Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We all know that New Zealand is a clean, green country. It’s water is clean, it’s air is fresh and unpolluted, and its forests are lush. Everything about the country except the wages is pristine. Even the horse racing. There are no bicarb drug cheats in the Kiwi gallops or trots. Not one. The RIB […]
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) and the New Zealand Racing Integrity Board (RIB) do much the same things. Both have racing integrity as their driving purpose, and the functions of each are the employment of Stewards to control race meetings and discipline, take swabs and have them analyzed, and oversee and enforce animal welfare […]
What you see above is the trainer’s receipt for a swab sample taken from their horse at a NSW harness race meeting on the 22nd of May 2025. The usual practice in most States with swabs is that they are either personally delivered or couriered to the relevant testing laboratory after the conclusion of the […]
* Metaphorically speaking of course, not literally. We are opposed to violence, other than of the controlled and regulated type in a boxing ring or in home or country’s defense from an invasion. Other than that we are peace man, and used the bullet as a metaphor for a rule breach offence charge. The Stewards […]
How long has Harness Racing NSW suspected or known that the ‘safe’ horse wormer Fenbender 100 contains the prohibited substance Levamisole? We have received credible information suggesting that the product containing Levamisole tested by the ARFL lab was purchased from a certain Garrards store by a member of the HRNSW Integrity Team using a company […]
We have written numerous times about the spate of positive swabs to Levamisole that have been recorded in NSW in recent years, and have repeatedly raised the question of why the Hanging State appeared to be the only jurisdiction in which positives to the substance were being thrown. The news published yesterday that the commonly […]
30 October 2025 As a result of a HRNSW investigation, the Australian Racing Forensic Laboratory (ARFL) have detected traces of Levamisole in a sample of Fenbender 100. An image of this product is provided for your information. Until further notice, as Levamisole is a prohibited substance, trainers are cautioned in relation to the use […]
When he is trying Nathan Jack (pictured at top) is one of the finest trot drivers anywhere in the land, a real artist in the cart. Cracker Jack is pretty good when he is not trying too, and therein lies the problem. His father Russell had two runners in the five horse trot race at […]
The heavy sentences imposed on licensees by HRNSW continue without pause, with trot trainer Jarred Hetherington the latest to fall victim to the Hanging State. Hetherington’s racing ‘crime’ was, like trainer Rye yesterday, one of his horses throwing a positive swab to cobalt. The threshold for cobalt is 100 ug/L (micrograms per litre) of the […]
We continue to receive information that unlicensed trainer Todd Austin is preparing at least 7 horses at the Barcaldine track, and that he is doing it out of a car so he is not visible and can drive off undetected if by chance the Stewards unexpectedly arrive during trackwork hours. Those that know say that […]
