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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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Australian horse racing form study usually stops at picking the horse: you do the form, then walk up and take whatever price is showing on the board. In Practical Punting in October 2000, Richard H...
Australian horse racing form study often ends the same way: an hour on the form guide, and a bet on the one whose name you liked. Writing in Practical Punting in September 2000, Richard Hartley Jnr...
Track conditions and weight are the two Australian horse racing form factors most punters skim over — "the in-a-hurry punters of modern day racing", as Richard Hartley Jnr put it in Practical Punti...
Australian horse racing form study often ends the same way: an hour on the form guide, half the field circled, and still no idea which one to back. Writing in Practical Punting Magazine, Richard Ha...
Most of a Saturday card is not worth studying — which is why Australian horse racing form study starts with picking the race, not the horse. Writing in Practical Punting in June 2000, Richard Ha...
Before you rate a single horse, Australian horse racing form study starts with a question about the race itself: is it even worth analysing? Writing in Practical Punting in May 2000, Richard Hartle...
Don Scott's first book turned the racing world upside down, and it did it with ratings: for the first time an Australian horse racing punter could put a figure on the race, then a figure on every r...
The 6-Point Divisor Plan is an Australian horse racing staking plan from 1989, and the thing that keeps it survivable is not the arithmetic — it is the safety brake. You run into four losers in a r...
Weight ratings or speed ratings? Philip Roy tested both on Australian horse racing form, three months at the Sydney tracks, and one of them finished a long way in front. Writing in Practical Puntin...
In Australian horse racing, 99 per cent of punters fail to make money over a 12-month period — and exotic betting is where they lose fastest. Don Scott, a professional punter who spent the sixties ...
Peter and Paul Snowden are still tossing up what to do with their classy newcomer Pied A Terre, who notched his second big win at Flemington. Paul says Pied A Terre does everything so easily that i...
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Same jockey, same trainers – sort of – but different Sheikh Mohammed. That was the tale of this year’s William Hill Blue Diamond Stakes , won so impressive by Pride Of Dubai on Saturday at Caul...
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Three horses formerly trained by Peter Snowden will represent Australia at the gala opening of the $2 billion Meydan racetrack, built by Sheikh Mohammed, in Dubai tonight, reports John Holloway.The...
Trainer Tony McEvoy is closing his Sydney stable, opting to focus on his Victorian and South Australian operations. Three years after purchasing Bylong Park at Hawkesbury and taking his racing ...