Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We all know now about ANOM, the supposedly super secret uncrackable phone messaging app that a police informer developed and sold to almost every major criminal syndicate in the world, thereby opening a gate that allowed the cops to listen in on every call and message that the syndicates made. That in turn allowed police […]
The word is that Summit Bloodstock and Aaron Bain have been contacting Tasmanian trainers to see if they will take over the training of their mangy old under fed horses from the barn of Ben Yole. You’d be a lunatic to say yes, unless you have a green light and some good gear, but even […]
Tasmanian harness racing is presently standing under the glare of the spotlight as the public face of state sanctioned gratuitous animal cruelty and wanton equine abuse, and it deserves to be too. Soon the horrors being inflicted on horses by Ben Yole that have made him a millionaire will be exposed on national television, and […]
It is proposed that the Code of Practice will include a set of minimum standards for the care of both thoroughbred and harness racehorses. Work has commenced on the development of the draft code, which will be linked to the Rules of Racing and will therefore become enforceable. Industry will be consulted on the draft. […]
Here is more information the debacle on Sunday at the Launceston trots. When the ABC film crew working on an expose rolled into the course Ben Yole – who knows this is all about him, because we’ve repeatedly told him, and who after years of Ben Yole is Australia’s leading trainer by winners. He has […]
The ABC film crew strolled through the gates of the Launceston trot track unopposed. Ben Yole saw them come in, and raced straight to the stewards demanding that they remove the ABC crew from the course. Almost immediately all of Yole’s drivers on the card joined him in demanding that the Stewards remove the ABC investigators […]
With the Canadian superstar administrator Greg Gangle departing the banks of the Murrumbidgee to take up residence on the Yarra River floodplain, the hot word in the public bar of the International Hotel at Wagga is that the current Chief Steward and local boy Travis Quick is the raging hot fave to jump the table […]
Does anyone remember the so-called Cobram race fixing rort from a couple of years ago? The one that saw Nathan ‘Cracker’ Jack and Mark Pitt charged with criminal offences and convicted, with the convictions later overturned on appeal? It was a nightmare for the subsequently acquitted star duo, one that could quite easily have ended […]
We are told that the film cutting and production process has held up the ABC Four Corners expose on Ben Yole’s barbaric animal cruelty practices for another week or two. It’s coming though, like a runaway steam train. Don’t you worry about that.
