Category: The Trots

The Trots

A Tale of Two Protests

by : peterprofitracing

There have been two similar type protests at the trots over the past 24 hours that produced two very different results. The first of them was in race 2 at Gloucester Park on Friday night, where the driver of the equal dead-heater for 2nd S. McDonald (3 off the fence in the yellow and blue […]

NZ Racing The Trots

Out With the Old and In With the New – HRNZ Tells Texas and Watches to Take a Long Trip in a Leaky Boat, But Keep the Aussie Who Sold the Training Centre at Franklin Without Getting Paid First

by : peterprofitracing

Watches and Me, with some gorgeous bird who’s married to a bald bloke who wears a funny hat, a media personality with more pairs of shoes in his cupboard than Imelda Marcos, and a fella who makes his living selling spoof sources by masturbating retired male pacers. I’m the good looking chap with the Group […]

Drugs in Racing Racing The Trots Trainers

EPO, No, No, No – Gotcha! – Part 1 – Aussie Scientists Work Out a Simple Way to Swab For EPO – Be Afraid Cheats, Be Very, Very Afraid

by : peterprofitracing

A quintet of Aussie scientists including Dr Adam Cawley from the Australian Racing Forensic Laboratory have cracked the Da Vinci Code. They’ve found a fast, cheap and accurate way to test swabs for EPO. Their test detects  follistatin (FST), growth hormone 1 (GH1), insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF1), and interleukin-1 receptor antagonist (IL1RN) too, which pretty […]

Drugs in Racing Racing The Trots Trainers

EPO, No No No – Gotcha! – Part 3 – You’re Sprung Slimeballs

by : peterprofitracing

The term ‘gene doping’ is used to describe the use of any unauthorized gene therapy techniques. We developed a test for five likely candidate genes for equine gene doping: EPO, FST, GH1, IGF1, and ILRN1. The test is based on real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and includes separate screening and confirmation assays that detect different unique targets in each transgene. For […]

South Australia The Trots

Strange Bedfellows

by : peterprofitracing

Turn around bright eyes ….. No wonder Harness Racing SA CEO Dean Elliott can’t find the time to order his Chief Stewards to charge trainer Shane Loone over the ring-in he pulled at Globe Derby. It seems that Elliott is too busy posing for photos with alleged cocaine trafficking kingpins to attend to the integrity […]

NZ Racing The Trots

Stakes Race Explosion Compounds NZ’s Pattern Trainwreck

by : peterprofitracing

With 26 new stakes races this season, HRNZ’s unregulated calendar is now completely out of kilter with international standards Harness racing’s already bloated stakes calendar has now become completely disproportionate. Between those already announced, and those set to be next week by Harness Racing New Zealand, 26 new Group and Listed races are being added […]

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