Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
What you see here is the most blatant piece of cheating you could ever see on a racetrack. It is race 1 at Burnie last night. Ben Yole trains 10 of the 12 starters. The 1 horse Keep Playing is the $2.20 favourite. Mark Yole, the trainer’s brother, is its driver. No 2 My Ultimate […]
This is Ima Birubi Boy. He’s no champion, but he’s not a walker either. In January last year Ima Birubi Boy was sent south to Ben Yole in Tasmania to train on a lease deal as a 1.55.4 winner at The Creek just 3 months before. He had 18 starts for Yole and managed just […]
Ben Yole is a terrible trainer. The Tasmanian based harness racer wins premierships by his sheer weight of numbers, but Yole can’t actually train to save his life. You only need look at Sunday’s upcoming meeting at Hobart to see what I mean. Yole doesn’t have a single runner in the 2-year-old events; he has […]
Something is wrong with harness racing in Queensland right now, wretchedly wrong indeed. You can see it just by looking at Grant Dixon’s results this year. The man we call Moses has won the past 6 metropolitan trainers premierships in a row. This year Moses has trained just 4 metro winners from 84 starters, at […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/qld/APC16022114.mp4 I get really sick of trainers and training teams that I believe are cheating both us punters and their professional rivals by breaking the rules of racing. Why can’t these people just be honest? If they are going to do something naughty to a horse, what’s the problem with telling us all? Obviously the […]
https://www-harness-org-au.akamaized.net/sa/GDC01022104.mp4 Arco stepped out for her new owners for the first time last weekend – attracting the biggest crowd seen at the Gawler trials in many years. “It was fantastic. There would have been 100 members there watching her trial, including Lorraine Coombes, from Mildura, who got up at 4am to travel over and get […]
Stewards inquired into an incident reported by Cadet Steward Mr J Steele regarding an incident that he allegedly witnessed in the stabling area subsequent to race 7 involving Mr R Pullen, the trainer of GIPSY TREASURE, and Ms S Gangell, the driver of BORDER CROSS. After taking evidence from Mr Steele, Ms Gangell, Mr Pullen […]
How did Belinda McCarthy, Narelle McCarthy and Craig Cross all get granted ‘A’ Class trainers licenses without having trained a single winner in the season before they were granted their top grade licenses? Do any of these three Cobbity-linked people really train horses? Whatever happened to Belinda and Luke McCarthy being called into HRNSW headquarters […]
This is race 4 on Saturday night at Globe Derby. It was the hottest race you’ve seen this year so far, and maybe ever. The plunge was on Ace’s Daughter. Frank Pullicino – the equally corrupt husband of the multiple times disqualified cheat Gaita, who is banned from holding a license in Victoria – trains […]
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 […]