Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We are unabashed huge fans of Peter V’Landys, as a person, as a leader, and as quite possibly the greatest racing administrator that the world has ever seen. The reasons for that latter statement are borne out clearly by the information and financial accounts published this week in the 2025 Annual Report. Racing NSW’ success […]
Pink Scooter is a lowly rated 5-year-old pacer with a record of 51 starts for just 2 wins, the most recent of them coming at Dubbo in December last year. The horse has had 25 starts since then without troubling the judge, and his personal times in each of them were somewhat slow to say […]
Paul Tonkin (no relation to Clayton Tonkin) and Lindsay Rogers are Victorian harness trainers. Both men suffer from chronic pain from incurable back injuries, and each takes a heavy duty medication called Tapentadol to help alleviate the pain that they endure from dawn to dusk and all the time in between. Tonkin and Rogers each […]
A trainer presenting a horse to race when not free of prohibited substances is what’s known as a strict liability offence. As far as guilt or innocence goes there is only the former if your horse throws a positive swab. Even if you can prove from the recordings made by your stable security cameras that […]
Until now it has been accepted by the Stewards, Appeals Panel and Tribunal that Levamisole is only detectable in a swab for less than a week. This elimination time for the drug is based on an otherwise unrecognized study of 3 horses conducted by the the Australian Racing Forensic Laboratory in collaboration with HRNSW, which […]
Sloys Company are a major owner in NSW harness racing. It’s a company run by the Xerri family. They’re not having a lot of luck with their trainers lately. First Michael Doltoff gets disqualified for 13 months over a bute positive. It was his sixth offence. Adam Ruggari takes over for a while but he […]
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 […]
Extract from HRNSW Stewards findings in the positive swab case of trainer Kerry Ann Morris The highest concentrations of levamisole residues were found in the liver in all species tested. In cattle, sheep and goats, at 7 days after treatment, the yeast residues in the liver samples were below 100/g/kg. At 14 days, they were […]
