Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
One of Tasmania’s largest harness racing operations has been charged with breaching its duty of care following a 2023 car crash, in which several people were seriously injured. Five young people, who worked for Ben Yole Racing Pty Ltd, were driving back to Mr Yole’s stables in Sidmouth in January 2023 when their Ford Ranger, […]
Just as we foreshadowed in our story yesterday, TasRacing has refused all nominations made by trainer Wayne Yole for this weekend’s race meetings. As a result Team Yole has no runners whatsoever on Saturday nights Launceston card. The new Racing Integrity Commissioner Sean Carroll is talking tough in the media about restoring public confidence in […]
Recent law changes that came into effect on 1 February 2025 have seen Tasracing take over responsibility from the now abolished – and largely ineffective – Office of Racing Integrity (ORI) for all three codes of racing, including pre-race day and race day management, stewards, and animal welfare. It hasn’t taken long for Tasracing to stamp […]
… don’t take 24 to 48 hours to work otherwise they wouldn’t be a very good diagnostic tool if your vet has to come back two days later to continue the lameness exam. And they have usually worn off in a period of hours not days. So what exactly was Yole injecting? And to deaden […]
Wayne Yole, Ben’s dad and his last friend standing at the trots Ben Yole tendered just a single reference to the Independent Stewards Panel in his support. Guess who it was from? Not his high profile owners Aaron Bain and Summit Bloodstock. Not from from former Victorian Crime Squad detective Stephen Wyles, a major owner […]
Put simply they are joint blockers. There are three main reasons to perform intra-articular joint injections: To block or anesthetize the joint in order to determine if a specific joint is the cause of your horse’s lameness To sample fluid (or synovial fluid) in the joint and determine whether there is infection present To introduce medications, such as […]
So it comes to this. For all of Ben Yole’s sins, the one that brings him down for a couple of years and a bit is tying horses up in a wash bay and scaring the shit living out of them, on the theory that it will work like a jigger and inspire a fright […]
Charge 1: The Independent Stewards Panel charge you with breaching AHRR 218A(1) of the Rules (in conjunction with AHRR 218A(2)). Particulars of the Charge are: 1. You are, and were at all relevant times, including between 1 April 2020 and 1 April 2023, a trainer licensed by Office of Racing Integrity Tasmania and a person […]
King Island is not a very big place. Only 1600 people live there. Few of them are involved in the trots. At the meetings run so far this summer only four trainers have turned out a horse. Two of them are the father and son team of Peter and James Jakowenko. Shane Keeler is another. […]
Take a look at what Tasmanian driver Nathan Ford does here as they turn for home. Bloody hell, how obvious can a cheat be? Ford pretends that he isn’t, but he clearly steers the leader off the fence to let the runner boxed up on his back through. It wins of course. That’s what it […]
