Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
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 have taken to calling NSW the Hanging State when it comes to penalties for rule breach offenders at the trots, and with good reason too. HRNSW Stewards don’t actually hang anyone, but the sentences they hand down to licensees who break the rules are much harsher than in most other jurisdictions, so the sobriquet […]
Rocksie Rock had been backed from $8.00 into $1.80 to win the first race at Penrith last week. It wasn’t pre-race swabbed which I reckon was lucky, because the family have form. The horse didn’t. It had been going ordinary for a while now, about 3 months. There was nothing in its form to suggest […]
How often do you see a 2-year-old pacer in a Group 1 classic attacked mercilessly in front and forced to run four sub-28 seconds quarters and still somehow manage to win the race? Not very often is the answer. Which makes what the Brad Hewitt trained Hollywood Strip did last night in taking out the […]
That’s a monster of a sentence the 25 year disqualification handed down to jockey James Innes Jr this week by Racing NSW Stewards, one of the heaviest short of life that I have ever seen, although to a 30 year old mid-rung rider life is what it really is. I don’t know what Innes did […]
