The good gets a good rodgering from the NHA

......has one ever thought what it would be like to be a less than mediocre thoroughbred race horse......you go through this routine of exercising day in and day out.....starved of the times you could wander in a horse camp and nibble at green grass dandylions and what ever else you could continuously graze on all day......now you on a diet and get a few scoops of dry un chewable palate less served at the most inconvenient hours.....one day you wake up not feeling so good.....your nose is full of snot and your throat hurts as does the rest of your body.....the man with the smelly cigar decides to put you on light work and you just trot at the track.....then a even more smelly man without a cigar comes and puts a hose up your nose then funnels some ghastly shit down your throat....the next day you don't go to work but the paddock and fresh morning rain.....you feel much better.... the snot and throat are a distant memory.....you can breathe again.....air smells great.....even that dry food tastes much better.....and back at work you feel brand new.....now when you run you feel light headed as the endorphins flood your brain you want more.....then after a trip in a smelly trailer crowded with smelly horses and even more smelly humans.....you arrive at a place with green grass.....it reminds you of your youth and better times.....your adrenalin starts pumping and when the big machine opens with a sea of green in front of you the endorphins take over....you run your little legs off....and sober up when the cold water hose splashes you back into your humdrum life again..... :blink:

.......so the Good's angle is not one of medication but contamination......some fool spilled his coffee or Red Bull over the sample bottles and thus low levels of caffeine are present..... :ohmy:

Great post Muhtiman!!

Yes reminded me of Lucky Jim

Hope you get justice Good. You are one of the very rare trainers who cares about punters.

Agree!!!

I recently was shown from the outside the testing area in Cape Town and was amazed
to see 3 horses in the area at the same time
Surely this could lead to errors and a possible mixup
After all we had a trainer send the incorrect horse which actually raced and won
And where? in Cape Town!!