G'day all,

As we all know, a couple of days ago an announcement was made that Luke McCarthy had scored a Boldenone positive...and then somewhat predictably, all Hell broke loose here on this Forum.

Earlier today it came to pass that Barry Lew also has a positive, scored on same night at the same track for the same substance and yet, just as I predicted on the day that the announcement about Luke was made, so far not so much as a peep from those who a couple of days ago rather publicly & en masse sought to damn Luke to Hell for his alleged transgression.

Now I'm not wanting the roof to similarly fall in on Barry in the way it did on Luke, not at all. Far from it. Anything like that would be just as big a disgrace as this very thread has periodically been since it was started by the now banned 'Stonie' aka (fill in multiple ID's here).

Rather what I am endeavouring to highlight here is the absolutely disgraceful, duplicitous nature of the way in which positives for various/respective Trainers are apparently being met by some sections of the Industry here in NSW.

If it's Luke McCarthy, clearly the Peanut Gallery has been lying in wait for him and they're all over him like starving seagulls swooping on a bucket of hot chips, the due process of it all be damned. Now that Barry has also been mentioned in dispatches and..........well, you could hear a pin drop.

Apparently in the Court of Public Opinion....some get hung, some get a pass ?.

Apparently the reaction depends wholly and solely on who you are, how often you're beating your opposition and where you sit on the Premiership Table.

Apparently...it has/there is a HUGE jealousy component to it as well.

Talk about running with the Fox and hunting with the Hounds.

They are both good blokes, they are both excellent Trainers...but obviously it's Luke that is training a big team, a big public stable, he is leading the NSW Premiership by wide open lengths & seemingly because of that and that alone, he has taken/ is taking the majority if not all of the heat from certain sections of the Industry.

To me it just goes to show that such transgressions, be they perceived or actual, be they proven or alleged, are generally being seen through the clearly rather warped prism of whether or not the person who scores it was the one who beat you last time you went to the track, this as opposed to any legal/moral/level playing field implications that it may or may not carry. I wish I could have been on as good a thing at the track. I'd have had the house on it.

As always...Derryn Hinch said it best. Shame. Shame. Shame.


Incidentally, according to the Newcastle results on December 9th, there's no notation.
Apparently Karloo Kix wasn't swabbed???????????????

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