G'day Bill
You certainly hit the nail on the head with the disparity between harness and gallops, I take your point re: prizemoney v penalty. But as a harness fan, I can only see this in a good light for our sport. People would shake their heads in disbelief if you were to tell Joe Average that harness penaltys in relation to drugs is dealt with in the harshest of terms compared to their thoroughbred brothers, especially in NSW since July when the new extremely tough (but warranted) penaltys were introduced.
You raised a good point with those two gallops trainers being fined for two very interesting reasons. Financially inadequate in the case of Brett Bellamy who was found to have an unmarked and unidentified substance in his stable $2,400 in total for what could have been the latest rocket fuel available or just plain water, the public will never know. See the link
http://www.racingnsw.com.au/default....splay&id=13034
Then old mate Luke Griffith gets pinged $5,300 in total for presenting Dysturb to the track with Prednisolone in its system, a drug most of our older relatives take as a given for their arthritis. Don't make 'em go faster but they sure feel better in themselves.
http://www.racingnsw.com.au/default....splay&id=13036
Hard to follow isn't it? They train under the same jurisdiction, but anyway thats the thoroughbreds.
Now Bill that little lapse in your memory relates to the Luke McCarthy thread, in particular posts #103 and #106. Now, I don't just give 'em away Bill, its 50/50 down the line, thats just the gentlemens way. Tune in to 13 November.