Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Emilio Rosati is probably the third richest owner in harness racing, behind Clive Palmer and Kevin Seymour A.M. If he is not, then the man who names all his horses Stride is certainly in the top five. Which begs the question. Why does a horse owner that has personal wealth in the tens and probably […]
Just curious Mr Ben Yole. That’s all.
A ten-year old pacer named Arrowkeefe won a race at Globe Derby yesterday, less than 18 hours after it had run 2nd in one at Port Pirie the night before. WTF? In a State that loudly proclaims that – and I quote – The horse is at the heart of everything we do in South […]
Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole didn’t have a runner in the first race at Hobart last night, but he turned out 39 of the 50 starters in the other 5 races (78%). In race three Chainsaw trained every one of the nine starters. He trained 5 of the runners in race six, 10 of the 12 in […]
After racing for 20 consecutive months, Australia’s most over-raced pacer Bien Hoa was finally given a month off in March. It was only the 2nd break of four weeks or more that the 13-year-old workhorse has had in the past 4 years. Given that he Bien Hoa raced 9 times in just 5 weeks between […]
Can you imagine getting a gun. loading it up, and then using it to shoot a poor innocent horse in the head? Not a horse who is sick or anything, just one that is no use to you anymore and you don’t want to feed Personally I can’t. Can you imagine grabbing the chainsaw, lubing […]
Okay, here it is. I am a racing fan. My wife and kids owns gallopers, pacers and dogs. We are not babes in the woods, and we understand the go. But shooting horses in the head with a .22 and then cutting them up with a chainsaw is too far beyond the pale for us […]
Ben Yole trained 25 of the 58 starters in seven races at Devonport tonight. In one race he trained 8 of the 10, in another he had 3 of the 6, in yet others Yole trained 3 of the 7 and 4 of the 10. Know how many winners he got? Zero. He is a […]
Regular readers of this site well know the story of the warhorse Masterati, the most over-raced galloper in Australia. (Those who don’t can click here to catch up on our stories about the horse who’s been flogged to death). Last Saturday we tipped you into Masterati at his NT debut over 1100 metres in Alice […]
HRA maintains a robust traceability database which was referenced in a submission from the Australian Veterinary Association Ltd to the Martin Inquiry which quotes, “EVA does concede that Harness Racing Australia has taken serious action on this issue in the last 18 months by making owners update activity status of Standardbred racehorses in ‘real time.’” […]
