Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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of December 2022, without any fanfare at all or public any public statement about the matter, Harness Racing Australia repealed the racing rules that required owners of horses to notify either they or the State Controlling Body – or both – that a […]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 […]
The ABC has missed the big picture. They’ve zoned in on a couple of tote bets on Ben Yole horses in a race rort. That was just some bum in the camp who got greedy. The real money is running through Steve Walters and his wife’s Betfair account. Walters is the brother of Robbie Walters, […]
Is the Tasracing CEO Justin Hemlich for real? In the face of the biggest firestorm ever in Tasmanian racing history, at a time when the non-harness racing public are horrified by what they have seen on the ABC, and will be even more horrified when they see the more that is to come, Hemlich is […]
An advisory from the Office of the Ombudsman of Tasmania A significant barrier to blowing the whistle (making a disclosure) is fear of reprisal. To address this, the Public Interest Disclosures Act 2002 provides protection against ‘detrimental action’ to people who have made, or intend to make, a protected disclosure. Detrimental action includes: action causing injury, loss […]
Tasmanian Greens leader Cassy O’Connor also displayed pictures in state parliament that she said showed Mr Yole’s horses being “strung up … and being dragged to their death” at Mr Bullock’s property. “Once Yole’s neglected horses reach their use-by date, he sends them down to Bullock to kill, butcher and feed to his dogs,” she said […]
Prize money by code The thoroughbred code had higher levels of growth in prize money at a national level, with a nine per cent annual average growth rate between 2015-16 and 2018-19. Whilst Tasmania’s thoroughbred prize money growth was the highest of the three codes, averaging seven per cent over the four year period, it […]
