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

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 […]

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

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 […]

Strange Bedfellows

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 […]

On the Lenny Cain Appeal …..

The only danger Lenny Cain was worried about was getting a flat tyre. Did they ask any of the other drivers if they heard him shout? Belle From Burnie Editor’s note: No it doesn’t appear that they did, a point that attracted criticism from the panel chair. It looked like straight out bad temper not […]

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