Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
The head on vision from the Launceston trots on the 13th of February 2022 is there on the Tasracing website. It is there for race 5 too. But it has mysteriously disappeared for race 4. The race in which a horse named Magician was backed to win more than $10 000. One and the same […]
Stewards considered the serious consequences of the shift from MAGICIAN, that being that the interference to MAYLEEJAE EAGLE which resulted in the gelding falling clearly prejudiced its chances and therefore invoked AHRR 66(g), the pertinent part of the rule being that a horse may be disqualified from a race or placed in a lower finishing […]
The state government was unable to confirm or deny that Tasmania’s chief harness racing steward Steve Shinn had been stood down and was under investigation when questioned in Parliament on Thursday. Labor’s racing spokesman Dean Winter asked newly-appointed Racing Minister Madeleine Ogilvie: “What is the investigation in relation to and what do you think this […]
The CEO of TASracing Paul Eriksson arrived in the Apple Isle three years ago with much fanfare. Eriksson was going to be the saviour of Tassie racing, we were told. He was going to fix the broken down tracks, and fix the finances while he was at it. He was going to restore integrity to […]
Reports are filtering out of Tasmania that Chief Steward Steve Shinn has been stood down from duty just hours before he was due to chair the panel at tonight’s Launceston meeting. Speculation is that the stand down is related to the betting activities of certain licensees under his watch. The last race at Launceston last […]
