Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The single most dismal and critical shortcoming over-shadowing EVERY aspect of racing in NZ, vis a vis integrity and animal welfare – are the disgraceful use of Erythropoietin (‘EPO’); and other performance enhancers; and the (sometimes associated) blood spinning/race injectable process and agents (‘spun blood’) and blood conditioning and blood solution practices operating within NZ […]
I refer again to the blood spinning promotion presented by Greg O’Conner on NZRB’s TV racing channel (‘Trackside’) on 15 May 2019 (Mick Guerin stated that this report by Mr O’Conner was investigative journalism – but to my ears it was far from investigative, and was self-promoting, laced with leading questions, each leading toward the […]
“Great” word cyclist Lance Armstrong eventually admitted his successes were contributed to blood doping – spun blood enhanced with EPO pre spinning, then injected back intravenously in race week. His interviews with Oprah were eye-openers for all involved in policing sports. See these ‘confession’ videos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jtDH-10m2s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfjbAM9rDzo And here is Lance Armstrong in 2018/2019…a […]
Let’s look at the NZ blood spinning/spun blood injectabales practice from a positon of logic. Ask, why would one do it, given the relatively high cost of doing it – it being said on Trackside to be $850 +gst per spinning, and additional vet cost to take the blood, costs to transport it to Christchurch, […]
ANNEXURE ONE Here are NZ Company Office details, of NZ Equine Blood Solutions NZ Limited: EQUINE BLOOD SOLUTIONS N.Z. LIMITED (6340692) Registered Last updated on 27 Jul 2018 Industry Classification: M692525 Laboratory operation Interestingly there are also similar named companies registered in Victoria, West Australia and NSW, viz: Name: EQUINE BLOOD SOLUTIONS VICTORIA PTY LTD ACN: 626 844 […]
What would Jesus do? Open up his bloody eyes and see. It is stating the blindingly obvious to say that if you want drug free racing, you have to pre-race blood test the right horses. The favourites in each race are a good start. Victoria do it properly when Emma and Clay aren’t racing. These […]
Dr Andrew Grierson is a qualified equine veterinary surgeon. He is also a harness racing breeder and owner, and a businessman. Andrew Grierson owns 50 percent of Woodlands Stud, the most successful breeding operation in New Zealand. Breeders make money in a number of ways, but two of the obvious ones are by selling stallion […]
Well here we were after Saturday night thinking that we’d ushered in a new era of intelligent Stewarding in NSW. How foolish we were. It wall just an illusion, an mirage in a syringe filled desert drenched with drugs. Targeted, effective and efficient swab sampling is one of the keys to overcoming the corruption crisis […]
Can anyone help to work this one out, for it makes no sense to me. Each swab sample taken and analysed by the QRIC costs $327. That was the budgeted figure last year (number on left), and it is the same number in the current year (number on right). Numbers don’t lie, do they? If […]
The NSW Stewards have ordered Jason Grimson to place all of his horses in the retention barn from 12.00pm Sunday (today) until 8.00pm on Saturday 12 June. That means the horses are already there. But Houston, we have a problem. Grimson has only one horse entered to race this week. That horse is Hidden Courage, […]
