Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Conflict of interest with a race starter A matter that was the subject of media reports and review submissions was that of a race starter, employed by Tasracing, who officiated at harness race meetings under ORI control whilst also a paid employee of a leading trainer (employed to drive the trainer’s horse transport to race […]
Race day practices It has been submitted that Yole stable horses, on race days, can be required to stand on horse floats and/or be tied up for an extended period of time of up to 16 hours. For example, for a Hobart race meeting, it has been submitted that horses are often loaded at around […]
Trainer David Waite’s recent run of success as the stand-in trainer for owner Rex Horne, following the former HRNSW and Club Menangle chairman’s first choice trainer Leon Jurd’s disqualification for drug cheating continued last night at Penrith when he recorded a rare double. That made Waite’s tally 8 wins for Jurd and 16 in total […]
Tom Ison had 24 runners on the 9 race card at Tamworth on Tuesday, making him not quite Ben Yole but well on the way. In shades of Yole, 8 of the 9 starters in race 8 were trained by Ison. All of them were owned by either Summit and Bain, or by his father […]
Gday Archie I am a keen observer of the online thoroughbred sales, summit bloodstock purchased 7 horses at the Inglis digital November late online sale . Due to your articles on Summit Bloodstock I watched with interest, and saw that the horses status remained transferred (in no trainers stable) for approximately 6 weeks before ending […]
After God knows how many years of training, and 10 Group 1 winners, all of sudden Rickie Alchin has caught ablaze again. Last night he took two horses to race at Newcastle, and both of them won. That was an easy 10 grand for a 6 hour drive. The cash was good, but the best […]
Wilbur is going to shout the bar at the Hamilton Hotel if his horse named after it Hamo wins The Debut race on Magic Millions day is he? The same Hamilton Hotel that he self-imposed a ban on when they stopped serving drinkers XXXX off the tap? Yeah good. We all believe in Santa Claus […]
1 – $4.4 million – Emma Stewart (VIC) 2 – $3,1 million – Grant Dixon (QLD)** 3 – $2.5 million – Ben Yole (TAS) 4 – $2,3 million – Greg and Skye Bond (WA) 5 – $2.1 million – Gary Hall Sr (WA) 6 – $2.1 million – Belinda McCarthy (NSW) 7 – $1.9 million […]
Our Cosmic Major – note the stable change It would have been a surprise to many not in the know to see Luke McCarthy back as the named trainer of the Cobbitty Equine Farm horses last night at Menangle, with the NSW premiership winning bowler Belinda McCarthy seemingly having retired from the main game. There […]
Stravinsky has been a very limited performer for a long time now, more than a year to be sure. Not even Emma Steward could get more than one win out of him in December the year before last, and after that he was banished to the wasteland of Tasmania, where Bianca Heenan couldn’t really get […]
