Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Gallagher and trainer Jason Grimson look like the future of the sport and if so the trots are in good hands. Chris Roots – Sydney Morning Herald racing writer I would like to think that Chris Roots is a naive babe in the woods, a wet behind the ears yokel who knows about as much […]
December 10, 2021 The Honorable Mary Kay Vyskocil United States District Court Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse 500 Pearl Street New York, New York 10007 Re: United States v. Jorge Navarro, S6 20 Cr. 160 (MKV) Dear Judge Vyskocil: Jorge Navarro’s case reflects failings, greed, and corruption at virtually every level of the world of professional […]
OFFENCE CONDUCT Jorge Navarro (“Navarro” or the “defendant”) earned tens of millions of dollars in purse winnings by training and racing thoroughbred horses that Navarro had “doped” using a plethora of adulterated and misbranded performance-enhancing drugs (“PEDs”), including (among others) blood builders, vasodilators, SGF-1000, baking soda “drenches,” “bleeder” pills, and other drugs not approved by […]
Throughout Navarro’s years-long conspiracy, Navarro was the critical component in a network of fraud – the individual who amplified the corruption of horse owners and encouraged the corruption of his underlings. For example, on May 29, 2019, Navarro held a conference call with the owner and operator of a racing stable in California, for whom […]
B. The Doping of XY Jet Notwithstanding his hypocritical and self-serving claim to have “loved” the horse, Navarro’s course of conduct with “XY” Jet merely exemplifies his aggressive pursuit of new drugs with which to dope his horses. Navarro’s frantic efforts to dope “XY Jet” in advance of a February 13, 2019 precursor race to […]
Gary ‘Woody’ Woodham is the CEO of Harness Racing New Zealand. He is also a major owner of pacers and trotters, and has his horse’s trained by the All Stars. Woody assures us that there are no conflicts of interest. That bloke who paces around the square all day talking to Jesus believes him. The […]
Of all those New Zealand trainers or training combinations that have trained 15 or more winners this year, there are only really three that have recorded winning strike rates of better than one winner in four. They are: The first is the All Stars Stable, which over the course of the season have trained variously […]
The breaking news from across the ditch is that Woodend Beach trainer Cam Jones (pictured above) has this afternoon been caught with a needle in his hand ready to inject his pacer Johnny Nevits with an unknown substance on the way to the Addington race track. Our information is that Jones was being covertly surveilled […]
Yesterday we write a story about harness trainer Stephanie Lippiatt and opine that the inquiry into her drive on a 50-1 shot at Menangle on the weekend was a double blind, as part of a three coconut trick. Lo and behold, the very next day at the very same track Lippiatt comes out and trains […]
US trainer Bob Baffert is a long time drug cheat. A few years back his Triple Crown – Kentucky Derby, Preakness, Belmont Stakes – winner Justify threw a positive but escaped on a technicality. His Kentucky Derby winner this year Medina Spirit didn’t. It threw a positive to steroids and got stripped of the win. […]
