Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
A psychopath on ice am I? Guess its better than being a heartless butcher. And a race fixer to boot. I’ve seen these pictures before. Haven’t you? Like I said Team, you don’t know who I am either. You did this, not me. Tasmanian trainer named in betting plunge on suspicious race, as dog food […]
The ABC expose of Ben Yole’s nefarious activities is the biggest scandal in harness racing for a decade. And it has only just begun. Yole’s animal welfare abuses are the subject of episodes in the locker that will be released over the coming days and weeks. His abuses of humans will feature too. This is […]
This race meeting was selected at random. The average life span of a standardbred horse is 25 years. All of these horses should be alive and well. The sport’s peak body Harness Racing Australia is responsible for the registration of deaths. Not a single question has been asked. There is a reason for that. The […]
The Tasmanian Office of Racing Integrity (ORI) is a joke, and a real bad one too. It allows stable hands to smash horses with pieces of poly pipe as their trainer watches on, to force the bastards to get in the pool and swim, and calls it contact to the rump of a horse with […]
Stewards concluded an inquiry into an incident at the Brighton Training Complex on the 30th of September 2022. Trainer Sarah Cotton was found guilty to a charge under the provisions of AR228 (b) – conduct detrimental to the interests of racing – improper conduct. Particulars of the charge were that at the Brighton Training Complex […]
Our story yesterday about the business interests of Ben Yole’s major owner Steve Wyles sparked the attention of a reader, who wrote in to tell us about the joint just up the road from Wyle’s old company Freight Partners in Carrum Downs that boils down dead horses and recycles them into oil. I didn’t quite […]
The Tasmanian government has announced an independent investigation after an ABC report on allegations of team driving and race fixing by the state’s most prominent harness racing stable. On Sunday, an ABC investigation aired allegations of unusual races and betting patterns in races dominated by horses from trainer Ben Yole’s stable, as well as concerns about […]
