Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A lot of people including myself were wondering why the hell former NSW harness racing Chief Steward Grant Adams resigned a few months ago to take up the lesser role of Deputy Chief with Harness Racing Victoria. It was announced at the time as being for family reasons, and no doubt it is, but the […]
The word on the street is that a prominent racehorse trainer who has received all the favours in the world is about to be forced to take his medicine. They say that the bloke who helped him cover up his crimes is too. Sean Carroll is the ORIC Commissioner in Victoria. I hear he is […]
This appears in todays Courier-Mail. ————————————————– Besieged RSPCA Queensland boss Darren Maier has told staff he is ‘okay’ and vowed to ‘stand up and defend’ the organisation against what he calls an ‘assault’ on its reputation. Mr Maier, Chief Executive, wrote to the RSPCA’s 400 employees on Tuesday following News Corp’s revelations of turmoil within the […]
Changes have been made to the rules around blood spinning in the harness racing industry. But Harness Racing New Zealand is refusing to go public with the revised rules. The process of blood spinning, also known as ACS or PRP, involves collecting blood from the horse using a needle, processing it in a laboratory, and […]
Dr Michael Henley Rewei Brown. Mobile equine veterinary surgeon. Rangiora. Just across the road from Woodend Beach. No office to speak of, but a great big back yard with a driveway that would fit a float, and brick walls all around. Presently in possession of the blood spinning machine formerly the property of Equine Blood […]
Harness Racing NSW has a huge problem. The new CEO of the Riverina Paceway that HRNSW brought over from Canada with the future view of assuming John Dumesny’s job when he retires is an avid anti-vaxer who refusesto get the jab. But the rules are that if you are not vaxed you can’t go to […]
EFFECTS OF NICKEL ON EPO PRODUCTION Almost 40 years ago the group of Hopfer discovered that the intra-renal injection of nickel compounds (αNi3S2, NiO, NiS2, βNiS, Ni dust) produces an increase in circulating EPO and erythrocytosis in rats (6). The intra-renal injection of Ni3S2 was also effective in guinea pigs but not in in hamsters or […]
Rugby Union in Australia has always been run by conservatives, private school tory boys turned men whose most fervent desire is to cling on to a fast and ever-fading past. Modern day men in suits and ties who dream at night of being first year fags in Tom Brown’s Schooldays stories. Its why Rugby is […]
History Fagging originated as a structure for maintaining order in boarding schools, when schoolmasters’ authority was practically limited to the classroom. Thomas Arnold, headmaster of Rugby from 1828 to 1841, defined fagging as the power given by the authorities of the school to the Sixth Form, to be exercised by them over younger boys.[1] Fagging was a fully established […]
This is race 2 at Gatton on Monday. If Michael Hellyer wasn’t a good horseman and jockey he might well be dead or in a wheelchair for life as we speak. There was a hole in the track where his horse fell. You can’t see it in the videos, but multiple trainers and jockeys have […]
