EXCLUSIVE: The Stem Cell Secret to Racing Success My Deer – Part 6 – The Dog Trainer Turned Scientist
The man who owns the Nu Vet company that supplies the stem cells from deer placenta to certain NSW harness racing and galloping trainers is a fellow named Nick Koutsourakis from Victoria. Mr Koutsourakis is a greyhound trainer. Funny sort of bloke to be running a scientific equine and canine stem cell supply company isn’t […]
EXCLUSIVE: The Stem Cell Secret to Racing Success My Deer – Part 7 – Remember How I Told You About Hypoxia?
Inadequate production of erythropoietin (EPO) leads to anemia. Although erythropoiesis-stimulating agents can be used to treat anemia, these approaches are limited by high costs, adverse effects, and the need for frequent injections. Developing methods for the generation and transplantation of EPO-producing cells would allow for the design of personalized and complication-free therapeutic solutions. In mice, […]
EXCLUSIVE: Can You Spare Me a Dime? – If You Do I Will Tell You Exactly How the Cheats are Doping Horses – FIRST PUBLISHED 17 NOVEMBER 2022
Often in this life we try to complicate things that are really very simple. We all look for techno tweaked drugs that are being administered to horses to make them run really fast, when the simple answer is really just right under our feet. EPO is the key. But how do the cheats give it […]
The Celling Difference My Dear
Belmont Major was a former New Zealand pacer sold at the Red Mile Mixed Winter Sale too. He was a very smart pacer at home, but nowhere near the league of Ashley Locaz. When he left New Zealand’s shores on the 3rd of June last year to go and race in the USA Belmont Major […]
Once Were Warriors – Oh Deer, How the Mighty Have Fallen
Does anyone remember the former Purdon and Rasmussen trained pacer Ashley Locaz? In 2017 as a two-year-old Ashley Locaz beat Spankem, The Devil’s Own and All U Need Is Faith in the $150 000 Group 1 Harness Jewels. Two years later he ran 2nd behind Poster Boy in the Group 1 Chariots Of Fire, beating […]
The Gods of Mischief
Im Loki is the archetypal Aaron Bain and Summit Bloodstock pacer. When they picked this hitherto slow WA pacer up it had just 6 races from its 110 career starts overn four years. It had been winless at it’s past 39 starts. The fastest winning time it had ever run was 1.59.2. These bovver boys […]
Glenn Douglas the King of Deja Vu
Swan Hill – 11 January 2022 RACE 3 – GRIZZLY ENGINEERING – FIELD BOSS BATTLERS IN THE BUSH MAIDEN PACE (2240MS) TERROR OFA SAINT Glenn Douglas, on behalf of trainer Julie Douglas advised subsequent to a poor performance by Terror Ofa Saint at Swan Hill on 11 January 2022, the mare had seemingly recovered satisfactorily, connections were […]
There Are Real Bad Smells Around the Incentivise Saga
What is really going on with Incentivise? How did a horse that is now suffering from a host of ailments, which include tears to his suspensory ligament and damage to his cannon bones and tendons, get through a Spring Carnival campaign the way he did and still run second in a Melbourne Cup? Were his […]
Here We Go Again – Turbo Charged Cheating
Surf Ace had raced 29 times prior to last night, for four trainers and four wins. The fastest time that he’d ever won in was 1.59.6. Last night the four-year-old pacer appeared for the first time at Bathurst in the colours of his new trainer Turbo Trainor. It was his first run for three weeks. […]