Life Imitating Art
Take a close look at banned greyhound trainer and Ben Yole mate Anthony Bullock’s hat. Ulverstone Pet Foods. He has to be taking the piss doesn’t he? That or it’s just a case of life imitating art.
Has Bullock Breached His Disqualification Conditions Within a Day? – And Has Chainsaw Yole Aided and Abetted Him?
The word out of Tasmania is that the disgraced 2greyhound trainer Anthony Bullock, who only 2 days ago was disqualified for life for live baiting related offences, was seen yesterday in a new role working horses at the property of his great mate Ben Yole. How can this be so? Disqualifications from one code carry […]
Bullock is Thrown Off the Racing Bus, and Good Riddance – Next Stop His Mate Chainsaw Yole
The announcement of the life disqualification of the obviously continued incorrigible live baiter Anthony Bullock is welcome breath of fresh air from a fetid Tasmanian racing environment. Bullock – the mate of Ben Yole, and the man who chainsawed his unwanted horses into pieces and fed them to his hounds – has been put out […]
Dead Dogs and Despicable Demons – Why Anthony Bullock Should Be Banned From Racing Greyhounds in Australia and Around the World (First Published June 2022)
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 […]
Why Tasmanian Racing Integrity is Stranded in a Deep, Self Dug Hole
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 […]
Ben Yole Stables Worker in Court Charged with Rowella Crash
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 […]
Ben Yole is a Euonymus Vine Strangling Harness Racing – And Tasracing are the Farmers Who Fertilize It
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 […]
Good Horseman are Like Fine Wines, They Just Get Better With Age
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 […]
3 Weeks For This? – Gee It’s Light
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) […]
The Murrihy Report Proves an Absolute Waste of Time
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 […]