Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Once they were warriors, pacers who strode the national stage. Then they were injured, and sent to Ben Yole. He drugged them to mask the pain, and on they raced. Then one day the drugs didn’t work anymore, and they broke down in pain. This is where they ended up. As offal. It’s awful. The […]
It appears that the controversial former NZ Racing Chief Steward transplanted to Tasmania Ross Neal is a leopard who takes his arrogant spots with him wherever he goes. The Tasmanian’s are calling him the Hangman, for it appears that whenever a licensee rings him with a tricky question, rather than answer it he simply hangs […]
What you are seeing in the picture at the top is the start of the $100 000 Tasmania Cup run at Hobart on Saturday night. You would never know it looking at this, but there were actually 9 horses drawn on the front line mark from the stand. Why then is that horse in the […]
Speaking of Alex ‘The Juice’ Ashwood, there he was in Tasmania on the weekend too, smack bang in the middle on another episode of the popular reality TV program ‘Circus Days – the Crisis in Australian Stewarding’. The Juice is the part-owner of a pacer named Tactile Sensation, one of many horses that he owns […]
111 years of history ended yesterday, with the running of the last meeting ever at the Devonport Showgrounds, which is being retired to the dust bin of small shit track history as the booming Tasracing prepare to spend $8 million building a new dual dog/trot complex in the State’s third biggest town. Huge Devonport is. It’s […]
Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole contested seven of the nine races on Tasmania Cup night at Hobart. He trained 32 of the 92 runners in those seven races. How many did he win? One. Australia’s greatest trainer must have been having an off night. Usually he turns out half the field each race and wins two. If […]
Tarleton Riley is an 10-year-old pacer who has been racing since the year 2014 and has had 225 starts. Riley raced in the last at Hobart last night at 11.00pm. He sat three-wide without cover for the last lap and finished a tired sixth. Today – less than 24 hours later – the poor old […]
Well whoever would have thought it could happen? Tasmanian racing has turned the corner. Against all odds, they’ve kicked huge goals. Wagering turnover on the gallops has skyrocketed from $203 million to $343 million, an increase of almost 70% in a single year. Trots turnover is up 65%, from $73.5 million to $121.4 million. Turnover […]
Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole from Tasmania is officially Australia’s greatest harness racing trainer. He is also one of the nation’s most prolific individual horse killers, which is why we call him Chainsaw – that and the fact that he and his mate the greyhound trainer Anthony Bullock chop the trotters they kill into pieces and feed […]
Have a goddamn look at this. And try not to vomit. It is the Launceston trots on the 13th of February, and this is the feature race, the $20 000 Sinbad Bay Final. Todd Rattray – the driver of the leader Magician, in the red and white – has taken his foot out of the […]
