Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The average race starts per Standardbred per season increasing from 10.7 in 2000/01 to 12.9 in 2018/19 – Andrew Kelly, CEO Harness Racing Australia, 31 March 2021 The average pacer races 12.9 times a year. Harness Racing Australia say so, therefore it must be true. Here are some of Tasmanian trainer Ben Yole’s numbers*. They […]
Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole winning the Australian Trainer’s Premiership tell us all we need to know about the current state of harness racing outside of Victoria, and to a degree (a small degree) Western Australia. That a bozo from Tasmania who couldn’t train a rat to run up a drain pipe can be crowned the King […]
We decided this morning to take a 2 weeks snapshot of the same fortnight’s racing in Tasmania over the three consecutive years from 2017-2019. What we were looking at was the runners trained by Ben Yole during that fortnight period each year, so that we could attempt to track where they ended up. The fortnight […]
Dr John McKenna is a the race day vet at the Devonport and Launceston trots. He is also believed to be Ben Yole’s vet too, at least for part of the time. If that information is true, you would imagine that it would have been declared to Tasracing as a conflict of interest, for it […]
This is Lord Bazalup. He is a pacer, but more accurately, he is a walker. Jamie Durnberger from Summit Bloodstock owns him. Summit Bloodstock is Australia’s larges harness race horse owner by volume. Ben Yole is Lord Bazalup’s trainer. Last week Ben was honoured by Harness Racing Australia with an award as the nation’s leading […]
A huge controversy has erupted in Tasmania over the racing authority Tasracing seemingly hooking the fields to allow the Ben Yole stable to race its horses up to four times in ten days at the expense of pacers from other stables in the State which are being denied a run at all. Under the Tasmanian […]
Dear Paul, I am writing as a follow up to my email sent on Friday 21st January which did not receive a reply and needs to be addressed. BOTRA has received a high volume of calls and messages in relation to the TTC meeting on January 26th since Friday the 21st. Participants are outraged with […]
Shaun, Thanks for your email from Friday and today raising concerns around the Wednesday 26th January TTC meeting at Elwick. In relation to the Friday email I was of the view that the industry communication that was released on Friday afternoon addressed your concerns and the issues raised. I quote from it below. “We are writing […]
Ben Yole had a winning hull on New Norfolk Cup day. Another Ben – Lexcen – had one on the yacht Australia II when it won the America’s Cup too. It had a winged keel. The yacht designer Lexcen did something in his victory that Yole didn’t do in any of his six-pack of wins […]
