Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This website has been much criticized by supporters of Darren Weir for our firm and oft repeated position that the trainer was guilty of a monstrous act that was deserving of a severe penalty, up to and including being warned off for life. Unlike most of our critic we had seen the footage of Darren […]
Aaron Goadsby must be the most unlucky horse trainer in Australia. A couple of years ago one of his horses threw a positive swab to bute. Like gallops trainers Chantal and Richard Jolly at around the same time, Goadsby’s positive was accepted by all parties as resulting from contamination, but because he lives and works […]
Mitchell Reese is a bad egg. The NSW Racing Appeals Panel said it, not me. These are some of their words, contained in the written decision dismissing the appeal of Reece’s ex-partner Rebecca Brown against a 5-year-disqualification she incurred for drug cheating: … numerous 2016 SMS messages establish that Mitchell Reese and Nathan Carroll in […]
There are some NSW trainers who appear to be under-performing this season compared to the last. Brad Hewitt trained 69 winners Statewide from 299 starters last year at a strike rate of 23.1%. He won 22 from 72 in the city at a strike rate of 30.6%. Hewitt finished 7th in State Premiership and 5th […]
You might have noticed that certain hitherto highly successful harness racing and thoroughbred stables have dropped off the pace recently, and are no longer getting the results that they were not too long ago. We are told that’s at least in part, and maybe whole, because the power stack of performance enhancing peptides that they […]
QLD gallops trainer and trackwork rider Liam Sharrock has been suspended for 9 months for what must have been one of the dumbest offences ever committed. Rather than just going down to see his doctor annually to get the health clearance required for licensees that ride horses, Sharrock instead decided to doctor up his legitimate […]
As we foreshadowed last week, Mildura trainer Aaron Coad has been stood down and all of his horses scratched from their engagements following his recent arrest on drugs charges. No official announcement has yet been made, but we are told that Coad’s license has been suspended pending resolution of his criminal charge/s. Coad next appears […]
Mitch Beer certainly is one different sort of cat. I’m just not sure what kind. You’d never see J.B. Cummings looking like this. T.J. or C.S. Hayes either. Nor Waller, Gollan or Maher. Like I said, Mitch Beer is one of a kind.
By a process of elimination we believe that we have identified the Luke McCarthy trained pacer that has thrown a positive swab to cocaine. The horse appears to be Kingmaker, which won races at Menangle on the 24th and 31st of May. (We had previously written that the positive occurred in QLD; that now seems […]
In a week when harness racing appears to be drowning in an ocean of drugs, the unwelcome talk around Queensland trotting circles is that one of champion trainer ‘Cool Hand’ Luke McCarthy’s horses has thrown a positive swab to a substance believed to be cocaine during the recent Brisbane winter carnival. It is not known […]
