BOOM.....McCarthy Positive.

[Hawk]

Tiny, your obviously one of his many body guards, but if you read the press release it sounds like to me both the A and B sample have tested positive (australia and hong kong) Geez he's had a few scratchings lately as well..... And there not hitting the line as hard anymore. Coinsidence I'm sure.

See below - http://www.harness.org.au/news-article.cfm?news_id=17676

[Triple V]

Geeze, had to zap that...Indulkana? That's off in the whops.

[barney]

For the record I don't work for LM. IMO this should have been thrown out already there is clearly an error.
But lets go ahead charge him find him guilty and have appeal after appeal go through the court system for the next 5 years all the while damaging the integrity of harness racing.

Luke is the leading trainer and should be treated better than this.

So you are saying if you are a leading trainer dont worry about rules and regulations do as you want, Cheat if you if you like no wonder harness has a bad name.People like you should be banned from site for bringing sport down.Do i have to tell you in capital letters Luke has a positive swab from 2 tests and is now up to him to prove himself innocent.If he does great if not not he is human like the rest of us

[TSW]

........................If he does great if not not he is human like the rest of us
Sorry Brian, if he doesn't get off he's not human like us. He'll be branded a 'Cheat'. Not a lot of us humans, cheat.

[murray green]

Geeze, had to zap that...Indulkana? That's off in the whops.

IMO I didn't feel you had the right to put what you wrote yesterday , glad to see you zapped it .

Cheers .

[murray green]

Sorry Brian, if he doesn't get off he's not human like us. He'll be branded a 'Cheat'. Not a lot of us humans, cheat.

In this industry you are branded very very quickly & if proven guilty rightly so . But I feel its a long way off being resolved , although I hope not . Either guilty or not time will tell .

[Triple V]

IMO I didn't feel you had the right to put what you wrote yesterday , glad to see you zapped it .

Cheers .


[VVV] Turns out I should have trusted my instincts. He has since been banned.

For the record...here is the post in question.

Troy, I was just wondering...have you vistited the town of Indulkana in recent times?
From what I can gather it's a small place about 50km or so to the ENE of where your ISP suggests you are located, that being somewhere off in the munga around about 300km NNW of Coober Pedy, South Australia.
Then again, there is the possibility that I totally mis-speak and you are in fact currently on a journey of self discovery, a spiritual trek through the wilderness reminiscent of that undertaken by Christ himself, and you have simply stopped for a short break in the shade of a friendly salt bush and buzzed in on your satellite phone in order to catch up with recent happenings. That being the case, please accept my most sincere apologies.


Personally, I thought that was pretty bloody funny.
It's not my best work but it's in the same postcode.:p

[Greg Hando]

There is no error with the test's IMO the quicker it is all sorted out the better off we will all be .

[barney]

There is no error with the test's IMO the quicker it is all sorted out the better off we will all be .

On next Monday going by trots tv.
We will soon know the truth.

[barney]

Adjourned until 26/4/12 Mach wiper cleared to resume racing details in stewards wrap on harness.org

[The Form Student]

When you get caught by the breathalyser, you are either LOW, MEDIUM or HIGH, penalties are dished out on the level achieved........if they want total transparency with their operation, they must release the level as a matter of course!

At least in NZ the actual readings for positive swabs are being given in stewards reports!!!!!!!!!!

Cambridge harness racing driver and conditioner Todd Mitchell has been disqualified from training and driving for a year and fined $2,150 for three charges between July 28 and July 1, 2010. His sentence begins on April 19 to allow him to make arrangements for his horses.

The charges were as follows:
(a) On the 28th day of April 2011 Todd William Mitchell was the Trainer and the person for the time being in charge of the horse COVERT ACTION which was presented to race in race 4, the Supporters Pack May 19th Mobile Pace, at a race meeting conducted by the Cambridge-Te Awamutu Harness Racing Club at Cambridge Raceway, when a pre-race blood sample taken from COVERT ACTION was found upon analysis to have a TC02 level of 36.4 mmol/L, in breach of the provisions of Rules 1004(1A), 1004(1) and 1004(2).
(b) On the 17th day of June 2011 Todd William Mitchell was the trainer and the person for the time being in charge of the horse SKIP BO which was presented to race in race 1, the Grand Hotel Mobile Pace, at a race meeting conducted by the Auckland Trotting Club at Alexandra Park, when a pre-race blood sample taken from SKIP BO was found upon analysis to have a TC02 level of 36.5 mmol/L, in breach of the provisions of Rule 1004(1A), 1004(1) and 1004(2) of the Rules of Harness Racing.
(c) On the 1st day of July 2011 Todd William Mitchell was the person for the time being in charge of the horse ANVILS DELIGHT which was presented to race in race 8, the Placemakers Thames and Whitianga Mobile Pace, at a race meeting conducted by the Thames Harness Racing Club at Alexandra Park, when a pre-race blood sample taken from ANVILS DELIGHT was found upon analysis to have a TC02 level of 36.4 mmol/L, in breach of the provisions of Rule 1004(1A) and 1004(3) of the Rules of Harness Racing.