Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Tasmanian trainer Nathan Ford has been suspended or disqualified more times than most people have had hot dinners. Brawls, urine swaps, pull ups, crash and bangs, you name it, he’s done it, and served the time for it too. It’s fair to say he’s not the most straight up and down licensee that you will […]
Our old mate Chainsaw has 62 of the 96 runners in races 2-10 at Launceston last night, which adds up to about two-thirds of them. Based on those numbers he should have won six races. You’d have to be able to train well to that though, and the Saw can’t. So he won just three. […]
Good Feelings is an 11-year-old pacer who has been running since Jesus was a boy playing fullback for Jerusalem, or since Easter 2013 when we celebrated his scintillating stint off the tombstone bench anyway. Up until a few weeks ago the veteran pacer was racing in Tasmania, where under the superb training of Mr B. […]
On Friday night the 6th of May we wrote a story about the Summit Bloodstock owned/Ben Yole trained pacer Machs Mareta running and earning prizemoney in low grade restricted races that it wasn’t eligible to enter. There was no mention whatsoever in any Stewards Report about an inquiry being launched into the matter. We questioned […]
On the 24th of April a pacing mare named Mach’s Mareta – owned by Summit Bloodstock and Bain, and trained by their man Chainsaw Yole – started in a race at Hobart. It ran second, and earned $1530 dollars in prizemoney. The problem is that the race was restricted to horses rated NR53-57. Machs Mareta […]
Velocity Stride is a walker, Coming into race 6 at last night’s Hobart meeting it’s record over the past two seasons was 1 win from 46 starts, and it was about to run around in a race of higher class than it had been getting dizzy in lately. So it was a huge surprise to […]
The Ben Yole stable gets away with terrible things in Tasmania. Race fixing rorts are probably the least of them, but gee they stick in your throat. Yole trained the three horses running 1-2-3 on the fence in the 5th race at Launceston on Saturday night. The trio were all owned by Yole and his […]
Emma Stewart and Mark Pitt did something last in Launceston that no trainer or driver have ever done before. They made history The pair competed in nine races, and won every single one of them. The only reason that they didn’t train and drive the card was because they didn’t have a runner in race […]
ONE of Tasmania’s most experienced greyhound trainers Gavin Whitney has been disqualified for life after being found guilty of using an animal skin which was believed to have been used while educating young greyhounds. Stewards discovered the skin, believed to be that of a wallaby, during a routine kennel inspection on September 12. Whitney was […]
Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole won 4 of the 8 races at the Hobart trots last night. It was no surprise given that he trained more than 2/3rds of the runners on the card. How the hell could a half-smart punter possibly have a bet on a program like this? It’s ripe for race fixing, and race […]
