Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
Ben Yole is back at Burnie and he wins four races, one of them as usual with every runner in the field. Chainsaw’s 72 year old father Wayne – who has trained just 3 winners in the past 15 years, but had a whole bunch of Bain/Summit/Solotrek horses transferred to him after his son was […]
This has been posted by Dean winter the ALP member for the Tasmanian state electorate of Franklin, a seat in which I once helped to run a successful campaign for the former opposition leader and Labor rat David O’Byrne. Winter says that 17 of Ben Yole’s horses have been scratched today because their drivers have […]
Harness Industry Release Friday 1 March 2024 Tasracing notes the decision of the Supreme Court of Tasmania earlier today. Tasracing CEO Andrew Jenkins said the ruling meant that the company was unable to take any further action to prevent harness racing industry participants Ben and Tim Yole and Nathan and Mitchell Ford from entering race […]
Despite our half-hearted efforts yesterday we were unable to draw any information out of the team Yole lawyers regarding the mail about TasRacing going to the Supreme Court in an attempt to prevent he and his boys from racing this weekend. It didn’t matter in the end because we sussed the truth of it from […]
The word out of the apple island is that Tasracing, still reeling after its big defeat at the Racing Appeal Board, are making application to the Supreme Court to prevent Ben Yole from racing his stable horses in his planned comeback to the track this week. The grounds for the mooted application are unknown at […]
How can Ben Yole have horses racing this weekend at Hobart & Burnie when they haven’t and can’t have been in the care of a licensed trainer for the last 28 days as required by the rules, given that until a week ago Yole was warned off? If you are warned off, obviously you can’t […]
Hey AB Why would anyone want to help Tas racing? Totally incompetent – it is so bad perhaps it is deliberate. They still have a hope but they don’t have the balls AHR rule 23 (13) “The Controlling Body or Stewards may reject a nomination without giving any reason” It is as clear as day […]
The word out of Tasmania is that one of the Ben Yole drivers who only a couple of days ago won his appeal against being warned off has thrown a personal positive swab to cocaine at the Hobart trots tonight? They say the trainer – last name Ford, first initial M – was given the […]
Ben Yole with his gun lawyer Damian Sheales A lot of people are shaking their fists at the sky and cursing the Tasmanian Racing Appeal Board for letting Ben Yole off the hook by upholding his appeal against being warned off and allowing him back into the harness racing game. “How could this possibly have […]
