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Harness Racing NSW is yet to publicly release its 2024/25 Annual Report, but our network of contacts stretch far, including onto the floor of the NSW Lower House of Parliament, from where one of the State’s democratically elected MP’s of our acquaintance sent us a copy. We will have a lot more to say about […]
Do you remember the story we told you about a month ago about how the Stewards in the Hanging State convicted NSW trot trainer Jared Hetherington and disqualified him for 2 years for a cobalt positive that wasn’t, because the confirmatory lab test on his horse’s sample came back under the threshold Well today J. […]
Gavin “Group 1 Gav” Eades – featured in the video above after winning the 1994 Doncaster Handicap, before he descended into drug and alcohol fueled madness – will appear before the Racing Victoria Stewards on Wednesday to face charges over his digraceful behavior at a recent race meeting at Caulfield. Eades – who has lost […]
If, as we are told that it has, the sample taken from Sure Thing Captain while in the retention barn at Menangle has tested positive for the presence of bisphosphonate, it raises an issue of critical importance to all NSW harness racing participants. We know, and Harness Racing NSW does too, that the sophisticated type […]
Picture – the retention barn at Menangle The mail filtering through is that the substance that QLD trained pacer Sure Thing Captain threw a positive swab to while in HRNSW Menangle retention barn was a class of drug called a bisphosphonate. Bisphosphonates are a class of drugs used in the human world to treat bone […]
Trainers and Veterinarians are advised that the use of bisphosphonates can lead to prolonged and unpredictable detection times. Bisphosphonates are pharmaceutical agents that interfere with normal bone remodelling processes. There are currently only two (2) products containing bisphosphonates registered with the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA): • Tildren Injection for Horses (tiludronic acid […]
Since a class of bone drugs called bisphosphonates entered the equine market, questions have surrounded their use and traceability in horses. Researchers are starting to find clarity, however, on the latter front. A team recently confirmed that a new drug test can detect the bisphosphonate tiludronate disodium (Tildren) in horses up to three years after […]
Tasmanian harness racing identities Nathan Ford (pictured) and his younger sibling Mitch Ford have been arrested and charged with alleged involvement in a major cross-State drug trafficking and supply ring. Police apprehended the Ford brothers on Tuesday and held in custody since, as extradition proceedings for their removal to NSW this week have been successful. […]
INDUSTRY NOTICE IN RELATION TO RECENT MEDIA REPORTS 19 November 2025 Some industry participants may have seen articles recently published in The Sunday Telegraph and in the online edition of The Daily Telegraph (or Code Sports), on 9 and 10 November 2025. Regrettably, those articles contained many factual errors. HRNSW issues this notice to correct and clarify the 10 important matters […]
In a high wage economy with low unemployment stable workers are hard to find, especially when like most trainers you only wish to pay the minimum award hourly rate. Not all that many Australians are prepared to work at mucking out horse boxes for $25.85 an hour, not when they can get $40 an hour […]
