Worksafe Tasmania is investigating trainer Ben Yole over worker’s compensation
By Nick Clark Worksafe Tasmania is investigating harness racing trainer Ben Yole Racing Pty Ltd in relation to matters under the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 and the Work Health and Safety Act 2012. The Department of Justice also confirmed that there is an active prosecution of Benjamin J Yole before the courts in relation to an […]
All You Can See are Hooks – The Smell Coming Up From the Creek is the Stench of Rotten Fish
Take a look at this drive will you? It’s race 10 at Albion Park on Friday night and we are watching Boston Bronski, the horse in the Donny Smith colors of lime green and black driven by Adam Richardson. Watch what Richardson does, and remember that Albion Park has a sprint lane. See that? Adam […]
Someone Buy HRNSW a Calendar for Christmas, and an Abacus and a Pair of Specs?
Jack Callaghan slaughtered one at Newcastle in March, and was suspended for 6 weeks for an unacceptable drive. Happy Jack appealed the Stewards decision to the NSW Harness Racing Appeals Panel and won. His suspension was overturned. The Panel’s decision was handed down on 17 May, which was the same day that the matter was […]
Elvis Gets Killed by a Cowboy – And the Fave Does Too
Josh Gallagher is a talented reinsman, there is no doubt about that, but more often than you should with an Inter Dominion winner you really do have to sometimes question have question his drives. Last night in the first at Penrith was one of those occasions. Gallagher was on the 3rd favorite Bara Riley, drawn […]
Why John McCarthy Started Serving His DQ and How Peter Trevor-Jones Got Tossed – You Can Find the Decisions Here
We’ve been contacted by a number of readers who are eager to learn why John McCarthy has finally started serving his disqualification for a cobalt positive almost six years after his horse threw it. Apparently they can’t find any mention of the reason the sin binning has now taken effect on the HRNSW website. We […]
Court Hears That Ben Yole Ordered Staff to Inject Horses Twice on Race Day and Apply Paste Over the Tongue – This Grub Must Be Banned For Life
The defense lawyer for Ben Yole’s float driver in the terrible accident last year that left 2 young stable workers with permanent injuries has told the court that his client and the 4 other Yole employees in the car towing the float had worked from 7.30am on the day before the crash through to 1.45am […]
The QLD Stewards Inconsistency in Sentencing is Just Plain Wrong
On a day of penalties for careless riding at the Sunshine Coast yesterday, Michael Rodd received two suspensions, one of them 8 days for causing interference in race 2, and the other 12 days for causing interference in race 8. These were separate and distinct cases of careless riding, and the penalties were stand alone. […]
An Absurd Decision
It is a strange protest decision this one. Kaleb Williams, the driver of the horse in the yellow and brown, definitely shifts inside two marker pegs in the home straight and runs over a third. That much is confirmed by the driver being fined $100 for breaching the rule. 163. (1) A driver shall not […]
If Brains Were Dollars, This Trackwork Rider Would Be Flat Broke
If you are going to try and pull a swiftie on the Stewards by slipping them a doctored medical report, it would be sensible to check that the doctor who you are pretending wrote the report is still in business first. Trackwork rider Kirsty Mason isn’t semsible. She submitted a Health Assessment Results Form dated […]