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The Tasmanian government has announced an independent investigation after an ABC report on allegations of team driving and race fixing by the state’s most prominent harness racing stable. On Sunday, an ABC investigation aired allegations of unusual races and betting patterns in races dominated by horses from trainer Ben Yole’s stable, as well as concerns about […]
Summit Bloodstock is Ben Yole’s 2nd biggest owner and client. A little known company named SOLOTREK is the biggest. SOLOTREK is owned and run by a man named Stephen Alan Wyles, known as Steve Wyles. Wyles is a former Victorian police officer who worked in the crime squad. He left the force in 1990, and […]
If you haven’t seen the ABC’s brilliant multi-media presentation that was published this morning you should, because it’s brilliant. But it’s only the first tremor of the earthquake that’s coming. Next is a story on the ABC News tonight. Don’t miss it. The real deal though is going to be the series of in-depth stories […]
The word is that Summit Bloodstock and Aaron Bain have been contacting Tasmanian trainers to see if they will take over the training of their mangy old under fed horses from the barn of Ben Yole. You’d be a lunatic to say yes, unless you have a green light and some good gear, but even […]
It is proposed that the Code of Practice will include a set of minimum standards for the care of both thoroughbred and harness racehorses. Work has commenced on the development of the draft code, which will be linked to the Rules of Racing and will therefore become enforceable. Industry will be consulted on the draft. […]
Here is more information the debacle on Sunday at the Launceston trots. When the ABC film crew working on an expose rolled into the course Ben Yole – who knows this is all about him, because we’ve repeatedly told him, and who after years of Ben Yole is Australia’s leading trainer by winners. He has […]
The ABC film crew strolled through the gates of the Launceston trot track unopposed. Ben Yole saw them come in, and raced straight to the stewards demanding that they remove the ABC crew from the course. Almost immediately all of Yole’s drivers on the card joined him in demanding that the Stewards remove the ABC investigators […]
Tasmanian racing is about to be enveloped by a major scandal involving wage, theft, over work leading to near fatal accidents, animal cruelty and a whole lot of other really bad things. The Office of Racing Integrity knows that this firestorm is coming, but do nothing to front foot it by being proactive about the […]
We are told that the film cutting and production process has held up the ABC Four Corners expose on Ben Yole’s barbaric animal cruelty practices for another week or two. It’s coming though, like a runaway steam train. Don’t you worry about that.
