Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Hot off the press from Tasmania is news that Ben Yole Racing’s nominations for Friday’s meeting at Scottsdale have been refused. Work Safe Tasmania are rumoured to be taking action to shut the stable down by the end of the day. The reasons for both are unknown at this stage. More to follow. Watch this […]
Driver alleges assault at Carrick races At the Carrick (Tasmania) New Year’s Eve meeting on Sunday, driver Mark Yole alleges he was assaulted by another race participant following the sixth race on the card. Yole had driven James Cagney, a horse trained by his brother Ben, to victory, before the alleged incident. The stewards’ report […]
Ben Yole trained 45 of the 67 starters on the card at the Burnie trots in Tasmania last night. His father Wayne trained another 4 of them, making it 48 out of 67. If you take out race 5, in which Yole had only 2 runners it makes it , it makes it 43 out […]
This sounds hard to believe, but we are told that it’s true. Ash Rushton, who was appointed to the dual (and conflicting) roles of Tasmanian director of racing and general manager of the Office of Racing Integrity (ORI) on Boxing Day, has resigned just a day later. This must be an all time record in […]
Satna Clause is coming to town is he? Ladbrokes have a Tacing department do they? Yeah good. TasRacing’s programmers are dyslexic more like it. Mary Krismass and a Happee Noo Yere too ewe two.
The horses that you see above are pacers trained by Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole. They look good don’t they? Ray Murrihy handed in his ‘independent’ report into claims of race fixing and animal abuse by Yole a month ago. The Tasmanian Government have been sitting on it. Last night Tasracing sent us their weekly spruik about […]
There is movement at the station in Tasmania, and it started in Hong Kong. The Tassie minister for racing Felix Ellis was not happy to discover that the CEO of Tasracing Andrew Jenkins had spent the last week in Honkers with the chairman of the board Jean Phair on a trip fully funded by Tasracing. […]
Ben Yole’s best mate the Tasmanian greyhound trainer Anthony Bullock – who was recently disqualified for life after live baiting after the tail of a pademelon (a small possum sized kangaroo) was found on a lure at his property – has appealed his DQ, claiming that deceitful animal activists had ‘planted’ the tail. It’s a […]
Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole is making hay while the sun still shines until Ray Murrihy’s full report into his nefarious activities is publicly released, which surely can’t be too far away. Chainsaw won 5 of the 8 races on the card at Hobart last night, which wasn’t all too hard given that he trained most of […]
Last week Tasracing was questioned in a government scrutiny meeting about participants not having workers compensation cover, a burning question in light of the terrible recent accident involving the young staff of Ben Yole . Tasracing’s CEO Andrew Jenkins advised the parliamentarians on the committee that he was looking into the matter. After a lot […]
