A harness racing trainer injected a horse with vodka and then tubed it on the morning of the biggest trotting day of the year as he felt “behind the eight
Like clockwork, Bernie Forde has attended the Roxburgh trots all but once since the event's inception 71 years ago.
The omission happened in 1968, when he
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Jesse Alford injected horses he trained with formalin, a banned substance.
An animal rights group has called for a disgraced harness racing trainer caught injecting two horses with a prohibited substance to face criminal charges. Jesse Alford appeared at a penalty hearing before the Judicial Control Authority at Addington Raceway on Wednesday after pleading guilty to two charges of administering a prohibited substance on race day and one of attempting to administer a prohibited substance. At the hearing it was revealed that Racing Integrity Unit (RIU) investigators planted a hidden camera near the Woodend Beach stables the 30-year-old shared after receiving a tip he was doping horses.