Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
On the 30th of April 2014 trainer/driver Rodney Pike was disqualified for 8 years after 5 of his horses recorded among the highest Cobalt readings ever seen in NSW after winning races. The levels that the horses recorded were extraordinart – 360 ug/L, 530 ug/L, 1200ug/L, 1440 ug/L & 2360 ug/L. At the time the […]
A pacer named Black Edition was purchased from NZ by Kerry Ann Morris, and arrived at her stables in Menangle on the 2oth of November 2020. 5 of 6 days before leaving NZ – somewhere between the 14th and 15th of November 2020 – Black Edition had been treated with levamisole by the seller’s trainer […]
What you see above are the related party dealings of Greyhound Racing NSW before the hugely controversial current CEO Robert Macauley came to town and took up the job. And what you see below are the are the related party dealings of Greyhound Racing NSW since he has. If it looks like a duck, swims […]
Chubby Checker the former Turbo trained pacer that has got him into all the trouble hasn’t raced since December last year. The singer that it was named after is still at the age of 82 going strong and belting out tunes at the trots. I guess the original Chubby never got treated with Levamisole. This […]
Kerry Ann Morris’s appeal against her 6-month disqualification for presenting her Kiwi import Black Edition to race twice with the prohibited substance Levamisole in its system has been dismissed by the NSW Harness Racing Appeal Panel. We will provide a detailed commentary on the panel’s decision in a later article. What it means upfront though […]
Emma Stewart trained four odds-on favorites at Menangle last night. Extraordinarily not one of them was pre-races swabbed. Admittedly her Oaks winner Very Pretty ($1.09) and Queen Elizabeth II Mile runner-up Ladies in Red ($1.75) had been in the retention barn up to 2 hours before their races, but to imagine that stops a determined […]
Jackie’s Gift as a weanling, with her mother Chevrons Sweetheart. They were sold as a pair in December 2021 for $22 000. Grant Forrest is that rarest of thing, a NSW harness racing trainer who only prepares trotters. The man based in Mount Fairy doesn’t generally go near pacers. If it doesn’t square gait, Grant Forrest […]
Chelsea Prothero, the young former Victorian driver who moved to NSW to Prothero pleaded guilty to charges that: During an interview on 11 January 2024, as part of their application to upgrade her licence from a Stablehand to a Grade B Trainer, she knowingly or recklessly furnished false information to HRV Stewards by stating that […]
The NSW Oaks at Menangle next weekend looks to be over before it has even begun. On the strength of her dominant display in winning her heat the Emma Stewart trained Very Pretty appears to have all of her rivals totally covered, including her fellow heat winner and reigning NSW 2YO of the year Lux […]
The original enforcer, the great L.R. Dittman extraordinaire Mick Dittman earned the nickname ‘The Enforer’ in the 1980’s for his ability to get somerthing extra out of his mounts to carry them to victory when their realistic chances of winning their races looked forlorn. “Dittman’s lifted it to the line!’ was Ian Craig’s regular exclamation, […]
