Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We wrote a story earlier in the week about RocknRoll Da Gama, the Lola Weidemann trained pacer who had covered more ground than his namesake Vasco the Dutch explorer, and had raced 11 times in a month. Well now its raced twelve. Australia’s most over-worked pacer stepped out at Redcliffe today, and in a damning […]
Ben Yole has won the past five Tasmanian harness race training premierships in succession. He wins these Premierships because he turns out ten times as many runners as any other trainer in the State. Yole gets all these horses – hundreds of them – from around Australia by either buying them out of cheap claiming […]
On Monday we told you the amazing story of how the most over-worked galloper in training Masterati – who has been racing non-stop since July, and had raced 22 times in just 29 weeks – was actually given a break of more than a fortnight in between races, which must have made the poor old […]
At exactly what point does racing a galloper excessively become an animal welfare issue? Can owners and their trainer race an aged thoroughbred week in, week out in races held on professional tracks, and still be said to care for the best interests of their horse? Those are the questions that need to be answered […]
Hang on! Yesterday we wrote a story telling you how the Tasracing integrity officials had violated their own animal welfare policy by allowing a Ben Yole trained pacer named Mach Charm to race 6 times in 22 days when the maximum number of starts allowed in a month is five. What the Tasmanian Steward’s had […]
That is black and white isn’t it? Unless the Tasmanian control body determines that running six or more times in a month is beneficial to a pacer’s welfare – which appears highly unlikely to ever be the case – the maximum number of times that a horse can race in any 30 day period is […]
HRV would like to make participants aware that when engaging a rehoming person that is not affiliated with HRV’s HERO program that the outcome for the horse may not be as promised and the outcome may lack some oversight. It is important for participants to undertake their own research and due diligence prior to engaging […]
