Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The rumor mill is running rife that a leading Toowoomba trainer has had two horses throw positive swabs to Meloxicam. We won’t name them at present until we can confirm, but no-one will be surprised if and when we do. You will just shake your head and say surely they couldn’t be that silly could […]
Brendan James is a Tamworth based trainer whose horse threw a positive swab to Phenylbutazone, often referred to as “bute”, is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory painkilling drug for the short-term treatment of pain and fever in horses. Pacers and trotters are not allowed to race with bute in their system, because it masks pain from injuries […]
The QLD Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) makes some very strange decisions from time to time. In fact they make them all the time. The recent case of Ronald Ryan is yet another example. Ryan got sprung administering boost paste to a horse named FIVE BULLS by the QRIC flying squad when they drove up the […]
Remember our story The Sussest Race in the World, in which we told you a couple of weeks ago about the rort the Reece Moore stable pulled to get their odds-on favorite beaten by one of the stablemates in a race in which Moore had four of the six runners? The odds on fave that […]
The big harness racing news out of New Zealand is that multiple premiership winning trainer Mark Purdon is launching a North Island stable. Purdon, who in recent times has been in a training partnership with his son Nathan despite living in the North Island, will base his new operation out of Steven Reid’s former barns […]
Toowoomba trainer Lindsay Hatch has been granted a stay of operation of his 12 month suspension for a positive swab. Hatch was actually suspended for 9 months after being found guilty of a presentation charge by Stewards, but the conviction enlivened a previous 9 month suspended sentence that he received for a previous positive swab, […]
Danny Russell and Sarah Danckert The Age. February 7, 2025 Trainers John Symons and Sheila Laxon have denied owing more than half a million dollars to a collapsed company at the centre of their Melbourne Cup prizemoney dispute. The trainers say they are, in fact, owed $26,000 in outstanding fees by Esprit Racing, the company they worked […]
One of Tasmania’s largest harness racing operations has been charged with breaching its duty of care following a 2023 car crash, in which several people were seriously injured. Five young people, who worked for Ben Yole Racing Pty Ltd, were driving back to Mr Yole’s stables in Sidmouth in January 2023 when their Ford Ranger, […]
WA trot trainer Michael Young has recorded a winning strike rate of 19% for the past two seasons. Then Santa came and left the gift of magic under Young’s Xmas tree. Now he is training winners at 41%. Young has won 15 races from his past 25 starters. That’s Jason ‘the GOAT’ Grimson like. I […]
In a previous life I was a union official successfully negotiating national collective agreements for TV and radio stations, major councils, sporting bodies and national government departments. The one common thread to all was unity: unity of people and unity of purpose. Unity of people as in all rowing the same boat in the same […]
