Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
So The Lost Storm is scratched from Sunday’s heat of the Tasmanian Cup at Hobart because predictions of an impending real storm have caused the cancellation of his flight. Oh yeah, right. If that’s the case, how then are fellow Victorian runners in the heat Arggghhh, Modern Bliss, Hes Charlies Angel and Unltimate Vinnie able […]
Tasmanian harness racing trainer Wayne Yole – the 72 year old father of the warned off Ben Yole – has had an average of just under 19 runners a season over the past 5 years, with his most starters in any single year being 43. Our current 2024 season is less than 8 weeks old, […]
Just when about the whole WA harness industry is coming out of the woodwork and pronouncing trots in the state dead, Gloucester Park pops up with a ten race card tonight with all but one of them having full fields. This is the type of thing that the sport in west needs. Big cards with […]
Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockliff, the last Liberal leader still in government left standing, has made the politically suicidal decision to call a snap election, more than a year before its due. His maniacally bad judgement is set to have huge ramifications for racing in the State. At the moment Tassie has 25 members of parliament, […]
The Tasmanian Racing Appeals Board has today denied Ben and Tim Yole and Nathan and Mitch Ford a stay of proceedings on the interim warning offs issued to the quartet in the wake of the release of the Murrihy Report. This means that none of the four will be able to train and drive unless […]
As you can see above, unless there are two of them by the same name, the former Victorian steward Barry Delaney now works as a starter for Harness Racing Victoria. Good luck to him you might say, except that there is a problem. Barry Delaney has been appointed as one of the three interstate members […]
A lot of Tasmanian harness racing watchers are asking how the Steward Gavin Griffin could possibly have sat on the panel that handed trainer Michael Laugher an effective $2000 fine for a substance rule breach – a positive swab – that would usually have seen the offender put out for months. These people’s concern is […]
Victorian barrister Damian Sheales (pictured above) is – along with Jim Murdoch KC, Tim Game SC, and Wayne Pasterfield CT (Campbelltown) – generally regarded as one of the best racing lawyers in the land, a true Group 1 standard performer, and with very good reason given his outstanding record of results. As good as he […]
Dear Peter Profit The report into Ben Yole is a fantastic step forward for our local industry. My concern is the members of the independent stewards panel who have been appointed to investigate Yole further. They are Mr John Hackett and Mr Larry Wilson from QLD, and Mr Barry Delaney from Victoria. The concern I […]
There was yet another one horse race and walkover at Hobart last night as a result of the mass withdrawal of Ben Yole stable runners, making it the third this weekend. This led to an unusual spectacle as the winner of the walkover – the only horse in it, Agouda Ruler – paced along in […]
