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Trainer Darren Smith has been banned for 15-years by Racing NSW Stewards on Friday for 42 charges relating to cobalt use. Racing NSW Stewards say Smith had purchased a product from disqualified Harness Racing identity Shannon Wonson and embarked on an admitted course of conduct to inject multiple horses in his stable. The Newcastle trainer admitted injecting horses with a substance given to him by a disqualified harness racing trainer and which he understood to be a blood booster, after initially denying he had administered cobalt. Stewards handed down the heavy penalty citing Smith's previous poor record of drug-related offences. It was Smith's tenth offence regarding prohibited substances since 1989. Earlier this month Stewards found Smith guilty on charges relating to 21 positive samples. He had been charged under three different rules for each of the offences, but after finding him guilty of two, found it was unnecessary to rule on the third. A total of 17 runners from 20 race starts returned positive samples for cobalt for races between February and May in 2014.
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Racing Victoria’s Head of Integrity Services, Terry Bailey, has defended the national Cobalt threshold that resulted in three trainers being issu...
There has been another cobalt positive in Victoria, with the Terry and Karina O’Sullivan -trained Darragh returning a sample with the prohibited...
The Victorian trainers facing cobalt charges won’t be allowed to receive any prizemoney earned from Group or Listed races in this state until the...
A fourth horse trained by Danny O’Brien has returned an elevated Cobalt reading, reports Racing Victoria. Racing Victoria (RV) Stewards have in...
Judge Russell Lewis, outgoing chairman of the Racing and Appeals Disciplinary Board, has handed down potentially career-ending guilty verdicts to...
Kembla Grange trainer Paul Murray has pleaded not guilty to eight charges issued by Racing NSW stewards, in relation to elevated cobalt readings...
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Each to his own. Know the old saying? In a way, it sums up betting. Some punters like to bet for a win, others for a place, still others love the quinellas or trifectas, or doubles. It's all a mat...
Victoria can proudly boast many of the best country racetracks in Australia. Quite a number of them offer spacious, testing courses which offer every runner a chance. The best courses, in my opi...
I’ve spent years trying to beat the TAB and bookies and I’ve lost my bank more times than I can remember. There have been a few big wins; as many as a man with only three fingers could count on ...
The late Don Scott once wrote that the best form of exotic betting is the trifecta. I think he was right. Don said picking a trifecta winning bet was a test of skill rather than a game of chance. ...
Greyhound racing is probably the best system under which a punter in Australia can risk - or rather, invest - his hard earned dough. To my way of thinking there is nothing so good as a standout "...
Can any Practical Punting Monthly readers remember back to the 'dark' days before 1985, when there wasn't such a magazine as this? Doesn't bear thinking about, does it? In those bygone days, punt...
There are so many racetracks in Australia, all of varying sizes and designs, that punters must investigate the 'form' of these tracks, as well as the form of the horses. It is important to know ...
They call it 'deep state' handicapping. It's the method used by shrewd computer geeks to make millions of dollars on Hong Kong racing. The average punter has no idea of the penetrating analys...
Talk to any number of racing professionals and ask them to name the key 10 factors in their form analysis and you are likely to receive differing answers! It's the nature of the game. Everyone has...
If there's one thing that makes the four Melbourne racecourses stand out it is their complete difference to each other. You have the spacious, sweeping bends of Flemington, with its long 453 m h...
Good news...Champion sprinter Black Caviar has been cleared of any cobalt issue that might have affected her winning performance in the 2011 TJ Smith Stakes at Randwick. NSW chief steward Ray...
Newcastle trainer Darren Smith faces a lengthy disqualification when Racing NSW stewards reconvene their inquiry into his cobalt-related charges later this month, reports Racing Network. On Tuesd...
High profile trainers Mark Kavanagh and Danny O'Brien have been banned for three years and four years respectively for administering cobalt to horses for performance-enhancing purposes. Both Kava...
Racing Victoria’s Head of Integrity Services, Terry Bailey, has defended the national Cobalt threshold that resulted in three trainers being issued notification of elevated readings during the we...
There has been another cobalt positive in Victoria, with the Terry and Karina O’Sullivan -trained Darragh returning a sample with the prohibited substance in its system. The positive swab came ...
The Victorian trainers facing cobalt charges won’t be allowed to receive any prizemoney earned from Group or Listed races in this state until their cases are resolved. Racing Victoria stewar...
A fourth horse trained by Danny O’Brien has returned an elevated Cobalt reading, reports Racing Victoria. Racing Victoria (RV) Stewards have informed O’Brien that the urine sample taken from Bu...
Judge Russell Lewis, outgoing chairman of the Racing and Appeals Disciplinary Board, has handed down potentially career-ending guilty verdicts to trainers Danny O'Brien, Mark Kavanagh and Melbour...
Kembla Grange trainer Paul Murray has pleaded not guilty to eight charges issued by Racing NSW stewards, in relation to elevated cobalt readings detected in Alma's Fury , reports racing.com. ...