Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
It was only two days ago I was telling a trot mate about what a promising talent the young Tasmanian trainer-driver Conor Crook was, and wrapping the kid up. Then the little bastard does this. Crook is on the horse 3 back the fence in the purple. The one driven dead. It’s the $1.95 favourite […]
A story published this morning based on information provided to the author, coupled with the ‘facts’ stated in the official Stewards Report, has subsequently proven to be incorrect. We apologise to Ms Hannah Van Dongen, and in particular to Mr Lane O’Shannessey for the erroneous report reprinted from the Steward;s findings that there was an […]
On Sunday night at Devonport trainer Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole set a world record that is unlikely to ever be beaten for as long as the sphere spins like a top on its axis. 8 runners stood down from future competition in the space of just 5 races. If you lined them up by their aggregate […]
In August a Tasmanian harness racing trainer named Matthew Cooper was disqualified for 2 years for doping his horse Call Me Hector. There is a strong argument to say that trainer Cooper got off very light. He hit his horse with a cocktail of three different drugs, each of which were found in its system […]
The word out of Tasmania is that some people believe that there are a cartel of Turkish jockeys working together to do some funny things on the race tracks of the Apple Island. The leader of the pack is said to be a handsome, smooth talking and suave senior hoop named Ismail Toker. Toker is […]
Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole trains 58 of the 91 starters on the seven race card at Hobart tonight. How ridiculous is that? Here are his starter numbers in each race. R1 – 10/13 R2 – 8/12 R3 – 9/12 R4 – 5/13 R5 – 7/13 R6 – 9/15 R7 – 10/13 Chainsaw should on numbers win […]
Tasmanian thoroughbred racing’s principal track at Elwick, Hobart has been a cluster duck since the wholesale reconstruction a couple of years ago that saw the ‘old fashioned’ grass grown in dirt course proper that had worked reasonably well for almost 200 years dug up and replaced with a ‘modern’ Strathayr sand-based track It has been […]
