Want Your Heart Broken?
There is not much I can say. The video says it all. Poor bloody kid. How brave is he? Give generously.
Where in the World is Swiftbet? – Not at Flemington, That’s For Sure
Swiftbet are one of the four bookies fielding at the Call of the Card. They’ve gained a great deal of free currency out of it. But not enough to get them to turn up at Derby Day today. The Swiftbet stand was a ghost town. No bookie was there. It wasn’t a very good look […]
Like Lemmings Over a Cliff
Whoever said horses aren’t herd animals? They were wrong.
Wanna Buy Your Dad a Pony For Xmas?
Wanna buy your Dad a pony for Xmas? N40 has 31 of them to sell. We don’t know which ones they are because the catalogue is not up yet, but you’d imagine they are either reasonably well bred or performed. None of the yearlings N40 bought in NZ this year are likely to be included […]
Who is Next For a Spot in the Ultimate Drivers Challenge? – David Fowler? Bonno? Me?
Trista Dixon is a skilled and experienced trot driver and although I haven’t met her personally is by all reports a very nice person too, so I mean no disrespect to her or criticism of her personally in any way when I say what I am about to say. All I am doing is telling […]
The Swabs Show There are Drugs at Callaghan Park – But is There Asbestos Buried at the Track Too?
According to information that we have received from people who would know, the barrier attendant who returned a positive preliminary reading to a banned substance during this week’s impromptu drug testing operation at the Callaghan Park racecourse was none other than the banned trainer Nick Walsh’s father Troy. The irony is that not only is […]
Exclusive – How Long Has HRNSW Known or Suspected That the ‘Safe’ Wormer Fenbender 100 Contains Levamisole?
How long has Harness Racing NSW suspected or known that the ‘safe’ horse wormer Fenbender 100 contains the prohibited substance Levamisole? We have received credible information suggesting that the product containing Levamisole tested by the ARFL lab was purchased from a certain Garrards store by a member of the HRNSW Integrity Team using a company […]
Discovery of Levamisole in Commercial Horse Wormer Throws the Hanging State’s Disqualification Regime into Disarray
We have written numerous times about the spate of positive swabs to Levamisole that have been recorded in NSW in recent years, and have repeatedly raised the question of why the Hanging State appeared to be the only jurisdiction in which positives to the substance were being thrown. The news published yesterday that the commonly […]
Warning – Fenbender 100
30 October 2025 As a result of a HRNSW investigation, the Australian Racing Forensic Laboratory (ARFL) have detected traces of Levamisole in a sample of Fenbender 100. An image of this product is provided for your information. Until further notice, as Levamisole is a prohibited substance, trainers are cautioned in relation to the use […]
Not All Claimed Test Results are Correct – (First Published 23 May 2023: Told You So Didn’t We?)
Extract from HRNSW Stewards findings in the positive swab case of trainer Kerry Ann Morris The highest concentrations of levamisole residues were found in the liver in all species tested. In cattle, sheep and goats, at 7 days after treatment, the yeast residues in the liver samples were below 100/g/kg. At 14 days, they were […]