Stewards News

[Exhilarator]

Unfortunately in Victoria we have to put up with RAD and obviously the chairpeople have no idea about the difference between suspension and disqualification .Nothing worse than racing people who have obviously tried to gain an unfair advantage but have only been suspended when found guilty.

[arlington]

Unfortunately in Victoria we have to put up with RAD and obviously the chairpeople have no idea about the difference between suspension and disqualification .Nothing worse than racing people who have obviously tried to gain an unfair advantage but have only been suspended when found guilty.

G'day John. Hope Kev gives you a big warm welcome to the forum.
Am assuming you received this today https://us7.campaign-archive.com/?u=...&id=0987f038dd the first edition of Integrity Matters

Pretty sure anyone can subscribe to the mailing list via this link https://us7.campaign-archive.com/hom...&id=761f08fcd6 so I imagine the stewards and integrity department won't mind me making the link available here and spreading the word.

Quote Originally Posted by Messenger
Darren Cole gets 12mths even though Mr Conder appearing for HRV stewards
"conceded that cobalt was not performance enhancing"
http://www.harness.org.au/NEWS/news2...20Jan%2018.pdf

Something that may need clarifying. From Kev's link "conceded that cobalt was not performance enhancing" whereas the Integrity Matters link refers to cobalt ...can be misused and at high levels within the body acts as a Hypoxia Inducible Factor (HIF-1) stabiliser, Am not a chemist so maybe I'm missing somethng but HIF-1 does increase red blood cell numbers, hence performance enhancing hence banned?

Perhaps David, being forum member David Martin, could help sort out here please? Especially in light of Dan's post.