Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This race meeting was selected at random. The average life span of a standardbred horse is 25 years. All of these horses should be alive and well. The sport’s peak body Harness Racing Australia is responsible for the registration of deaths. Not a single question has been asked. There is a reason for that. The […]
Gee that bloke one from the right is good looking. His wife tells him so every time he slings her a few hundred to buy shoes. I hear he writes stories about racing. Katrina Purdon is better looking though. Almost as handsome as Ba. I wonder why Jamie didn’t throw in a watch when Belle […]
If Ben Hope was a horse and they’d put him for sale at Canterbury Agricultural Park as a yearling he would have been the top price lot. Any buyer would want this well conformed colt by the multiple group 1 winning champion sire Greg Hope out of the multiple group 1 winning dam Nina Hope, […]
Our story yesterday about the business interests of Ben Yole’s major owner Steve Wyles sparked the attention of a reader, who wrote in to tell us about the joint just up the road from Wyle’s old company Freight Partners in Carrum Downs that boils down dead horses and recycles them into oil. I didn’t quite […]
Have you read Adman Hamilton’s latest polemic on the state of harness racing, and how to fix it? Adman says that we need to modernize the sport by turning it in to Trot Rod city. Trot races take too long he reckons. Back in the day a study showed that 30% of air time on […]
The Tasmanian government has announced an independent investigation after an ABC report on allegations of team driving and race fixing by the state’s most prominent harness racing stable. On Sunday, an ABC investigation aired allegations of unusual races and betting patterns in races dominated by horses from trainer Ben Yole’s stable, as well as concerns about […]
Summit Bloodstock is Ben Yole’s 2nd biggest owner and client. A little known company named SOLOTREK is the biggest. SOLOTREK is owned and run by a man named Stephen Alan Wyles, known as Steve Wyles. Wyles is a former Victorian police officer who worked in the crime squad. He left the force in 1990, and […]
If you haven’t seen the ABC’s brilliant multi-media presentation that was published this morning you should, because it’s brilliant. But it’s only the first tremor of the earthquake that’s coming. Next is a story on the ABC News tonight. Don’t miss it. The real deal though is going to be the series of in-depth stories […]
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 […]
