutors, Grasso was no stranger to having his license used by laypeople. He allegedly wrote prescriptions as requested by trainers without examining their horses for $100 per script, sometimes making it appear that EPO and other substances were being ordered for treatment of nonexistent horses, or sometimes, a fictional dog […]

Woods of Spellbound Ruins – Change the Names and You’re Talking About Australia – Part 4 – What’s the Colour of a Two Cent Piece? Copper, Copper

The Delaware commission ultimately undercut the stewards’ rulings, reducing Neilson’s penalty to a one-month suspension and a $1,000 fine because they believed he was ignorant of the rules and guilty mostly of poor recordkeeping. For Pecoraro, they overturned the penalty altogether because they said the stewards had failed to cite the absolute insurer rule that […]

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