Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I have decided that if Dr Whiting PhD can tip half the card at the gallops nude, then I can do it half nude at the trots too. If you can’t beat them, join ’em. So here I am. Bathurst Race 3 no 10 RIPP Wins by panels Race 4 no 2 SPARKLING SEA Ditto […]
Well, well, well. It appears from this latest release that the mail we got from Cambridge may have been wrong. We are now hearing that the once thought to be suspect payments that former CEO David Branch received from the club may have been simply repayments of money that Branch kicked in from his personal […]
Leading WA harness racing trainer Mike Reed has been disqualified for 6 month for his horse Henty throwing a positive swab to Solatol, a human beta blocker used off label on horses as an antiarrhythmic to treat atrial fibrillation. Oddly, Reed did not claim environmental contamination, but rather put evidence before the Stewards ed that […]
Now that the Sydney carnival is over the worst kept secret in harness racing has finally been revealed. A Jason Grimson trained horse has thrown a positive swab. The horse in question is Delightful Star, which ran 2nd in the G3 Ladyship Cup at Melton on the 18th of October last year. The drug in […]
Court showdown on cards after Group 1 swab shock Connections of last year’s Group 1 Breeders’ Challenge Final winner are contemplating heading to the Supreme Court after their horse was stripped of the race due to a positive swab charge. Two-year-old filly Ark Sea tested positive to Synephrine following her win at Menangle last October […]
Harness Racing SA, backed with State Government money, last year signed a deal to take over the Gawler harness race track on a lease from the club, and promised to develop it. HRSA by all reports received a million dollars to construct lights at Gawler. $1 million wouldn’t even scratch the surface of the cost. […]
Alwaysbjoy had 2 runs in New Zealand and was only average. It gets sold to Australia and sent to the stable of Chantal Turpin aka Pete McMullen. You can see what is coming next, can’t you? Alwaysbjoy runs a bottler first up when it sits in the death outside its super smart stablemate in the […]
This is wonderful tribute to Kevin Seymour made by the Victorian Harness Racing Club as part of the presentation of Seymour’s induction as a Caduceus Club Living Legend. It starts off with a minor inaccuracy – that Seymour sold racebooks at Albion Park as a teenager: he couldn’t have, because Kevin went to school in […]
The attacks on SA trot trainer continue apace, this time with overnight graffiti on the signs in the back straight at Globe Derby. I’m not sure whether its by sheer coincidence or because the vandal knows the lay of the land, but the signs that were spraypainted are just out of camera range on the […]
The recent case of harness racing trainer Craig Turnbull and his horse Star To Fall throwing a positive swab to Cotinine and Trans-3’-hydroxycotinine after winning a race at Wagga highlights the very real problem with the methods employed by Harness Racing NSW to test swabs. Cotinine and Trans-3’-hydroxycotinine are, as the name suggests, metabolites of […]
