Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
It seems I was wrong when I wrote that Anthony Bullock would have to shoot Ben Yole’s unwanted trotters and cut them up with chainsaws at his place now that the Council has banned him from doing it at his kennels at Tamar Valley. I wasn’t aware until today that in late 2020 Bullock had […]
It is intended that the policy will provide smaller trainers with the opportunity to consistently gain access to ratings-based handicap races. The 1 July date was identified for the policy’s introduction to allow an appropriate lead time for these smaller trainers to prepare their horses for races they elect to target. What a load of […]
New allegations of animal cruelty, doping, corruption, wage theft, tax evasion and sexual harassment within the harness racing industry demonstrate the need for a broader inquiry than that currently underway, Labor says. Shadow Racing Minister Dean Winter said he had been provided with witness statements given to the Murrihy Inquiry which he said outline even […]
Has anyone got a a couple of poles? An umbrella? Some grass? Anything, anything? Anything at all? Sorry Chainsaw. Not quite.
We have it on excellent authority that Ben Yole Racing did not have workers compensation cover for his young workers involved in the tragic car accident in January 2023. In the State of Tasmania workers are covered under the Safe Work Tasmania Workers Compensation insurance scheme when they are working. That is, working under or […]
It beggars belief … that it took a bunch of journalists to uncover what was pretty clearly on the tip of every industry participant’s tongue about suspicions of race fixing. Dean Winter – ALP Racing Spokesperson The Tasmanian Racing Minister Madeleine Ogilvie was asked in a Standing Committee in Parliament yesterday if she had ever […]
Back when I grew up in Geebung, if your dog bit the drunk next door who beat the crap out of his wife so hard every night that she screamed and wailed the Council would seize it and take it to the pound and put it down. Not the prick who took his belt to […]
2. POLICY 2.1. Except as otherwise provided for by this Policy, horses which are trained by or under the effective control of a trainer will not be selected to comprise more than fifty percent (50%) of the starters in any race field. 2.1.1 Where the total available nominations, and therefore race field size, is an […]
On the 31st of August 2022, and then again on the 9th of December 2022, without any fanfare at all or public any public statement about the matter, Harness Racing Australia repealed the racing rules that required owners of horses to notify either they or the State Controlling Body – or both – that a […]
We have been writing for a long time now about missing presumed dead Ben Yole horses. Well, I can announce now with 100 percent certainty that we have identified two horses that Yole or his owners have notified Tasracing and HRA are retired, are in fact dead. Tarleton Reilly and Heidi Go Seek are the […]
