Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
This race meeting was selected at random. The average life span of a standardbred horse is 25 years. All of these horses should be alive and well. The sport’s peak body Harness Racing Australia is responsible for the registration of deaths. Not a single question has been asked. There is a reason for that. The […]
How many of the animal activists who hate greyhound racing and want to shut it down actually keep a retired dog as a pet do you reckon? 2/3rds of 1/5th of SFA is my guess. Not knowing and loving the breed is no impediment to the vegan’s crusade though, it continues on apace. It’s not […]
The Tasmanian Office of Racing Integrity (ORI) is a joke, and a real bad one too. It allows stable hands to smash horses with pieces of poly pipe as their trainer watches on, to force the bastards to get in the pool and swim, and calls it contact to the rump of a horse with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
