Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The mail is that talented Tasmanian harness racing trainer/driver Conor Crook has applied for and been granted 16 boxes at the newly constructed Shepparton Training Centre in Victoria, if and when it is ever completed (more on that later). His move can’t come quick enough for Tassie punters, who to a person are sick and […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/vic/KIC09062211.mp4 Coming into race 4 at Kilmore last night the Chainsaw Yole trained 10-year-old pacer Southern GNP had won just 1 race from his previous 34 starts over the past year, most of the runs being down in lowly company in Tasmania. The single win was eight months ago against very poor company in 30-44 […]
There is nothing like a trip across the stormy seas of the Bass Strait to spark an old walker back to life, but don’t tell anyone that because all of a sudden all the seats on the ferry will be booked out by Lourdes style pilgrims and Ben Chainsaw Yole won’t be able to bring […]
Tasmanian trainer Nathan Ford has been suspended or disqualified more times than most people have had hot dinners. Brawls, urine swaps, pull ups, crash and bangs, you name it, he’s done it, and served the time for it too. It’s fair to say he’s not the most straight up and down licensee that you will […]
Our old mate Chainsaw has 62 of the 96 runners in races 2-10 at Launceston last night, which adds up to about two-thirds of them. Based on those numbers he should have won six races. You’d have to be able to train well to that though, and the Saw can’t. So he won just three. […]
Good Feelings is an 11-year-old pacer who has been running since Jesus was a boy playing fullback for Jerusalem, or since Easter 2013 when we celebrated his scintillating stint off the tombstone bench anyway. Up until a few weeks ago the veteran pacer was racing in Tasmania, where under the superb training of Mr B. […]
On Friday night the 6th of May we wrote a story about the Summit Bloodstock owned/Ben Yole trained pacer Machs Mareta running and earning prizemoney in low grade restricted races that it wasn’t eligible to enter. There was no mention whatsoever in any Stewards Report about an inquiry being launched into the matter. We questioned […]
On the 24th of April a pacing mare named Mach’s Mareta – owned by Summit Bloodstock and Bain, and trained by their man Chainsaw Yole – started in a race at Hobart. It ran second, and earned $1530 dollars in prizemoney. The problem is that the race was restricted to horses rated NR53-57. Machs Mareta […]
Velocity Stride is a walker, Coming into race 6 at last night’s Hobart meeting it’s record over the past two seasons was 1 win from 46 starts, and it was about to run around in a race of higher class than it had been getting dizzy in lately. So it was a huge surprise to […]
The Ben Yole stable gets away with terrible things in Tasmania. Race fixing rorts are probably the least of them, but gee they stick in your throat. Yole trained the three horses running 1-2-3 on the fence in the 5th race at Launceston on Saturday night. The trio were all owned by Yole and his […]
