Murrihy Report in Full
The full final report of Ray Murrihy can be found at the link below. Click to access Final%20Report%20-%20Murrihy.pdf
Murrihy Report – Part 2 – Conditions at Yole’s Training Property are Shithouse
In regard to complaints about sub-standard conditions at Yole’s training property at Sidmouth, Ray Murrihy found that: There are too many horses on the property for its size and conditions (120-160 horses are there at any time). Drainage is deficient, with substantial areas being waterlogged and muddy in winter, and subject to a high level […]
Murrihy Report – Part 3 – Tasmanian Harness Racing Needs a Complete Overhaul
Ray Murrihy has found that the Tasmanian racing requires a major overhaul to improve competition on the racetrack, because fierce competition in races is the industry’s best safeguard against team driving and race fixing. In other words, he is saying everyone except the Tasmanian authorities know, which is that racing dominated by a single stable […]
Murrihy Report – Part 4 – Ray Savages the National Ratings System, and Says It’s Set Up to Be Rorted
The final Term of Reference (ToR 7) provides opportunity to advise on other matters relevant to horse welfare, team driving and race fixing. On the basis of relevancy, this review believes that fierce competition on the racetrack is the industry’s best safeguard against team driving and race fixing. Therefore this review would be remiss not […]
Murrihy Report – Part 6 – New Rules Need to Introduced to Stop Ben Yole Transporting All His Horses to the Races at Once
Race day practices It has been submitted that Yole stable horses, on race days, can be required to stand on horse floats and/or be tied up for an extended period of time of up to 16 hours. For example, for a Hobart race meeting, it has been submitted that horses are often loaded at around […]
Belle From Burnie on Heat Policies
Start times as “welfare” under heat policies are all “show” anyway. Unless the venue has all its horses stabled on course then instead of spending a period of minutes on track in the hottest part of the day the horses are then spending much longer, in some cases hours, in the hottest part of the […]
This is Taking Loving Your Animals a Wee Bit Too Far
A young married couple are accused of using animals on their south coast property for sexual pleasure and filming the disturbing intimate interactions. Police will allege they were confronted with images of bestiality involving a 17-year-old mare called Gemma and a 14-month old border collie called Ekko. Joel Kerim first came to the attention of […]
Murrihy Report Yet to be Released
The Anthony Bullock Appeal Decision
The full decision of the Tasmanian Racing Appeals Board to uphold the appeal of Anthony Bullock against his conviction for live baiting can be found at the link below. Click to access Appeal%20No.%2010%20of%202023-24%20-%20Bullock,%20Anthony%20-%20Reasons%20for%20Decision.pdf In summary, our observations are that: the Stewards stuffed up so did the pathologist who examined the pademelon tail found on the […]
The ABC Report on Anthony Bullock’s Appeal Win
In short: Tasmania’s top greyhound trainer Anthony Bullock has had a lifetime ban quashed after he was found guilty of being found in possession of an animal tail which could be used as a lure, in contravention of racing rules. An appeal board found it unproven the trainer knew the tail of a native marsupial was […]