Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Emma Stewart and Mark Pitt did something last in Launceston that no trainer or driver have ever done before. They made history The pair competed in nine races, and won every single one of them. The only reason that they didn’t train and drive the card was because they didn’t have a runner in race […]
ONE of Tasmania’s most experienced greyhound trainers Gavin Whitney has been disqualified for life after being found guilty of using an animal skin which was believed to have been used while educating young greyhounds. Stewards discovered the skin, believed to be that of a wallaby, during a routine kennel inspection on September 12. Whitney was […]
Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole won 4 of the 8 races at the Hobart trots last night. It was no surprise given that he trained more than 2/3rds of the runners on the card. How the hell could a half-smart punter possibly have a bet on a program like this? It’s ripe for race fixing, and race […]
These are the owners of pacers trained by animal abuser Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole that raced at Launceston on Sunday the 27th of March 2022. They should all be ashamed of themselves. Aaron Bain South Australian horse trainer, businessman and harness racing media personality. In partnership with Summit Bloodstock as Australia’s leading owner. Andrew Stuart Rangiora […]
A greyhound training “bullring” where dogs were baited with live rabbits was so popular trainers would have to wait in line to set their dogs loose, a court has heard. Western Sydney greyhound owner Todd Fear has told an inquiry into NSW greyhound racing he went about 20 times to a property where trainer Bruce Carr […]
The stories that follow contain extremely disturbing images of deceased racing animals. They feature even more disturbing human beings. If you choose to read on, please prepare for your stomach to be churned.
This is not a scene from the apocalypse, nor is one a still shot from Mad Max. But it could be. What you are seeing is ‘Australia’s greatest harness racing trainer’ Ben Yole’s registered training establishment, and how he keeps the hundreds of discarded horses that he acquires from stables around the country on 50-50 […]
