FOUR POSITIVE SWABS INVOLVING TRAINER CLINTON MCDONALD

RACING Victoria Limited (RVL) Stewards today received a report from Racing Analytical Services Limited (RASL) confirming four positive swabs have been returned by three horses trained by Clinton McDonald.

The report pertains to the following post race urine samples taken from horses trained by Mr McDonald:

IT has not taken long for Australia’s best steward, Terry Bailey, to talk about implementing in Victoria some of the ideas he gleaned during a recent overseas trip.

Bailey is keen to discuss with industry stakeholders the prospects of a lock-down of runners in retention barns in the 24 hours leading up to the Melbourne Cup – a suggestion that will no doubt provoke a mixed reaction from some leading trainers.

 

STAR American galloper, Cannonball, is settling into his new home in quarantine at the Sandown Racecourse after flying in from Hong Kong today (Tuesday).

The internationally accomplished sprinter-miler travelled well according to foreman Declan Murphy and arrives in Melbourne in great order despite a hectic year’s racing.

WE WISH YOU A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS ON BEHALF OF THOSE WHO ENJOY BRINGING YOU THE LETSGOHORSERACING WEB-SITE.

WITHOUT THE SUPPORT OF YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES FEW RACING PEOPLE WOULD EVEN KNOW THAT WE EXIST.

INGLIS Bloodstock have announced that the inaugural Inglis Guineas, to be run on Scone Cup Day, Friday May 14, 2010, will be the richest race in country Australia.

The $770,000 race includes a first prize of $500,000, with prizemoney paid down to 16th position.

LOCALS and holidaymakers are spoilt for choices in Victoria this festive season with 32 thoroughbred race meetings programmed across the state.

There are three metropolitan meetings, 23 country meetings and six picnic meetings on offer from Boxing Day, 26 December until Sunday, 3 January.

MELBOURNE Racing Radio station Sport 927 has sacked morning host Steve Moran only weeks after his controversial run-in with a couple of key identities in the Victorian racing industry.

Moran had a heated debate with TABCORP boss, Robert Nason, when he went into bet for the punters then fell foul of leading owner, Lloyd Williams, when he made comments that saw the stable impose a media ban on TVN on Sandown Classic day.

MAGIC MILLIONS owner Gerry Harvey celebrated a Christmas bonus when Palacio De Cristal and Parfumier ran the quinella in the Group II Villiers Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.

Trainer Grahame Begg bounced back from the disappointment of the defeat of All Silent in Hong Kong a week earlier when Palacio De Cristal stormed home to win at $6.50 after $12 had been bet in early Fixed Odds markets.

THE Merger Benefits Team has agreed that key club and industry reforms are necessary to deliver a positive future for Sydney Racing.

Whilst in principle reforms have been agreed in many areas, not all relevant information had been collected and made available(including the RNSW Strategic Plan and the Tax Review commissioned by the Clubs) to allow a full package of informed recommendations to be agreed by the Clubs and put to the Minister by mid December 2009.

RACING Victoria Limited (RVL) has announced an enhancement to Super VOBIS - Victorian thoroughbred racing’s lucrative breeding and racing incentive scheme which last season distributed over $6 million in bonuses to eligible owners and breeders.

RVL has introduced the Super VOBIS Rebate which provides the nominators of eligible youngsters sold interstate the chance to earn a return on their investment.

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