Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
By Himangi Singh: Herald Sun An Adelaide horse trainer accused of trafficking more than 100kg of cannabis through his family business allegedly told police “fanciful” tales of being “set up” and raking in big bucks selling hay and horse meds, a court has heard. Luke O’Neill, of Adelaide, fronted Mildura Magistrates’ Court on Thursday for […]
Story by Janine Watson; Daily Telegraph It has been a spectacular fall from grace for former high-profile horse trainer Dwayne Donald Schmidt, who currently remains behind bars waiting to be sentenced after pleading guilty to several child rape charges. In an unusual twist, Schmidt instructed his lawyer to not continue his bail and voluntarily entered himself […]
Trainer Trevor Rowe was questioned by Stewards about his decision to scratch Major Artie from race 3 at Cairns on Thursday. Rowe told them that upon reflection he decided that running the horse over 2100m with 61kg on its back might not be a good idea, and that he would look to find a race […]
Ringworm is a highly contagious fungal condition that it passed by horses through direct contact, such as running side by side in a race. Horse with ringworm need to be isolated while they are treated for the condition, so they don’t infect other healthy horses and cause it to spread. The primary visible symptom of […]
You may notice the name C. McGuigan in the ownership of many of the N40 horses trained by Michael Brennan. Catherine McGuigan is Brennan’s wife and mother of his kids. She is also a struck-off drug-using equine vet. Strange sort of person to have living at a registered training address and owning horses isn’t it? […]
Does this sound familiar? A little bit like Ben Yole’s operation, or maybe a lot Naomi Kerr is seeking to buy, lease or train horses from around Australia. She is advertising in the harness racing classifieds for owners to send her horses that are currently in work so she can race them in Northern Victoria, […]
At its final six starts before trainer Carl Edlridge transferred the 7yo pacer to Daniel Rowell to train, The Real Rocketman has been beaten 58m, 14om, 57m, 21m, 61m and 54m at third rate tracks in Goulburn, Canberra and Young. It’s career record was 63 starts for just 3 wins, the most recent of them […]
