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On Monday we told you the amazing story of how the most over-worked galloper in training Masterati – who has been racing non-stop since July, and had raced 22 times in just 29 weeks – was actually given a break of more than a fortnight in between races, which must have made the poor old […]
We really are blessed in Australia at the moment to have such a wonderful array of young reinspeople coming through the driving ranks. This current generation of kids truly are something special, in a way that we haven’t seen for a long time. In NSW four of the top ten drivers – Jack Callaghan, Cameron […]
https://t.co/uLJFiW45ly — ajbutterflyracing (@ajbutterflyrac1) March 8, 2021 Race 4 at the Hobart trots yesterday was a most curious affair. Ben Yole trained 8 of the 12 starters. Ray Pullen prepared 2 horses. Steven Lockhart and Todd Rattray turned out 1 each. Now most folk, including me, have been saying for a long time that […]
We told you recently the tale of Australia’s iron horse Masterati, a former Sydney and Brisbane restricted grade galloper that had been sent to South Australia, where it had been raced by its new trainer Grant Young an incredible 22 times in just 29 weeks. In the story we decried the over-racing of the poor […]
What you see here is the most blatant piece of cheating you could ever see on a racetrack. It is race 1 at Burnie last night. Ben Yole trains 10 of the 12 starters. The 1 horse Keep Playing is the $2.20 favourite. Mark Yole, the trainer’s brother, is its driver. No 2 My Ultimate […]
This is Ima Birubi Boy. He’s no champion, but he’s not a walker either. In January last year Ima Birubi Boy was sent south to Ben Yole in Tasmania to train on a lease deal as a 1.55.4 winner at The Creek just 3 months before. He had 18 starts for Yole and managed just […]
Ben Yole is a terrible trainer. The Tasmanian based harness racer wins premierships by his sheer weight of numbers, but Yole can’t actually train to save his life. You only need look at Sunday’s upcoming meeting at Hobart to see what I mean. Yole doesn’t have a single runner in the 2-year-old events; he has […]
Something is wrong with harness racing in Queensland right now, wretchedly wrong indeed. You can see it just by looking at Grant Dixon’s results this year. The man we call Moses has won the past 6 metropolitan trainers premierships in a row. This year Moses has trained just 4 metro winners from 84 starters, at […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC16022114.mp4 I get really sick of trainers and training teams that I believe are cheating both us punters and their professional rivals by breaking the rules of racing. Why can’t these people just be honest? If they are going to do something naughty to a horse, what’s the problem with telling us all? Obviously the […]
At exactly what point does racing a galloper excessively become an animal welfare issue? Can owners and their trainer race an aged thoroughbred week in, week out in races held on professional tracks, and still be said to care for the best interests of their horse? Those are the questions that need to be answered […]