Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Do you remember the story we told you about a month ago about how the Stewards in the Hanging State convicted NSW trot trainer Jared Hetherington and disqualified him for 2 years for a cobalt positive that wasn’t, because the confirmatory lab test on his horse’s sample came back under the threshold Well today J. […]
Gavin “Group 1 Gav” Eades – featured in the video above after winning the 1994 Doncaster Handicap, before he descended into drug and alcohol fueled madness – will appear before the Racing Victoria Stewards on Wednesday to face charges over his digraceful behavior at a recent race meeting at Caulfield. Eades – who has lost […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/wa/PAC24112509.mp4 I am the perfect person to judge this, because I backed both of them. They were very similar drives. G. Hall Jr’s drive on Skyklou at Pinjarra was very, very good. But James Herbertson’s drive on Steel The Moment in R2 at Horsham was better. Take a look yourself above at Hall (blue and […]
CRAHP President Cranitch (pictured): A Red Hot Racing Fan With a Cool Solution to the Heat Stress Conundrum Deputy QRIC Commissioner Kim Kelly has been courting controversy in QLD country racing circles recently over the well-intended application of his new Caring For Animals in Extreme Heat Policy that was developed using the classic consultation method […]
Harness Racing in Victoria is in an awful mess. Years of poor governance and management, featuring prizemoney raised to levels during the COVID-19 betting boom that could never be sustainable, a bloated bureaucracy at all levels, and non-racing expenses ballooning out of control, has left the sport all but destitute and forced to surrender the […]
If you thought the South Australians were stupid for allowing a woman on the drink to lie on the ground next to the barriers at the start of the race at Clare, then how about this at Evangaline Downs in America last night? They let the race start while a bloody ambulance on the track! […]
If, as we are told that it has, the sample taken from Sure Thing Captain while in the retention barn at Menangle has tested positive for the presence of bisphosphonate, it raises an issue of critical importance to all NSW harness racing participants. We know, and Harness Racing NSW does too, that the sophisticated type […]
Picture – the retention barn at Menangle The mail filtering through is that the substance that QLD trained pacer Sure Thing Captain threw a positive swab to while in HRNSW Menangle retention barn was a class of drug called a bisphosphonate. Bisphosphonates are a class of drugs used in the human world to treat bone […]
Trainers and Veterinarians are advised that the use of bisphosphonates can lead to prolonged and unpredictable detection times. Bisphosphonates are pharmaceutical agents that interfere with normal bone remodelling processes. There are currently only two (2) products containing bisphosphonates registered with the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA): • Tildren Injection for Horses (tiludronic acid […]
Health and safety standards are clearly not of a particularly high standard in South Australia. These images are of the start of race 8 at Clare on Sunday. The woman in the right hand corner with the bloke in shorts has clearly had a few. She takes and sip and then decides to have a […]
