Four Corners covered this they had a long shot of him in the first turn and the jockey was clearly pulling his head back to slow him down he was ready to take off, and it took six wranglers with their arms locked together under him to carry him out of the winners circle.
One of the most controversial wins in any feature race in Australia _ Not known to many is that horse survived and raced on . In the 1987 two-mile Perth Cup, Connell's horse Rocket Racer ridden by leading Western Australian jockey J. J. Miller won the race by nine lengths and couldn't be pulled up, doing nearly another lap of the course. Connell had backed the horse initially at long odds down to a 2/1 favourite and was believed to have collected $500,000 from bookmakers as well as the $210,000 prizemoney for the win. After the race he shouted drinks for the members' bar for several hours. The horse's performance and subsequent collapse and death of unknown causes a few weeks later was never fully investigated or explained, although it is generally assumed that it had been injected with etorphine ("elephant juice").Rocket Racer was trained by Buster O'Malley, but another Connell-owned horse trained by George Way, had tested positive to etorphine a few weeks earlier which had led to a long disqualification for Way.
Very sad look for horse racing, Laurie 'the Crook' Connell had the stewards on the payroll, the poor horse was believed to be given a large dose of "elephant juice", lucky it didn't drop dead after this race.
Poor horse. I don't know how anyone could sleep at night drugging a horse up to its eyeballs like that. And I don't know how you could party away when your horse is staggering about immediately after the race looking like it's about to die.
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Souped up to the eye-balls
Four Corners covered this they had a long shot of him in the first turn and the jockey was clearly pulling his head back to slow him down he was ready to take off, and it took six wranglers with their arms locked together under him to carry him out of the winners circle.
One of the most controversial wins in any feature race in Australia _ Not known to many is that horse survived and raced on .
In the 1987 two-mile Perth Cup, Connell's horse Rocket Racer ridden by leading Western Australian jockey J. J. Miller won the race by nine lengths and couldn't be pulled up, doing nearly another lap of the course. Connell had backed the horse initially at long odds down to a 2/1 favourite and was believed to have collected $500,000 from bookmakers as well as the $210,000 prizemoney for the win. After the race he shouted drinks for the members' bar for several hours.
The horse's performance and subsequent collapse and death of unknown causes a few weeks later was never fully investigated or explained, although it is generally assumed that it had been injected with etorphine ("elephant juice").Rocket Racer was trained by Buster O'Malley, but another Connell-owned horse trained by George Way, had tested positive to etorphine a few weeks earlier which had led to a long disqualification for Way.
Raced 23 days after the Perth Cup in the Queens Cup over 2400m where he was a 5/2 unplaced favourite. That was his last race start before dying.
Very sad look for horse racing, Laurie 'the Crook' Connell had the stewards on the payroll, the poor horse was believed to be given a large dose of "elephant juice", lucky it didn't drop dead after this race.
Poor horse. I don't know how anyone could sleep at night drugging a horse up to its eyeballs like that. And I don't know how you could party away when your horse is staggering about immediately after the race looking like it's about to die.
Squeeze the juice...