Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There were six races at Port Pirie. The winners of only two of them were post race swabbed after their victories. Those two winners swabbed were trained by Ryan Hryhorec (1) and Leah Holman (1). None of Aaron Bain’s three winners was asked to give a post-race sample. That’s a bit of a worry, for […]
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 […]
The word from across the ditch is that as we predicted some weeks back, the current Albion Park chairman Brad Steele has been offered and has accepted the CEO role at Harness Racing New Zealand. An official announcement will be made next week is the mail. Steele’s brother Scott won’t be able to travel over […]
Drug addicted South Australian reinsman Kenny ‘The Gambler’ Rogers (pictured above) recently recorded his 5th positive swab to being under the influence of drugs – and his fourth for that drug being methamphetamine – at a harness meeting at which he was driving in professional races. Methamphetamine, commonl known as Ice – is utterly illegal […]
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 […]
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 […]
As widely predicted, the NZ harness racing identity recently convicted of offences against a child has avoided jail, and was today sentenced to a term of 10 months home detention. Standard conditions applying to offenders serving a sentence of home detention in New Zealand include: reporting regularly to community probation restrictions on living and working arrangements […]
The disgraced New Zealand harness racing identity who was recently convicted of a child sex offence and shortly thereafter threw in their license will face the court today for sentencing. Everyone is saying that a deal has been struck to give them home detention rather than a jail sentence. It’s probably right, for the courts […]
Pete McMullen claims that he felt Turn It Up only challenged his horse Aardie’s Flash for a short distance after the first turn. McMullen was correct, it did. But what about the heated challenge for the first 200 or 300m when Noddy took on the fastest beginner in QLD and held him out, running a […]
