Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
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 […]
Tasmanian harness racing is presently standing under the glare of the spotlight as the public face of state sanctioned gratuitous animal cruelty and wanton equine abuse, and it deserves to be too. Soon the horrors being inflicted on horses by Ben Yole that have made him a millionaire will be exposed on national television, and […]
It is proposed that the Code of Practice will include a set of minimum standards for the care of both thoroughbred and harness racehorses. Work has commenced on the development of the draft code, which will be linked to the Rules of Racing and will therefore become enforceable. Industry will be consulted on the draft. […]
