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Ive seen what epo does to a horse, I'll only tell under oath, but let me tell you doubting Thomas's, it puts lengths on them, they will run though brick walls, it will heal an open wound in days not weeks, just ask Lance Armstrong what it does.

This ITPP does the same thing, it's the ants pants, but it kills also, injected too quickly into the vein, they will drop, it causes heart attacks, it's the juice of choice for low bastards and I thank God the French have a LAB that can test for it.

If these snowball rumours become an avalanche I hope the FEDS do their thing with vigour, so far the FEDS have let us down, but I still have faith....for the horses sake.
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Hopefully some Australian labs can test for it
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote marble Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03 Jul 2020 at 7:28pm
the one disqualification that stands for Ben Curry is the Eight Over 12 month disqualification. Eight over was found to have Cocaine, methylecgonine ( a chemical intermediate derived from ecgonine or cocaine.) and benzolecgonine (corresponding carboxylic acid of cocaine)
12 months for coking up your horse.
He also faces District Court Criminal Charges yet to be heard. 




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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Gay3 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Jul 2020 at 3:47pm
Col Parker? to EX and current Jockeys and Trainers Club

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It's QLD, nothing more to be said, chaos one day, lunacy the next......
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Bonjour, I think they may have had the Corey Brown inquirey. Not certain though. On another matter, Archie Butterfly is letting rip about drug cheats on his peterprofit website. He is a one man crime fighter. Clap
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (1) Thanks(1)   Quote Bonjour Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 16 Jul 2020 at 8:39am
Agree Batman, this mornings edition is more than a great read is it not? If he's half right there will be some huge names reaching for toilet rolls big time!
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I am sure Matthew Dunn will be excited to see his glowing endorsement published. Hopefully, a great effort from his team Will not be overshadowed by dark stories. I am sure it is all an unfortunate coincidence. Embarrassed
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I wonder if the assault and subsequent 5K fine dished out by the stipes is just a 'dark story'.......ah, can't wait for all this to unfold.......
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I just googled Peter Profit Racing for the first time. WOW
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You've got some catching up to do Gencoe, enjoy.
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Sorry,.... Glencoe.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote linghi11 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 17 Jul 2020 at 9:55pm
Some interesting tidbits there today - police investigating RVL integrity personnel? Not a moment too soon
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Bang on the $$ Archie & likely stirred some action when there inially appeared to be none Clap
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A Queensland jockey has been slapped with a two-month riding ban for failing to give a $1.30 favourite every chance to win a race in Cairns last month.

Stewards took issue with Chris Whiteley's wide on Silent Explorer, with the raging hot favourite jumping out of the barriers first in a 1400m Open Handicap on June 25.

Whiteley restrained the Stephen Massingham-trained galloper back to second last in the seven-horse field.

The four-year-old gelding remained in second last spot before taking off from the 600m in a slowly run race, but finished second beaten half a length after not being able to reel in the leader Tambo's Heart.

Stewards concluded an inquiry on Monday - with Whiteley found guilty of failing to take all "reasonable and permissible measures throughout the race to ensure that the rider’s horse is given full opportunity to win or to obtain the best possible place in the field."

The full stewards' report, which included the conclusion of the inquiry, was not available on Tuesday morning but Queensland Racing Integrity Commissioner Ross Barnett confirmed Whiteley had been banned for two months.

"QRIC Stewards found Cairns Jockey Chris Whiteley guilty of a breach of AR129(2)," Barnett said.

"Stewards suspended jockey Whiteley for two months for his ride on Silent Explorer in the Open Handicap 1400m on 25 June 2020 to be served from midnight 4 August 2020 until midnight 4 October 2020."

It is understood Whiteley, who has five rides in Cairns on Tuesday, will seek an internal review of the stewards' decision.

That will enable him to keep riding for the next few weeks and then Whiteley has the option, under the long and cumbersome Queensland appeals system, to take the matter to the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal for further review.

You can watch the vision of the race HERE

Silent Explorer jumps from barrier one and is wearing orange colours.


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The allegations Archie directed at the Chief Steward are eye watering are they not? That he borrowed 15k from Mr Laxon the leading trainer in SING? How to God are we to have any confidence in this lot?

I see the Chief Steward has denied this, saying it was his former wife? I just don't believe this, I'm back in 1972 Joh's QLD....and I was!
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What an almighty balls up between RQ & the State govt Shocked My mind boggles at how many similarly affected non newsworthy participants there are Angry

Matt Dunn wants to 'set the record straight' over COVID protocol breach

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Trainer Matt Dunn unwittingly became national news last Saturday when the Doomben meeting was delayed due to a COVID-19 protocol scare involving a strapper and a driver from his stable.

The trainer who is based at Murwillumbah, in northern NSW, was unhappy with the way the confusing situation was handled by Queensland officials.

After a series of discussions with Racenet, Dunn says he feels "the record regarding the incident should be set straight."

The following is Dunn's account of the circumstances surrounding the incident, and is written in a statement in his own words:

Firstly we made an error with regards to our interpretation of the border bubble pass and transport exemption pass. One staff member, my truck driver, had a transport pass and the other had a border community pass.

There was a simple error in understanding the map supplied by Queensland Government. No one purposefully lied on the application nor did anyone try to sneak over the border. This is a Queensland Government issue and they will be dealing with it.  
 
On Friday 7/8/20 I received a call from a representative of Brisbane Racing Club asking if I would be in attendance at Doomben on Saturday. I advised I wouldn’t and I provided names and phone numbers of the two staff who would be attending.
 
At 9:40am on Saturday 8/8/20 I had a missed call and voice message from a representative of Racing Queensland. I returned the call at approximately 10:20am when I returned from my morning run. I was informed that Queensland Racing had reintroduced COVID policy which effectively banned all NSW staff from entering QLD racecourses. The representative was advised I had two staff that had probably already or would soon arrive at Doomben racecourse and this advice should have been provided a little earlier.

My two staff arrived at Doomben racecourse and were temperature checked and given access to the course as per the staff list at the security check point.
 
I received a phone call from one of my staff members while my horse was competing in race four advising they had been escorted from the course.
 
I then received a call from stewards attending the meeting advising my staff were in breach of Queensland Racing COVID protocol. I advised stewards that both staff members were in Queensland on a border pass and I was advised of this secret protocol far too late to act.
 
The staff were allowed to again access the course to care for the horse that had just raced and then left immediately.
 
I received a call from deputy chief steward Daniel Aurisch later that evening demanding both staff undergo COVID screening. This direction was followed and both tested negative.
 
At approximately 12pm on Sunday 9/8/20 all industry participants received a detailed copy of Queensland Racing’s new COVID policy via text and email.
 
At approximately 3pm 9/8/20 I received a call from a representative from the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission advising I would need to withdraw my 10 horses entered to barrier trial at the Gold Coast the following day as a decision had been made that interstate horses would no longer be permitted to trial effective immediately.
 
On Monday 10/8/20 I made arrangements for my two horses entered for Doomben to travel to Mick Lakey at Deagon on an approved commercial carrier and arrive on race day prior to race day scratching time  (7:30am) as per the new protocol.
 
On Tuesday 11/8/20 I receive a call from a QRIC rep advising that the protocol had changed and the horses were now required to arrive at a Queensland stable by 5pm the day prior to racing, hence both horses were scratched as it was impossible to arrange transport with such short notice and my own truck is forbidden from transferring the horses.

NOTE: Queensland Racing Integrity Commissioner Ross Barnett confirmed on Thursday morning that both participants had tested negative to coronavirus.


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Peterprofit may well be onto something with this mornings issue and the race and rider now subject to an inquiry up at Towoomba.

His attack on Gerald Ryan is going to bring some sad memories to quite a few of us though.

I'm ashamed to be a member of the racing industry when I read stories like this, I had just left Flemington when all this broke, we knew of the rumours, however, maybe, just maybe we should look at Dan Nikolic in a different light, and try to understand why he went the way he did.

I hope the truth comes out, our industry is famous for the boys club corruption, if, and I say if loosely, there is another investigation and the truths of cover up and protection are proved, then those responsible need to look at custodial sentences, and I don't care how high up they are.......it makes me sick and angry, as I know just where Archie Butterfly is coming from, and it's a fkn dark place indeed.
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Here we go again. 

Melbourne Cup winning jockey turned trainer Chris Munce is facing a stewards’ investigation after a no-notice stable inspection and CCTV stable footage revealed alleged evidence of one of his Saturday runners being injected within one clear day of racing.

Four-year-old Lady Brahmos had been the $3.10 favourite for the No Metro Wins Handicap at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

Stewards arrived at Munce’s Brisbane stables unannounced on Friday and allegedly found evidence of a recent injection mark and dried blood on the mare.

CCTV footage from Munce's stable which shows the trainer and a stablehand with the horse on Friday morning is also central to the stewards' case.

Rules of racing state horses must not be injected with anything within one clear day of racing without permission of stewards.

Lady Brahmos was scratched at 6.55pm on Friday night.

“The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) Integrity Investigations Team (IIT) inspection at the Munce stables allegedly found Lady Brahmos to have recently received an injection in contravention of the rules of racing,” the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission said.

Munce was interviewed via phone link by stewards at Eagle Farm on Saturday, as the stipes awaited an analysis of swabs taken from the horse.

Munce claimed ignorance about racing's one clear-day rule but admitted giving Lady Brahmos a vitamin drip on Friday.

Steward Wade Hadley asked Munce if that meant all of his horses had been given drips in the day before racing.

Munce said he had only treated Lady Brahmos because he had been ill on Thursday and gone home sick and then felt the mare needed a vitamin drip on Friday.

Munce further claimed he was confused when he was initially interviewed by stewards about the matter on Friday.

The drama follows Munce having his name recently published on the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission website for one of his horses recording a TCO2 level above 35.1 mmol/L.

A natural TCO2 level for horses is 28-32 millimoles per litre (mmol/L) in blood, but under the rules of racing, a test needs to exceed 36 before it’s deemed to be illegal.

QRIC published Munce galloper Skate To Paris as having a level higher than 35.1 on the day the mate won the Listed Brisbane Handicap last month.

Borderline TCO2 tests results are now published on the QRIC website – as they once were on the Racing Queensland website under a previous RQ administration.

QRIC commenced publishing the TCO2 levels  in response to a push sparked by a group of Brisbane trainers, including multiple Group 1 winner Rob Heathcote, who spoke out to Racenet over integrity concerns earlier this year.

In 2015, Munce hung up his riding saddle after a 30-year-career in which he became one of a small band of jockeys to complete the grand slam with wins in the Caulfieldand Melbourne Cups, Cox Plate and Golden Slipper.

His 1998 Melbourne Cup win on Jezabeel and the 2004 Cox Plate on Savabeel were two of his most cherished riding wins.

Munce’s career didn’t come without major challenges – jailed over the tips for bets scandal in Hong Kong and then surviving a battle against throat cancer.

Munce commenced training in Brisbane soon after retiring from riding – some of his biggest wins as a trainer have come with Boomsara who won the 2019 Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas and the Group 3 Vo Rogue Plate the year before.


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Crikey, no wonder so many horses are needlephobics when you have butchers administering Angry Correctly given, there should be no evidence at any time Stern Smile
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Must feel for Munce. He didn’t know the rule about administration, and he was confused because he had been ill. He must have been confused about some other things recently as well. 
No wonder there is no confidence in racing in Queensland. 
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Gee, Peter Profit didn't miss him, now if he's wrong Munce will sue, surely?
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Originally posted by Bonjour Bonjour wrote:

Gee, Peter Profit didn't miss him, now if he's wrong Munce will sue, surely?
He would have to do something to show that the article is incorrect. Very strong accusations, but if any of it is true, then something should be investigated. 
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I see peter finally took the profit part of his name seriously
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Could anyone post or pm a copy please? 
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Hey look, you can even use an arsenic treated fence post to mask your bleeder shot! Two for the price of one!

A fortnight ago we let you in on the secret of how trainers were secretly drug cheating, and gave you the tip on exactly how to catch them.

On Friday the QRIC followed our good oil to the letter, and caught Chris Munce red handed.

Don’t believe a word that Munce tells you about it being an IV injection of vitamins.

The man is a convicted criminal, race cheat and liar with a huge amount to lose.

How he ever got back in the game after time in jail for racing corruption,. when Danny Nikolic has never spent a single day jail but is denied a license, is a mystery to everyone except the regulatory authorities that granted Munce his tickets first to rude, and then to train, and the officials that copped secret cash slings to make it happen.

It should be stripped off him forever now, and the cheat who doesn’t pay his staff properly, and phoenixes companies to avoid it, should be warned off courses for life.

It wasn’t vitamins that Chris Munce was giving Lady Brahmos on Saturday, and the top ten trainer’s claim that he doesn’t understand the race day treatment rules would be laughable, if only it wasn’t both so damn stupid and so deeply devious.

It gives him away as a liar, but we already knew that.

What Munce was really giving his horse was Seramune, the bleeder shot that we told you last week is an essential part of the drug cheating regime practiced by racing crooks.

Delivered by IV drip – infusion/transfusion – 24 to 48 hours prior to race time.

Lady Brahmos was due to race at 3.37pm on Saturday afternoon.

Munce was caught giving it the IV drip at around 10am on Friday morning.

Thirty hours before the race, exactly as we told you.

Bingo!

The only problem now is that under the current drug testing regime the Seramune and its primary ingredient igG don’t swab.

They can though if you recalibrate the spectrometers to look for the substances, or send it overseas to a lab that already screens for the stuff.

We here at peterprofit.com don’t regurgitate press releases like the others in the racing press.

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Rusty the writing style might be a tad flamboyant but the insinuations are generally quite apt.
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New hair testing regime making its mark in QLD racing

As Queensland officials await results of hair testing on Gold Coast Magic Millions runners to identify any historic use of prohibited substances, integrity boss Mark Ainsworth insists the state’s new hair sampling regime is already kicking goals.

Hair testing of racing animals, which started in the Sunshine State mid last year, determines if there has been any use of prohibited substances in the lead-up time well before a race.

At the time it was announced, integrity bosses claimed the new hair sampling regime “leaves the cheaters nowhere to hide”.

While still in the very early stages and there have been no charges laid over hair sampling results, Ainsworth pointed to the benefits of the deterrent nature of hair testing.

He revealed there had been 43 positive swabs for prohibited substances in thoroughbreds in the 2019/20 financial year but that figure was just seven in the first two quarters of the 2020/21 financial year (up until December).

There was a similar dive in positive swabs over that period in the greyhound industry while harness racing positive swabs also plunged.

Ainsworth said that with the rich Queensland winter racing carnival looming, the industry was on notice about how hair testing was now edging towards the forefront of integrity efforts to stamp out wrongdoing.

Ainsworth, a former police Detective Superintendent who was the top cop in Queensland’s high-profile Baden-Clay murder investigation, is now Acting Commissioner of the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission after Ross Barnett left recently to take up a new role.

“We have got the winter carnival coming up and we have seen increases in prizemoney in thoroughbreds, the hair testing is a bit of innovation and trying something different to keep trainers honest,” Ainsworth said.

“It is another bit of ammunition for us and the animal welfare side of it is pretty important as well. Investments in the Racing Science Centre have seen enhanced testing capabilities so we can try to keep ahead of the game a bit more.

“Hair retains the traces of prohibited substances for months, acting like a reservoir for drugs which have been administered over time.”

Banned substances including anabolic agents such as anabolic androgenic steroids along with hormones and metabolic modulators will be targeted with hair testing.

Racing Science Centre director Dr Shawn Stanley says historically, anti-doping laboratories test blood, urine and saliva to detect substance abuse through pre and post-race testing, but the use of some prohibited substances in the weeks leading up to a race cannot be detected.

Ainsworth says he is awaiting results of hair sampling from gallopers who competed at the rich Gold Coast Magic Millions day in January.

“This was the first Magic Millions carnival where the Commission has carried out hair testing to identify historic use of prohibited substances,” Ainsworth said.

Ainsworth says stewards will have the ability to lay charges based on results from hair testing, stating: “It’s going to come down to the circumstances of the testing and what drug is in the system.”

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