Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Cross Counter wins the 2018 Melbourne Cup. Was it doped? Is the Pope a Catholic? An FBI wiretap played to the jury on Monday in the trial of corrupt vet and doping mastermind Seth Fishman contains clear suggestions that Godolphin had been operating a $2 million doping program based out of the Dubai Equine Hospital, […]
This ad is up on Harness Trading Ring as we speak. The screenshot was taken 90 seconds ago. $25,000 THE FORTUNATE SON NR74 7yr old roll with joe gelding fig form this season – 11 Won on Tuesday in 1.50.4 after racing on Saturday so 2 day backup, also won last week in 1.52 Very […]
If you owned a horse who had just run 1.49.4 at Menangle with the driver swinging against it, and the Miracle Mile was only 28 days away, would you be selling it for just $25 000? Not in a million years. Yet David Grima is selling The Fortunate Son for exactly that, as we speak. […]
Yeah, some folks inherit star-spangled eyes They send you down to war And when you ask ’em, “How much should we give?” They only answer, “More, more, more” Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son On the same day that our research about EPO cheating in racing was published world-wide, it was fitting that the pacer […]
Some things that Racing Queensland do just leave you shaking your head and asking yourself “what the hell were they thinking?” For reasons unable to be discussed, the publication of this 3 page feature spread in the last edition of Race Magazine (the old racing calendar) is one of those things. What were they thinking? […]
The Black Horse is newsletter written by leading Irish racing writer Will Jones, author of a series of books of the same name about drug use and corruption in UK and Irish racing, particularly within the global Coolmore racing and breeding operation. Will’s hard-hitting quarterly newsletter is read by tens of thousands of racing participants, […]
As racing scandals increase around the world, Archie’s dogged detective work over the last two years has uncovered one of the major drugs used in New Zealand that enables trotters and pacers in harness racing to break track records by impossible margins. Erythropoietin Is a hormone produced naturally by the kidneys which assists the production […]
Poor old Nathan Jack. He’s only been back in the game for five minutes, and a horse kicks him fair in the head. It must hurt like hell, but I guess he’s probably used to it. After all, Brent Fisher and the HRV Integrity Team have been kicking Nathan in the teeth for years now. […]
We wrote yesterday about the outrageous decision in the case of leading SA jockey Jason Holder, who switched his dirty urine sample for one that was clean, deceived and lied to Stewards, and then finally threw a positive test result to banned substances when forced to do a second test. In a disgraceful decision that […]
