Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
The man in the picture is Anthony Bullock, Tasmania’s leading greyhound trainer. Bullock is a close friend and business associate of Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole. He is not a licensed horse trainer. The horse that Bullock is leading, and most of the others in the pictures to follow, are broken down pacers formerly trained by Ben […]
This is what happens to the horses that are sent to Ben Yole. They break down. So he sends them to Anthony Bullocks place, where they are shot in the head. Then they are hung from trees so that the blood can drain from their lifeless bodies, and fall like red pain-filled rain upon the […]
The blood has drained from the horse’s bodies. The chainsawing had been done. Now the cook up begins. Send in the hounds.
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 […]
