Just what you don't need during a carnival! There's been a security scare at the stables of Brisbane trainer Barry Baldwin. As a result, the Brisbane Racing Club has tightened security around the Eagle Farm stables precinct. Apparently, it was a botched attempt to nobble a horse from the Baldwin camp. Baldwin says someone gained entry to his stable and tried to inject an 'unknown substance' into the neck of three-year-old filly Saraji, who was entered for Monday's Doomben meeting but did not acc
Just what you don't need during a carnival! There's been a security scare at the stables of Brisbane trainer Barry Baldwin. As a result, the Brisbane Racing Club has tightened security around the Eagle Farm stables precinct. Apparently, it was a botched attempt to nobble a horse from the Baldwin camp. Baldwin says someone gained entry to his stable and tried to inject an 'unknown substance' into the neck of three-year-old filly Saraji, who was entered for Monday's Doomben meeting but did not accept. BB says he noticed the marks on Saraji's neck once they became infected and swelled up. Baldwin notified Racing Queensland stewards as soon as he saw the filly had been injected. "There were 12 of them and they were on either side of her neck, along the vein where injections are given," Baldwin says on his website.
Modern technology may have been presented a different picture for history than Phar Lap's historic farewell 80 years ago, but Black Caviar's departure from Melbourne Airport on Wednesday night was every bit historic. Sporting her now famous compression suit, Australia's undefeated champion boarded a Singapore Airlines 747 Cargo Freighter at 11pm (AET) in her modified Air-Stable bound for London with stopovers in Singapore and Sharjah. Her 30 hour door-to-door journey will be completed when she's floated from London's Heathrow Airport to her UK training base at Newmarket. (Latest news: BC has landed OK in Singapore).