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A greyhound training “bullring” where dogs were baited with live rabbits was so popular trainers would have to wait in line to set their dogs loose, a court has heard. Western Sydney greyhound owner Todd Fear has told an inquiry into NSW greyhound racing he went about 20 times to a property where trainer Bruce Carr […]
The stories that follow contain extremely disturbing images of deceased racing animals. They feature even more disturbing human beings. If you choose to read on, please prepare for your stomach to be churned.
This is not a scene from the apocalypse, nor is one a still shot from Mad Max. But it could be. What you are seeing is ‘Australia’s greatest harness racing trainer’ Ben Yole’s registered training establishment, and how he keeps the hundreds of discarded horses that he acquires from stables around the country on 50-50 […]
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 […]
In a statement released by Racing Victoria on Friday, the industry says it has asked the Racing Integrity Commissioner to: • Create the chance for historic victims of physical or sexual abuse, assault or harassment, to report concerns and complaints to someone independent of the racing industry and to access support services as required; • […]
We have been writing about Gerald Ryan and his sick abuse of young racing participants for a long time. Not once have we taken a backward step, and nor should we. Call it for what it is has been our attitude. Gerald Ryan is a paedophile. We know this because we are friends with a […]
Queensland horse trainer David Reynolds, who is facing a number of criminal charges for serious offences, has had his appeal against the suspension of his license dismissed on internal review by the QRIC. It is the right decision. What is of huge concern is that Reynolds has reportedly been telling people that it his intention […]
