Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
In a further continuation of the outrageously inept integrity situation in Queensland at present, there were no swab attendants on duty at the TAB meeting at the Sunshine Coast yesterday. As a result no pre-race blood or any other type of swabs were taken from any runner. The only swabs taken were urine samples from […]
Ten years ago, way back in the year 2012 when Julia Gillard was Australian PM, a pacer named Dream Out Loud finished fourth to the previous season’s Victoria Derby champion Gold Ace and the later triple NZ Cup winner Terror To Love in the Group 2 4YO Superstars race at Addington. A year later he ran […]
Dear Ms Rinker My name is Archibald Butterfly, and I am a harness racing writer from Queensland, Australia. I author the widely read Australian harness racing website peterprofit.com I am also a previous owner of harness racing horses in the United States of America through my involvement with Winners Circle Racing, and in that ownership role […]
Dear Mr Max J. Hempt, President My name is Archibald Butterfly, and I am a harness racing writer from Queensland, Australia. I author the widely read Australian harness racing website peterprofit.com I am also a previous owner of harness racing horses in the United States of America through my involvement with Winners Circle Racing, and […]
It has been discovered that Perfect Sting had a positive test back on June 26, 2021, when he was second then placed first in the $148,332 Pennsylvania Sire Stake for harness racing 3-year-old male pacers at The Meadows. A split sample was also sent to the labs and was found to be also positive for testosterone. […]
Stuart Janney III stood in his box seat lounge high above the grandstands at Belmont Park in Elmont, N.Y. It was the middle of 2015’s fall season, and three of his horses were running that day. Janney is a member of horse racing’s patrician elite: His family started one of the sport’s most fabled breeding […]
Janney needed to go in a different direction. He reached out to Travis Tygart, the chief executive officer of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency. A few years earlier, when the agency was probing whether Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong had used performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), the Jockey Club had invited Tygart to speak at its annual […]
The clip went viral on horse racing blogs, and the New Jersey Racing Commission fined Navarro $5,000 for “conduct detrimental to racing.” He and Gindi explained that they knew they were being filmed and were just being sarcastic, trolling a rival owner who’d called them cheaters. “Everyone wants to pick on Navarro when I win a race,” […]
At tracks across the U.S., owners and trainers told similar stories, leading investigators to believe the phenomenon was not simply a local problem. That meant there were major domestic, and perhaps international, suppliers of PEDs. In 2014, while investigating USA Cycling, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency had received a tip that a lab in South Florida […]
Eight days later, in another intercepted call, Navarro told an assistant trainer he needed “joint blockers,” which mask a horse’s ability to feel discomfort. Navarro ordered the drugs from the South Florida lab and then told the courier to impersonate the horse’s owner to bypass nosy race officials at Gulfstream. According to court documents later […]
