Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Anthony Bullock is Tasmania’s top greyhound trainer. He has won 13 of the past 14 State Premierships. Which is probably a good reason why dog racing in the Apple Isle should be shut. It’s well-known that I both like greyhounds as animals, and that I like racing them, and I don’t think that as a […]
While the all the talk in the greyhound world and wider is the belated life disqualification of Anthony Bullock from the sport and the circumstances leading to the penalty, including the reasons as to why it took so long, there is another recent case in Tasmania that highlights the laxity of integrity management in the […]
A young employee of Yole Harness Racing Stables who was involved in a serious accident that killed four horses and left three passengers injured has fronted court charged with five offences. Rowella woman Lily Kathleen Blundstone, 21, appeared in Launceston Magistrates Court on Tuesday. She is charged with two counts of causing grievous bodily harm by […]
So much for Tasmania’s announced intention to implement new policies preventing any single trainer – specifically Ben Yole – from having more than half the field in a race. It appears to have gone the way of the dodo, probably the same dodo who wrote the policy replete with loopholes that you could drive a […]
At the age of 73 Tasmanian trot trainer Mark Geeves might well be getting a little long in the tooth, but he’s certainly no mug. The bloke has been around harness racing a long time, and used to drive Flashing Red back in the days when it was raced and trained in Tasmania. He won […]
Foul driving is one of the most serious offences in the racing rule book, and usually one of the most severely punished too. The minimum punishment for the rule breach in Victoria is 6 months, a penalty which is quite consistently applied, and quite reasonably too given the gravity of the offence. Foul Driving 168(1)(f) […]
With regard to the governance of welfare conditions at Tasmanian harness racing establishments, the current situation is that: • the Rules of Racing prohibit the mistreatment of horses, however they are deficient in that they do not prescribe what is considered a minimum standard for horses and facilities at training establishments; • the Animal Welfare […]
The man below is this bloke above. An Auckland man who starved his horses, to the point where they had to eat their own faeces, has been sentenced in the Auckland District Court. The man — who had over 40 years experience in the harness racing industry — was convicted of 30 offences involving 11 […]
We made a mistake yesterday. In our stories about a poor woman being charged with GBH over crashing taking Ben Yole’s horses back from the track we said it was Bronte Miller. It wasn’t. The 20-year-old kid was Maree Wakefield. Our apologies. But the principle is still the same. Our mail is that Yole has […]
Yeah bro, I did have to bring Aaron Bain into it, and I will tell you exactly why. Bain and/or his business partners Summit Bloodstock or its principals Jamie Durnberger-Smith and Jake Webster owned 20 horses that raced at Hobart on the night of the fateful accident. All of them, each and every one, was […]
