Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Archie Do you now racing is barking up the wrong tree with thinking “animal welfare” is the key issue to sustainability? Well it isn’t, though not saying it’s not important, just not how you think. Something that markedly increases the cost to “bread and butter” breeders and owners – ie requirements to maintain all stock […]
We have been writing for a long time now about missing presumed dead Ben Yole horses. Well, I can announce now with 100 percent certainty that we have identified two horses that Yole or his owners have notified Tasracing and HRA are retired, are in fact dead. Tarleton Reilly and Heidi Go Seek are the […]
D0n’t mess with Doctor Dream He’s not one for sympathyHe will bring you to your kneesLose your troublesEase your pain This is the price you must pay Remember this story below? Re-read it if you don’t. It’s about how the QRIC kept a dog with a broken leg out in the sun writhing in pain, […]
There are some awful whispers coming out of the western districts about the predicament of the 6YO pacing mare Ellen Shannon. We are hearing that the mare went sore after her most recent 22m fourth at Bathurst six weeks ago, which followed on from her horrible 51.3 metre beating at the same track 16 days […]
Gai is correct that accidents do happen, but when footballers or racing car drivers suffer an injury in training they aren’t put down by injection with a lethal needle. And equine accidents seem to happen at a far greater rate to horses brought to Australia by Coolmore – which has been the subject of widespread […]
This is hard to believe, but rather than step back from the fire presently engulfing him, the accused race fixer and certain animal abuser Ben Yole has decided to stretch his wings further by expanding his operations into Adelaide. And the South Australian authorities have given him their blessing! Yole – who to the best […]
Tasmanian Greens leader Cassy O’Connor also displayed pictures in state parliament that she said showed Mr Yole’s horses being “strung up … and being dragged to their death” at Mr Bullock’s property. “Once Yole’s neglected horses reach their use-by date, he sends them down to Bullock to kill, butcher and feed to his dogs,” she said […]
Prize money by code The thoroughbred code had higher levels of growth in prize money at a national level, with a nine per cent annual average growth rate between 2015-16 and 2018-19. Whilst Tasmania’s thoroughbred prize money growth was the highest of the three codes, averaging seven per cent over the four year period, it […]
A psychopath on ice am I? Guess its better than being a heartless butcher. And a race fixer to boot. I’ve seen these pictures before. Haven’t you? Like I said Team, you don’t know who I am either. You did this, not me. Tasmanian trainer named in betting plunge on suspicious race, as dog food […]
The ABC expose of Ben Yole’s nefarious activities is the biggest scandal in harness racing for a decade. And it has only just begun. Yole’s animal welfare abuses are the subject of episodes in the locker that will be released over the coming days and weeks. His abuses of humans will feature too. This is […]
