Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
There has been some criticism of mature age apprentice Jade Doolan’s vigour, or lack thereof, on the fast blowing in the betting second favourite Bernie’s Tiger in the 2nd race at Mackay on Tuesday, but I have to say I beg to differ. Jade Doolan is just a rookie at the riding game, who up […]
Abandoned race meetings in South East Queensland could be a thing of the past as Racing Queensland looks to implement an all-weather track procedure from October. The recent construction of a Polytrack circuit at the Sunshine Coast Turf Club would allow abandoned turf meetings in SEQ to be transferred to the synthetic “after considering the […]
A greyhound training “bullring” where dogs were baited with live rabbits was so popular trainers would have to wait in line to set their dogs loose, a court has heard. Western Sydney greyhound owner Todd Fear has told an inquiry into NSW greyhound racing he went about 20 times to a property where trainer Bruce Carr […]
The stories that follow contain extremely disturbing images of deceased racing animals. They feature even more disturbing human beings. If you choose to read on, please prepare for your stomach to be churned.
This is not a scene from the apocalypse, nor is one a still shot from Mad Max. But it could be. What you are seeing is ‘Australia’s greatest harness racing trainer’ Ben Yole’s registered training establishment, and how he keeps the hundreds of discarded horses that he acquires from stables around the country on 50-50 […]
The man in the picture is Anthony Bullock, Tasmania’s leading greyhound trainer. Bullock is a close friend and business associate of Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole. He is not a licensed horse trainer. The horse that Bullock is leading, and most of the others in the pictures to follow, are broken down pacers formerly trained by Ben […]
This is what happens to the horses that are sent to Ben Yole. They break down. So he sends them to Anthony Bullocks place, where they are shot in the head. Then they are hung from trees so that the blood can drain from their lifeless bodies, and fall like red pain-filled rain upon the […]
The blood has drained from the horse’s bodies. The chainsawing had been done. Now the cook up begins. Send in the hounds.
Once they were warriors, pacers who strode the national stage. Then they were injured, and sent to Ben Yole. He drugged them to mask the pain, and on they raced. Then one day the drugs didn’t work anymore, and they broke down in pain. This is where they ended up. As offal. It’s awful. The […]
It appears that racing is returning to Albion Park this Friday afternoon after all, despite our skepticism about it happening. After a month of putting up with Redcliffe and Marburg it will be a blessed relief. That being said we will still believe it when we see it. What a successful return to the Creek […]
