EXCLUSIVE – The Horror, The Horror – Part 4 – The Chainsaws Fall Silent – Send in the Hounds
The blood has drained from the horse’s bodies. The chainsawing had been done. Now the cook up begins. Send in the hounds.
EXCLUSIVE – The Horror, The Horror – Part 5 – The Offal, The Awful, The End
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 […]
Enough is Enough – The Harness Racing Authorities Need to to Kick the Hockers to Touch
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 […]
I Wonder if Chainsaw Made Him Walk?
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 […]
Breaker Laugher the Horse Basher Gets the Star Treatment
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 […]
Breaker Laugher Just Can’t Stop Bashing Horses – It’s Time He Was Thrown Out of the Game
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’ […]
Australia’s Greatest Trainer – And Putin the Peace Loving Hippy
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 […]
I Confess! I Confess! – Gaita Puts Her Hand Up to Cheating
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 […]
If Jack Laugher Was Merely Kicking Out the Plugs, Then You Wouldn’t Want Him Playing at Full Forward
Jack Laugher is on Ozzie Playboy,. the horse in the white and blue in the middle in the one-one. What the hell is he doing with that leg? If he is trying to kick out the plugs, then he’s a real bad shot. You wouldn’t want your team playing him at full forward. Nah, I […]
A Dead Horse That Shouldn’t Have Been
Toowoomba trainer Matt Boland hasn’t been seen at the track since January. He was seen at the QRIC offices a fortnight ago copping a $2000 fine for a positive swab to steroids (wtf?), but he seems to have no horses and to have left the game. If what we have been told about the fate […]