Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There have been rumors floating around for a long time that trainer Ben Smith was a glass pipe jockey. After his guilty plea yesterday to having had prohibited substances on board in his system when swabbed at his Kembla Grange stables on the 4th of April, you have to suspect that the rumors were right. […]
Prodigal Guiness was a moderately performer winner of 3 races from 18 starts before being purchaed by Australian interests and brought across the ditch, but he was a troupled pacer too, plagued by leg injuries. He had already had one 6 month breack from racing at home, and by the time he made his debut […]
Nigel McGrath is a cheat. By his own reckoning McGrath was giving his horses the banned substance propantheline bromide – a muscle relaxant that works like EPO by increasing the flow of blood – for two years during the Blue Magic scandal that resulted in 2 people dead, supposedly by suicide, although few believe the […]
Wasn’t this superb targeted pre-race swabbing (PRS) by HRNSW officials last night at Penrith? Only one favorite all night was swabbed. Neither of the odds on faves were among them. 5 of the 8 horses pre-race tested were at double figure odds, with 4 of the 8 at prices of $20.00 or longer. What the […]
There were six races at Port Pirie. The winners of only two of them were post race swabbed after their victories. Those two winners swabbed were trained by Ryan Hryhorec (1) and Leah Holman (1). None of Aaron Bain’s three winners was asked to give a post-race sample. That’s a bit of a worry, for […]
Drug addicted South Australian reinsman Kenny ‘The Gambler’ Rogers (pictured above) recently recorded his 5th positive swab to being under the influence of drugs – and his fourth for that drug being methamphetamine – at a harness meeting at which he was driving in professional races. Methamphetamine, commonl known as Ice – is utterly illegal […]
A pacer named Black Edition was purchased from NZ by Kerry Ann Morris, and arrived at her stables in Menangle on the 2oth of November 2020. 5 of 6 days before leaving NZ – somewhere between the 14th and 15th of November 2020 – Black Edition had been treated with levamisole by the seller’s trainer […]
Chubby Checker the former Turbo trained pacer that has got him into all the trouble hasn’t raced since December last year. The singer that it was named after is still at the age of 82 going strong and belting out tunes at the trots. I guess the original Chubby never got treated with Levamisole. This […]
Kerry Ann Morris’s appeal against her 6-month disqualification for presenting her Kiwi import Black Edition to race twice with the prohibited substance Levamisole in its system has been dismissed by the NSW Harness Racing Appeal Panel. We will provide a detailed commentary on the panel’s decision in a later article. What it means upfront though […]
Emma Stewart trained four odds-on favorites at Menangle last night. Extraordinarily not one of them was pre-races swabbed. Admittedly her Oaks winner Very Pretty ($1.09) and Queen Elizabeth II Mile runner-up Ladies in Red ($1.75) had been in the retention barn up to 2 hours before their races, but to imagine that stops a determined […]
