The Definitive Answer To Becks Nairn and Other Conspiracists

[Steven]

On 25/08/2025 at 4:23 PM, hesi said:

0.17 on the vid, quoting Garner's narrative.  "Becks Nairn says the time has come to ban horse racing for good"

Becks Nairn has been able to establish herself as a reformist voice, however, her credibility falls apart on examination. Her assertions, especially as to Arcano, the grey standardbred, are laced with ex post facto dramatics and lack forensic support.

Had Arcano incurred the internal trauma she claims now, euthanasia would have been required at Stable to Stirrup. It wasn’t.

She even trained him herself after sale to the new owner but to no avail without her recognising the symptoms that she would later practice as pathology. The horse later performed successfully in Marlborough. His death conditions are vague.

What we know is that Nairn might have approved the euthanasia herself- not a trained veterinary body. She then dissected him, capitalised the process and directly profited by his remains. I have demanded time-stamped vet slips, pathology results, and peer review results, three times, publicly. She has produced nothing.

Where is the letter of the CEO of Harness Racing?

Where is the amended autopsy report?

I do not think it comes with blood pathology or certifiable supervision. Rather she makes money behind a paywall, selling butchered narratives to an audience fooled by style over content. She is rhetorically savvy. Her 50,000 followers gave her the assumption of sweeping indictments, outlawing racing, and weaponising her charisma.

Yet in the absence of forensic evidence, her platform is a study of how to manipulate the narrative. Whenever confronted by experts, she silences critics by blocking out her platforms and mobilising her followers to suppress critics. I’ve documented this pattern. It is not reform—it is control.

Implication is not evidence that I tolerate. I want timestamps, receipts, pathology which is checked by qualified experts, not narrative, not drama, no retroactive assertions. Until she can do so, her accusations stand on air, and her platform is an excellent cautionary library of the sophism of evasion. 

[Chief Stipe]

A brilliant post that has put far more eloquently what I and others have been saying.  Well said @Steven.

Needed a topic of its own!

[hesi]

If you dig deeper with Becks Nairn on her FB page, she has as friends, the same old names of racing malcontents and conspiracy theorists that regularly post on that FB Thoroughbred site

[the galah]

On 28/08/2025 at 8:11 PM, Steven said:

Becks Nairn has been able to establish herself as a reformist voice, however, her credibility falls apart on examination. Her assertions, especially as to Arcano, the grey standardbred, are laced with ex post facto dramatics and lack forensic support.

Had Arcano incurred the internal trauma she claims now, euthanasia would have been required at Stable to Stirrup. It wasn’t.

She even trained him herself after sale to the new owner but to no avail without her recognising the symptoms that she would later practice as pathology. The horse later performed successfully in Marlborough. His death conditions are vague.

What we know is that Nairn might have approved the euthanasia herself- not a trained veterinary body. She then dissected him, capitalised the process and directly profited by his remains. I have demanded time-stamped vet slips, pathology results, and peer review results, three times, publicly. She has produced nothing.

Where is the letter of the CEO of Harness Racing?

Where is the amended autopsy report?

I do not think it comes with blood pathology or certifiable supervision. Rather she makes money behind a paywall, selling butchered narratives to an audience fooled by style over content. She is rhetorically savvy. Her 50,000 followers gave her the assumption of sweeping indictments, outlawing racing, and weaponising her charisma.

Yet in the absence of forensic evidence, her platform is a study of how to manipulate the narrative. Whenever confronted by experts, she silences critics by blocking out her platforms and mobilising her followers to suppress critics. I’ve documented this pattern. It is not reform—it is control.

Implication is not evidence that I tolerate. I want timestamps, receipts, pathology which is checked by qualified experts, not narrative, not drama, no retroactive assertions. Until she can do so, her accusations stand on air, and her platform is an excellent cautionary library of the sophism of evasion. 

I get what your saying,

no one can argue her findings about arcano lack specific professional forensic support. 

that would have proved costly had she gone ahead and paid for that herself.Instead we are left to take on face value what she says she was told by a couple of vets and that the pictures she shows are from the right horse.  But i don't think its reasonable to infer, what she said was done with an intent to mislead. 

iAnyone who has worked in a freezing works knows lungs come in all degrees of health and who really knows when and what point stress or trauma happened in an animals life. All they can tell without knowing the animals history is it did happen at some stage. So i agree she made assumptions without possibly knowing the full life hisrotory of the horse.

but to be fair,assuming she has accurately identified there was damage. But she is relying not only on that but other factors.e.g.

1) hrnz came out with statements cleary concerned at what their intelligence had told them was the use of xenon.Just reaad their press satements at the time

2)m kerr was one of the trainers widely rumoured to be involved in its use. i thought nearly everyone knew that.

3) the fact that m kerr was able to achieve a total form reversal with arcano ,from consistently running down the track at manawatu and nelson, to winning impressively at addington,after having him for just 5 weeks. Then the following week dropping out a well beaten last.

4)the fact arcano was now dead which she says was a result of the horse getting sick and not respending to treatments.-when did that happen.Hard to tell because he just shows up as being deregistered on the hrnz website.  Obviously it happened some tiime in the last 5 years. 

5)with your claim that

On 28/08/2025 at 8:11 PM, Steven said:

 

Had Arcano incurred the internal trauma she claims now, euthanasia would have been required at Stable to Stirrup. It wasn’t.

 

aren't you just doing what you are criticisng her for doing. i.e. making assumptions. 

Interestly you seem to have tried to link her to being instrumental in arcano being put down. So whats the point of saying that. do you think people are going to think someone who dedicates there time to rehoming horses is somehow going to have a change that mindset.

anyway,i think you overestimate what you say is her skill to be rhetorically savvy and underestimate her audience which you say is easily fooled.  

as i said on the other thread on this forum,i think this topic is a bit of a no brainer. Its not about her,its about what shs saying and like it or not,the reason she has 50,000 followers( i have no idea whether thats a lot or not for facebook) but it tends to suggest that the industry should be working to get her on board instread of fighting her message.think 

Edited 6 hours ago by the galah

[Chief Stipe]

21 minutes ago, the galah said:

as i said on the other thread on this forum,i think this topic is a bit of a no brainer. Its not about her,its about what shs saying and like it or not,the reason she has 50,000 followers( i have no idea whether thats a lot or not for facebook) but it tends to suggest that the industry should be working to get her on board instread of fighting her message.think 

Why would the industry even consider working with someone as duplitious as her?  

That aside what are HRNZ not doing that they should be?  

@Steven has written a very well reasoned and logical post that shows there is nothing to be gained by engaging with Nairn.  If Nairn was credible then she would have answered his questions and in the first place made sure that there was no uncertainty.  Surely if she was genuine then cost wouldn't have been an issue as she earns money from her FB page and allegedly has 50,000 followers who, if they are as concerned as you infer, would surely have dipped into their pockets to assist.

[Chief Stipe]

13 minutes ago, the galah said:

hrnz came out with statements cleary concerned at what their intelligence had told them was the use of xenon.Just reaad their press satements at the time

I have but they seem to contradict what you are saying.  Essentially HRNZ said no comment other than they were able to test for Xenon use.  

[the galah]

21 minutes ago, Chief Stipe said:

Why would the industry even consider working with someone as duplitious as her?  

well,whether you like it or not, its the best starting point.

you bring people like that on board for several reasons.

i do think shes genuine and is talking about issues that need constant regular tweeks as to what is best policy.

you  give her the opportunity to raise all grievances with you  first. Knowing whats coming is better than not knowing. And you give her the opportunity for her to give her solutions,no harm done listening..

it would be a double edged sword for her ,if she was asked by the industry to work with them.

so i think there is definite value in trying to get her on board,even if down the track you decided to use the knowledge of how she thinks and acts, to your advantage if matters get a public airing.As these type of things periodically do.

theres a reason why the industry is so sensitive to the issues shes raised.

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[Chief Stipe]

58 minutes ago, the galah said:

well,whether you like it or not, its the best starting point.

you bring people like that on board for several reasons.

You can't bring "people like that on board" they are more intransigent than you are on most things and as much as @Brodie is on wagering with TABNZ.

1 hour ago, the galah said:

you  give her the opportunity to raise all grievances with you  first. Knowing whats coming is better than not knowing. And you give her the opportunity for her to give her solutions,no harm done listening..

Seriously @the galah what would she know before any of the professionals?  I heard the BS conspiracies for the last 50 years in racing very very few of them have any veracity.  Leave it to the professionals.

[Chief Stipe]

1 hour ago, the galah said:

theres a reason why the industry is so sensitive to the issues shes raised.

Which is?  I know what your answer is that "there is dirty laundry lying hidden".  But no evidence.

People are sensitive because it is the likes of Nairn and those who seek to empower her (you?) that make life unenjoyable for hard working participants the majority of whom (99.5%) just want to get on and make racing work.  

[hesi]

1 hour ago, Chief Stipe said:

Which is?  I know what your answer is that "there is dirty laundry lying hidden".  But no evidence.

People are sensitive because it is the likes of Nairn and those who seek to empower her (you?) that make life unenjoyable for hard working participants the majority of whom (99.5%) just want to get on and make racing work.  

The trouble is with social media, that 0.5% make so much noise, one could be forgiven for thinking the 0.5% is in the ascendancy, when they are only 0.5% and the other 99.5% just want to get on and make the best of the new opportunities that have come along.

Good post, you are learning lol

 

[the galah]

1 hour ago, Chief Stipe said:

Which is?  I know what your answer is that "there is dirty laundry lying hidden".  But no evidence.

People are sensitive because it is the likes of Nairn and those who seek to empower her (you?) that make life unenjoyable for hard working participants the majority of whom (99.5%) just want to get on and make racing work.  

she or i make life unenjoyable for hard working participants.

i'll give you points for consistency,for you, its always the fault of people like us.

1 hour ago, Chief Stipe said:

You can't bring "people like that on board" they are more intransigent than you are on most things and as much as @Brodie is on wagering with TABNZ.

Seriously @the galah what would she know before any of the professionals?  I heard the BS conspiracies for the last 50 years in racing very very few of them have any veracity.  Leave it to the professionals.

they won't bring her on board,because racing hierachy don't think like that.

And its because the hierachy  don't think like that,that shes not on bioard and now has an outside  platform with so many followers. 

as to what does she know. Well i thought most of what she has talked about, is rehoming racehorses and all the factors relating to that.Well this woman has credibilty because shes walked the walk,so to speak.

there is something about her which may be a bit too judgmental even for my liking,but hey i think her hearts in the right place.that counts.

Edited 3 hours ago by the galah