Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Two QLD gallops trainers have been disqualified in recent times for using the banned anabaolic steroid Stanozolol to improve their horses performance. So what does Stanozolol actually do, and how does it improve a horse? The answer is it does many things: Increases Protein Synthesis: Stanozolol binds to androgen receptors in cells, which activates specific […]
Cash Manager wasn’t injured at all, it was just very slow dog. It hadn’t won or even run a place for almost a year, and the minimal appearance money it had collected weren’t enough to pay for its feed. So after it ran last twice in row in very slow times, the greyhound’s trainer Rhonda Essery […]
Queensland gallops trainer Louis Peoples has been disqualified for 21 months after one of his runners named Half Listening threw positive swabs to the banned anabolic steroid Stanozolol, the same drug used by Ben Johnson when he broke the world 100m record at the 1988 Olympics, proving that come things might change but drug cheating […]
This Border Control Seizure Notice is from 2017. The substance is EPO. Rebecca Geurds was the intended recipient of the EPO. Geurds is a licensed South Australian trot trainer. EPO is banned at the trots. If you are caught using it you will be disqualified for a very long time. This Seizure Notice […]
So-called wise folk say that the only things certain in life are death and taxes. They are wrong though. There is another absolute certainty in life as well. That Grant Dixon will train the First 4 in the last race at Albion Park on Saturday night. I am renowned among my friends for stopping trains, […]
Mr Profit Peter Bain has more integrity in the tip of his little finger than 98% of the harness racing fraternity in South Australia, to ascertain otherwise is farcical. Your suggestions to state otherwise are what is wrong with journalism in the present time, it is peak laziness! Please sir, I applaud you to do […]
After a turbulent year for Victorian harness racing, equilibrium was restored at Melton last night. Well sort of anyway. There were four finals of the Breeders Crown for 2 and 3-year-old pacers, one for each age group and gender. Emma Stewart won them all. Danny Zavitsanos own 2 of them (plus another winner) and Bain/Summit […]
Do the Stewards in Far North QLD not know the rules, or is it simply that they choose not to apply them? Trainer Alwyn Bailey failed to transport his runner in race 4 Bring Me To Life to the track. Bailey told the Stewards that he left the horse at home because in his opinion […]
Want to hear something amazing? Emma Stewart is sitting second in the Tasmanian women trainers premiership. She has won the 2nd highest prizemoney of any woman trainer too. Stewart has only had 26 runners in the State all year. 18 of them have won. Her Tasmanian strike rate is 69%. Emma Stewart is also sitting […]
‘Devastating life events’ led to SA horse trainer Ryan Balfour to drink and drive and pass out in his car, court told Story by Natalie Vikhrov, Adelaide Advertiser A prominent South Australian horse trainer was suffering “devastating life events” – including the loss of the family racing business – before he drove so drunk he […]
