cobalt

[thepacingman]

Another gallops hearing with strong harness racing connections.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/superra...-1227470041802

[Messenger]

It is becoming depressing. One cannot help but wonder whether half the industry is shady

[barney]

The first 3 cobalt charges in Qld likely to be thrown out today on a technicality.

[Njcstables]

http://www.news.com.au/sport/superra...-1227471709538
There is a link to story barney.

[barney]

It means that the 3 will be able to and i expect to be given the right to train again.Another nail in the coffin to the sport i have loved for most of my life sadly im now over it completely

[Messenger]

I'm afraid that heads need to roll over this mistake - it is INEXCUSABLE. Does the Qld integrity department have no protocols in place - "Oh we need a second test, let's look up an old yellow pages and stick a pin in the laboratories page"

http://www.harnesslink.com/Australia...-in-Queensland

RQ acting chief executive Ian Hall said:

"it does affect a lot of the past work and reinforces the fact that everyone has to be diligent and dot every ‘i’ and cross every ‘t’ when prosecuting these cases."

Well who would have imagined that you have to dot every i and cross every t when you are prosecuting people Ian!

[Messenger]

I'm almost embarassed for Max Presnell if this featherweight piece is the best he can come up with nowadays

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/horse...07-giub0k.html

[DRUIDRACING]

He is like most gallop writers or commentators who are a part of the propaganda campaign to deflect the seriousness of the illegal use of chemicals in that industry. Ray Thomas said one saturday morning basically its a nothing this cobalt. The failure of authorities to actually deal with the matters in hand one wonders what will be the penalties.........fine, slap on wrist maybe for the Melbourne trainers coming into there BIG time for them. All will be forgotten when they win the big races again therefore almost condoning the use of the chemicals. Its fortunate they weren"t in NSW as they would be stood down by now.

[Messenger]

We have far more than the writers to worry about however eg Australian Turf Club executive manager of racing

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/horse...11-giwh0y.html

but at least Vic now has a cobalt testing lab

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/horse...10-givolm.html

[squaregaiter]

just trying to catch up on some reading after 5 weeks off and in this thread there is a common denominator and it seems it just dosnt just lie with the colbalt