Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The man in the picture is Anthony Bullock, Tasmania’s leading greyhound trainer. Bullock is a close friend and business associate of Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole. He is not a licensed horse trainer. The horse that Bullock is leading, and most of the others in the pictures to follow, are broken down pacers formerly trained by Ben […]
This is what happens to the horses that are sent to Ben Yole. They break down. So he sends them to Anthony Bullocks place, where they are shot in the head. Then they are hung from trees so that the blood can drain from their lifeless bodies, and fall like red pain-filled rain upon the […]
The blood has drained from the horse’s bodies. The chainsawing had been done. Now the cook up begins. Send in the hounds.
Once they were warriors, pacers who strode the national stage. Then they were injured, and sent to Ben Yole. He drugged them to mask the pain, and on they raced. Then one day the drugs didn’t work anymore, and they broke down in pain. This is where they ended up. As offal. It’s awful. The […]
There may be some doubt about whether Mark Purdon hocked True Fantasy in the Great Northern Oaks in New Zealand on Friday night (see story below), but there is no doubt at all that leading NSW driver Cameron Hart booted I Cast No Shadow in the back leg at Menangle on Saturday. It is blindingly […]
Tarleton Riley is an 10-year-old pacer who has been racing since the year 2014 and has had 225 starts. Riley raced in the last at Hobart last night at 11.00pm. He sat three-wide without cover for the last lap and finished a tired sixth. Today – less than 24 hours later – the poor old […]
This is what’s wrong with harness racing. We glorify people who should be thrown head first out of the sport. Yesterday we told you about Jack ‘Breaker’ Laugher copping his umpteenth suspension for whip rule breach offences, which are acts of abject animal cruelty under another name. Breaker’s latest 5 week suspension was deferred to […]
Decron Horse Care is a highly reputable company run by Copy That’s owner Merv Butterworth, a good and honourable man and a great supporter of harness racing. What a great shame it is that Merv’s generous sponsorship of the Noel Smith Memorial Invitation Drivers Championship was blighted by the series being won by Jack ‘Breaker’ […]
Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole from Tasmania is officially Australia’s greatest harness racing trainer. He is also one of the nation’s most prolific individual horse killers, which is why we call him Chainsaw – that and the fact that he and his mate the greyhound trainer Anthony Bullock chop the trotters they kill into pieces and feed […]
Crossing the reins (also known as bridging the reins) – This means putting one rein over the top of the other, to form a small hoop about 10cms (4in) long, which you hold between your hands and which fits over the horse’s neck. It is often used by harness drivers to drive their horse with […]
