Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
As we told you a week ago, Group 1 winning Kiwi jockey Matthew Cameron threw a positive swab to drugs just months after being granted a special dispensation to resume his career after his license had been withdrawn for being a convicted sex offender. A Last Chance Blown The drug that Cameron threw positive to […]
What is Diisopropylamine Dichloroacetate (DADA)? Diisopropylamine Dichloroacetate, or DADA, is a chemical compound that has recently garnered attention in sports science circles. Known for its unique properties, DADA is being explored for its potential use in enhancing athletic performance. Other Names: DADA is also known under various other names, including Dichloroacetate diisopropylamine, Diisopropylamine salt of […]
The Cid had won only 1 of its last 16 starts when it lined up for the Final of the Regional Championships in Newcastle on the 17th of May. With Happy Jack Callaghan in the cart driving for his trainer The Cid won, and the connections of the horse took home a $54 000 first […]
We’ve been contacted by a number of readers who are eager to learn why John McCarthy has finally started serving his disqualification for a cobalt positive almost six years after his horse threw it. Apparently they can’t find any mention of the reason the sin binning has now taken effect on the HRNSW website. We […]
The mail from over the ditch is that Ben Yole was not the only trainer overworking his employees and instructing them to inject runners on race day. A certain leading stable based at sand land in Woodend Beach was said to be doing it too, and still is. We don’t know what was in Yole’s […]
Major Moth had 28 starts for Australia’s leading trainers Emma Stewart and Clayton Tonkin. It won 13 of them. The fastest winning time it ran was 1.54.3. Last night Major Moth won under double wraps over 2138m at Albion Park first-up from a 9 month spell. It was the horse’s first start for its new trainer […]
The Alex Freeman trained Jay Bee Jay Bee threw a positive swab 4-hydroxytestosterone after it raced on the 5th of May Both 2023. 4-hydroxytestosterone is an anabolic androgenic steroid. Under rule AHR 90AA(4) a horse who throws a positive swab to an anabolic androgenic steroid must be banned from racing for a minimum of 12 […]
Ever wondered how these horse trainers who acquire once fast horses with problems that have slowed down and get them going again do it? What’s their secret? It’s pain killers of course. These trainers aren’t curing the horses they have inherited of their problems. They are not miracle workers, even though they seem to be. […]
Racing officials suspect deadly sea snail venom used as illegal drug By Adam Pengilly and Chris Roots July 9, 2019 — 12.00am A deadly venom found in sea snails which can paralyse fish within a second has emerged as the latest chemical suspected to have infiltrated horse racing, with authorities scrambling to organise testing for the […]
Structural formation of Ziconotide Ziconotide is a synthetic version of a peptide found in the venom of a marine snail, Conus magus. Specifically, it is a 25 amino acid polybasic peptide. Ziconotide blocks N-type voltage-gated calcium channels found in the A-delta and C afferent pain fibers in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord. Blockade of this […]
