Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Tasracing has won a courtroom battle to block harness racing identities Ben Yole, Tim Yole, Nathan Ford, and Mitchell Ford from entering racetracks under its control. The move to ban the foursome came early this year, with Tasracing issuing “warning-off” notices on February 2 to those adversely named in the Murrihy Report into the harness racing […]
Breaking news out of Launceston is that Ben Yole and others (presumably his brother and the Ford brothers) have lost their substantive appeal against being warned off from all racetracks. We are told that TasRacing will be reissuing the warning off notices against the four on Monday, meaning if the mail is right that after […]
See the Stewards Report from Sunday’s Launceston harness meeting on Sunday? The Tasmanian race day Stewards questioned trainer B – for Ben – Yole about the performance of Endeavour Stride in race 9. That would be fine except that Ben Yole isn’t the officially registered trainer of the horse. His father Wayne Yole is. It […]
OFFICE OF RACING INTEGRITY and MR MITCHELL FORD Date of hearing: Friday 29th March 2024 Stewards Panel: Neil Finnigan (Chair); Roger Brown Present: Mr Mitchell Ford Rule: Australian Harness Racing Rules Charge: That Mr Mitchell Ford did present to drive at the Tasmanian Trotting Club meeting on Sunday 25th […]
Mitch Ford pleaded guilty to the charge of having Amphetamine, Ecstasy, Benzodiazepines and Cocaine Metabolites in his system when he presented to drive at the Hobart meeting on Sunday the 5th of February, and was sentenced on the basis of his claim that the drugs were the residue from a single pill that he had taken […]
This above is a paid half-page advertisement that Tasracing had taken out in the Hobart Mercury this week to promote the three codes of racing taking place over the Easter period. Unfortunately is doesn’t promote anything at all, other than Tasracing’s rank stupidity. There aren’t any harness races at Elwick in Hobart on Friday, they […]
In 14 seasons between 2008 and 2023 Tasmanian trainer Wayne Yole had 112 starters across all tracks, for just 13 winners. Since his son Ben struck stormy waters, in the not yet 3 months alone of this current season the 72-year Yole – who just by conicidence happens to live at the same address as […]
Why did Guy Looks Good go so bad in this race at Burnie on Sunday? If he really was tying up, then why? Was it because the Bain/Summit owned pacer hadn’t been exercised properly in the 7 weeks leading into this race? After all, lack of conditioning for a race is one of the major […]
This is the official reason for the scratching of 17 Yole trained horses from the Bunbury meeting on the weekend, as reported by the Stewards. As we foreshadowed in our story about the issue, politician Dean Winter was wrong about the horses being scratched because their appointed driver refused to take the reins. That tale […]
