Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
When a prominent trot club is racing in extreme heat live on international TV, you’d think the least that they could do between races is to water the track, both to keep the heat down for horses and drivers, and for looks. The Bunbury club obviously didn’t yesterday, and the RWWA Stewards appear not to […]
This photo is by all reports of Ben Yole’s truck multiple defects as it headed to the Bendigo trot trials last night with false plates on, driven by his top man in Victoria – presumably ‘two bob’ Rob Walters, who had just run a red light and didn’t hold a valid license. The truck was […]
We cannot vouch for the truth of this account. But it sounds real according to our experience of receiving threats from what we suspected and perceived to be the Yole stable. It’s only scary if you let it be. This person hasn’t. Good on them. The only thing you have to fear is fear itself. […]
Australia’s champion trot trainer Ben ‘Chainsaw’ Yole turned out more than half the runners on the Hobart program on Sunday, and trained 7 of the 8 winners. The 7 were owned by Summit Bloodstock (1), Warren Viney (1), Solotrek (2), and Emilio Rosati (3). https://www.harness.org.au/racing/results/?firstDate=14-01-2024 Solotrek – a vegetable oil recycling company owned by a […]
It’s good to be a Turnbull, or a Turnbull and McCarthy associate at the very least. Tony Bertwistle is an enthusiast, not a professional driver like Isobel Ross, Jett Turnbull or Nathan Turnbull. Bertwistle doesn’t drive freelance for others, he just steers his own. Sure his drive here was ordinary, but the tactic of both […]
In 62 starts across 5 seasons the fastest time that Van Sank could run in any of it’s 16 wins was 1.56.7. Last night at Albion Park it came out and won in 1.54.7, a full two seconds faster than it had ever run and won in before. That’s an improvement on his personal best […]
Only 7 days ago Max Delight won the Bendigo Cup off the back of a genius Nathan Cracker Jack drive. That made it 3 in a row for the reborn veteran, who all of a sudden looked to be running on young legs. Hurricane Harley was a tough thing beaten in the same race off […]
Well our gallops tips today were shite – 1 winner and 4 placings from 11 races – but the trots are our speciality, and over there we were spot on. Earlier in the week we tipped you Illavabubbles as a good thing, and urged you to get on early. We hope you did, because you […]
The picture you are seeing above is a still shot from the replay of the finish in race 3 at Shepparton last night, You can see as well as I can. How could the inside possibly have been beaten? But it was. If this isn’t the worst camera angle in the world then I don’t […]
It’s not the best look in the world for harness racing when a $1.20 favourite that leads on a track with no sprint lane kicks away needlessly at the 600m mark with it’s stablemate sitting on it’s back and smoking the pipe. The first rule of trot driving is that you always keep the one […]
