Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Jorge Navarro’s case reflects failings, greed, and corruption at virtually every level of the world of professional horse racing. For money and fame, corrupt trainers went to increasing extremes to dope horses under their care. Unscrupulous owners, who stood to profit directly, encouraged and pressured trainers to win at any cost. Veterinarians sworn to the […]
Dear Mr Jones I apologise for saving you from a charge of needling up a horse on race day, one that would have put you out for seven years. We both know that the next one will send you down the road for 14 plus, or perhaps life, and that I should have kept my […]
Do you remember the story we wrote about the rumoured return of the fence jumpers last week, and how we put forward the proposition that to eradicate any doubt about whether horses well in the market who perform like mules were got at, any horse who is given a big chance in the betting then […]
This is an extract from Acting Chief Steward Graham Loch’s address to the people of the trots as published in Harness Racing South Australia’s 2020/21 Annual Report. It is a bald faced lie. There was indeed a harness racing driver who tested positive to an illicit substance at an SA harness race meeting in the […]
Shane Loone – the SA trot trainer who is facing charges over a ring-in, but is somehow still allowed to train and race – took the old pacer Bein Hoa out onto the Globe Derby track to race on Friday night with a big swelling on its neck. The obvious reason for such a glaringly […]
Further, in discussing another individual’s potent PED, Navarro casually related that a particular pain medicine offered for sale to Navarro was so powerful, “the guy [offering Navarro the drug] says he has killed about four horses already. . . . He is saying the horses can’t take it, and die.” In another such call, on […]
Kenny Rogers is a thrice disqualified drug addicted driver, who is presently serving yet another stint for driving while high on Ice. Belinda McCarthy is a NSW trainer who was disqualified after her horse threw a positive swab to Boldenone, a banned steroid. Amy Steenhuis is closely related to Zac Steenhuis, a trot trainer who […]
Click on Watch on YouTube The man talking in this video is former Premiership winning NSW harness racing trainer and driver Chris Gleeson, who in 1996 was warned off for life for corruption. That ban was lifted after 14 years, but Gleeson is an undesirable who will never be allowed back into the sport as […]
Tamworth harness trainer-driver Stacey Elliott was charged with cobalt offences in October. She is guilty of presenting horses to race with banned substance in their systems, but it wasn’t her fault. This hasn’t come out publicly yet, but you can take it as read that the feed she was sold by supplier Furneys Stockfeeds was […]
Norm Torpey has been around the Queensland stewarding ranks for a long time now, and has held some very senior positions within the ranks of the QRIC and it’s successors (and been demoted from them). Torpey is supposed to be one of the better stipes in the north, but I personally wouldn’t pay two cents […]
