Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
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 […]
