Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Ben Yole is untouchable in Tasmania. He gets done, the fields drop by a third. That means that the races do too. If the number of races drop, harness racing is rooted. That’s what the authorities believe. It is not true. No man is an island unto himself. Did Victorian racing end when Darren Weir […]
It seems that in Tasmania that there is one rule for Ben Yole, and another set of rules for the rest. There is a reason for that. This is a graph showing the number of starters per season the Ben Yole stable turned out each season from 2012 to 2020, compared to the number of […]
An executive with a Nicholasville, Ky., company that sells “preventative and regenerative therapies” for horses was named in a federal indictment March 9 of 19 people involved in an alleged systemic and covert administration of illegal performance-enhancing drugs to racehorses. Michael Kegley Jr., director of sales at Medivet Equine, and veterinarian Dr. Kristian Rhein were […]
That is black and white isn’t it? Unless the Tasmanian control body determines that running six or more times in a month is beneficial to a pacer’s welfare – which appears highly unlikely to ever be the case – the maximum number of times that a horse can race in any 30 day period is […]
You might remember me writing earlier in the week about the hottest race of the year so far, the last at the Carrick trots last Friday night. Well the plot thickens. The Stewards clearly suspect that Conor Crook, the best named driver in Australia, may have deliberately steered his horse Chilla Breeze into the sulky […]
Jackson Painting does not have the track record of an honest man. During his very chequered harness racing career Painting has been tipped out of the game by the stewards for long periods variously for: Betting against horses he was driving Drenching horses with milkshakes Owning and/or training horses under bowler names while disqualified Lying […]
This is the betting on the last race at Carrick in Tasmania on Friday night. Only one horse in the race has been backed for any real money, the rank outsider Our Quinn, trained by Ben Yole. It’s form is terrible. 0-9-0-0-0-7-0-0-0-6-7-5-9-0-6-0-0-0-7-5-0-0 from it’s past twenty-two starts, beaten out if sight each time. Our Quinn […]
Copy That is the most hard done by horse in the whole wide world. Along with Lochinvar Art he is also the best pacer in the Southern Hemisphere. The All Star combo of Nat Rasmussen and Mark Purdon know it. That is why they structure their own team’s driving tactics to get him beat. There […]
What a great edition of the Shirley Turnbull Memorial it was last night at Bathurst, a great old fashioned race of the sort that grass roots harness racing lovers like me yearn for and adore, a sheer test of speed and stamina over the searching 2795 metres test that sorts out the men and women […]
Harness Racing NSW CEO John Dumesny may well live in a $3 million apartment at Harold Park that he’d acquired from the developer that the club he ran sold the land to, but Craig Cross is not the trainer of Dominate. He can’t be, for the old girl has been long dead. Craig Cross’s six […]
