Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Equine therapist John Warwick admits he broke rules with possession of unlicensed medicines It is unclear when the outcome of test results on drugs seized at a property in Co Kildare last week will emerge. As part of an ongoing investigation, Department of Agriculture Food & Marine (DAFM) personnel and Gardaí removed prohibited medicines after raiding the […]
Irish horseracing is embroiled in a fresh storm after the swoop on a Monasterevin farm last Tuesday where equine therapist John Warwick was operating. Racing powerhouse Coolmore have denied claims the horse therapist at the centre of last week’s drugs sting in Kildare has worked regularly at their stud. A cache of medicines was impounded […]
You may be wondering why the Melbourne Cup death of the horse Anthony Van Dyck is all over the racing news again, and why trainer Aidan O’Brien has come out and pointed the finger of blame at the Racing Victoria vets. It is because of the unrelenting research and work of a former top journalist […]
Racing horses on the anti-inflammatory painkiller Phenylbutazone – commonly known as Bute – is both a serious breach of the racing rules, and highly dangerous. In 2002 Damien Oliver’s brother Jason was killed in tragic circumstances after a horse racing on Bute in a trial snapped its leg and collapsed under him. The horse’s trainer […]
Darrel Graham Darrel Graham is a 53-year-old trot trainer, driver and owner who has been involved in the sport as a licensee since his teens, which was in the 1980’s. In all of that time D. Graham has incurred a single minor substance rule breach, which was acknowledged as an error based on vets advice, […]
Yesterday morning we published a story about Altrenogest / Regumate / Readyserve / Ovumate/ Trendione/ Epitrenbolone/ Steroids – all the same horse, different jockey – and then guess what happens just hours later? A mare who had been banned from racing for 12 months after having thrown a positive swab to the stuff comes out […]
The official harness racing media is celebrating the fact that leading trainer Emma Stewart has qualified 9 of the 12 starters in Victoria’s richest and most prestigious 2YO race the Breeders Crown, which is run next weekend. They should be in mourning. What does it say about the Victorian harness racing industry that 75% of […]
A few years ago the Australian racing industry was rocked by news that traces of banned anabolic steroids had been detected in products that are regularly administered to performance mares around the world. Despite being linked to a permitted drug, the finding resulted in two Australian fillies being disqualified from racing for 12 months. The […]
Blood builders can’t make a horse run any faster. Nature, training, good luck, fast twitch fibers and freedom from injury does that. But every horse maxes out at it’s top speed one way or another. Genetics are the main cause. Filly 30 can run a quarter mile in 27 seconds. Just one, no more, but […]
For a long time now there have been a growing number of NZ harness racing participants decrying the dominance of the Robert Dunn and Mark Purdon stables, and saying that there is something very, very wrong about the way they dominate the feature events in the country, particularly in the South Island. After what we […]
