Leading British jockey Robbie Dunne has reportedly now admitted to a breach of the rules of horse racing by way of his conduct towards fellow rider Bryony Frost. The British Horseracing Authority’s independent disciplinary panel heard on Tuesday how Dunne had bullied and harassed Frost with sexually charged language, a ….
New Zealand thoroughbred trainer Allan Sharrock (57), one of the top trainers in the current season, has been cleared of all charges related to traces of methamphetamine discovered in the blood of two racehorses who recently tested positive for the drug at the Awapuni racecourse in Palmerston North. Reliable Miss ….
It has now been confirmed that one of the two jockeys stood down at a Southland race event’s test results have been returned as negative. According to a stipendiary steward’s report issued after the Ascot Park meet in May, several riders underwent random routine drug tests, including Corey Campbell and ….
Prominent harness racing trainer Mitchell Kerr has been banned from the sport for life. Despite Kerr’s best and desperate attempts to hide from the sport’s Judicial Complaints Authority the fact that he had sold to an Australian businessman a non-existing horse, the damning information recently emerged has now led to ….
A group of harness racing trainers from Canterbury are being investigated following horse-doping allegations. The sport’s Racing Integrity Unit are currently investigating junior driver/trainer Jesse Alford after onlookers spotted him in the act of administering an unknown substance to two race horses at his Woodend Beach stables late last week. ….
A senior coroner has ruled out the likelihood that Grand National-winning jockey Liam Treadwell, who was found dead at his home in Shropshire, England, in June last year, had taken his own life. Said Coroner John Elleray earlier this week, brain injury would have been the probable turning point for ….
Shocking news this week is that New Zealand’s most successful horse racing stable is about to be disbanded. All Stars Racing will officially cease all training and operations on December 31, 2020. According owners and champion harness racing trainers Mark Purdon and Natalie Rasmussen, the call to disband follows their ….
Former national Kiwi harness racing star and national representative Matthew Anderson has been banned from competing for 6 months following his involvement in a drug deal with two fellow drivers. Anderson had reportedly sold ecstasy, which is in New Zealand classified a “Class B” drug, to two fellow drivers unnamed ….
Chrissy Bambry, Central Districts trainer, has lost no time getting wins on the board at the first of the Lower North Island’s Thoroughbred Meetings after a hiatus enforced by the novel coronavirus COVID-19. Spring Tide, a new addition to the stables, turned out to be an emphatic winner in the ….
New Cambridge Stud owners Brendan and Jo Lindsay vowed they’d fight back. Even in the middle of an incredibly difficult run of bad luck that saw the esteemed Thoroughbred stud have three stallions drop dead in a matter of months, the pair never gave up. They vowed that one day, ….