Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Stewards concluded an inquiry into an incident at the Brighton Training Complex on the 30th of September 2022. Trainer Sarah Cotton was found guilty to a charge under the provisions of AR228 (b) – conduct detrimental to the interests of racing – improper conduct. Particulars of the charge were that at the Brighton Training Complex […]
If Ben Hope was a horse and they’d put him for sale at Canterbury Agricultural Park as a yearling he would have been the top price lot. Any buyer would want this well conformed colt by the multiple group 1 winning champion sire Greg Hope out of the multiple group 1 winning dam Nina Hope, […]
Our story yesterday about the business interests of Ben Yole’s major owner Steve Wyles sparked the attention of a reader, who wrote in to tell us about the joint just up the road from Wyle’s old company Freight Partners in Carrum Downs that boils down dead horses and recycles them into oil. I didn’t quite […]
Have you read Adman Hamilton’s latest polemic on the state of harness racing, and how to fix it? Adman says that we need to modernize the sport by turning it in to Trot Rod city. Trot races take too long he reckons. Back in the day a study showed that 30% of air time on […]
One thing I don’t do is lie. The jury is out on that one. I did not know that stock whips were banned. Oh yeah. Why did you think no-one else uses them? Where I come from (Ilfracombe, 1100km west of Brisbane), stock whips are used as a guiding tool, like a jockey would use, […]
The Tasmanian government has announced an independent investigation after an ABC report on allegations of team driving and race fixing by the state’s most prominent harness racing stable. On Sunday, an ABC investigation aired allegations of unusual races and betting patterns in races dominated by horses from trainer Ben Yole’s stable, as well as concerns about […]
Summit Bloodstock is Ben Yole’s 2nd biggest owner and client. A little known company named SOLOTREK is the biggest. SOLOTREK is owned and run by a man named Stephen Alan Wyles, known as Steve Wyles. Wyles is a former Victorian police officer who worked in the crime squad. He left the force in 1990, and […]
The inside mail from the Deagon bunker is that Jason Scott is about to be appointed to the position as CEO of Racing QLD. It amazes those of us who knew him as Les Scott back in the days when he was a commission agent at Harold Park for the controversial racing identity and professional […]
Keith from QLD chimes back in with some observations about Ben Yole and the trot world at large. It’s always great to have another perspective, from someone who’s been around the game for a long time, and knows a few things about the trots. My intention was to keep out of writing about this, and […]
If you haven’t seen the ABC’s brilliant multi-media presentation that was published this morning you should, because it’s brilliant. But it’s only the first tremor of the earthquake that’s coming. Next is a story on the ABC News tonight. Don’t miss it. The real deal though is going to be the series of in-depth stories […]
