Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
The first trial in the well-publicized federal drug adulteration and misbranding case that focused on doping in horse racing will begin Jan. 19 in New York. Veterinarian Dr. Seth Fishman and Lisa Giannelli will be the first two defendants from the case announced in March 2020 to go to trial. A number of co-defendants, including […]
Former MediVet sales director Michael Kegley, Jr. was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison Jan. 6 after he entered a plea of guilty to one count of drug adulteration and misbranding in the ongoing case around a series of racehorse doping rings, reports the Thoroughbred Daily News. Among the misbranded and adulterated performance-enhancing drugs marketed […]
NICHOLASVILLE, Ky., Aug. 18, 2017 /PRNewswire MediVet Equine began operations in 2009, selling advanced equine preventative and regenerative therapies to veterinarians. In 2013, the company was spun out as a wholly owned, standalone manufacturing and sales entity. We enjoy a solid reputation and relationship with our clients: the equine veterinarians, trainers, and owners that care for […]
