The Trots

What the Hell is Jason Grimson’s Hollywood Rooki Doing Running Around in a Non-Tab at the Toowoomba Show For 300 Hundred Bucks? – He and Lola Are Trying to Steal Archie and the Balmain Boxer’s Ekka Dream – Good Luck

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Regular readers of this site will be most familiar with Hollywood Rooki, the one time legless walker that the World’s Greatest Trainer (South of the Tweed division) Jason Grimson transformed into a two time 1.54.6 winner at Goulburn who has won 9 from 15 since joining his barn last year, and put together a winning […]

Animal Welfare The Gallops

Australia’s Most Over-Raced Horse Slips Up to Darwin, Steps up to the Mile, and Slips Under Our Guard

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Regular readers of this site well know the story of the warhorse Masterati, the most over-raced galloper in Australia. (Those who don’t can click here to catch up on our stories about the horse who’s been flogged to death). Last Saturday we tipped you into Masterati at his NT debut over 1100 metres in Alice […]

Animal Welfare Tasmania

The Killing Fields – How Tasmania’s Leading Trainer Races Horses to Die – Part 2 – 202 Dead Horses Hanging on the Wall – And Trainer Ben Yole Killed Them All (WARNING – GRAPHIC CONTENT MAY CAUSE DISTRESS)

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HRA maintains a robust traceability database which was referenced in a submission from the Australian Veterinary Association Ltd to the Martin Inquiry which quotes, “EVA does concede that Harness Racing Australia has taken serious action on this issue in the last 18 months by making owners update activity status of Standardbred racehorses in ‘real time.’” […]

Animal Welfare Tasmania

The Killing Fields – How Tasmania’s Leading Trainer Races Horses to Die – Part 1 – Meet the Devil – His Name is Ben Yole

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Ben Yole has won the past five Tasmanian harness race training premierships in succession. He wins these Premierships because he turns out ten times as many runners as any other trainer in the State. Yole gets all these horses – hundreds of them – from around Australia by either buying them out of cheap claiming […]

Greyhound

Jimbob Takes the Fall for the Rake – And the Chief Steward and his Sidekick Walk Away Scot Free – Life Just Ain’t Fair

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Poor bloody ‘Jimbob’ Jaymz Smith. He’s taken the fall for the loose rake at Townsville. Resigned from his job as starter he has. Life just ain’t fair. The Track Curator has to undergo retraining. The Cadet Steward behind the boxes survives with a warning. The Chief Steward gets away scot free. And Jimbob walks away […]

Crime Drugs in Racing

Ellmer Hasn’t Hoofed It – His Owner and Trainer are Just Otherwise Detained – But Where the Hell Has Coward Kenny Disappeared To?

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I guess it is no surprise to learn that Ellmer’s Hoofing It has been scratched from race 4 at Globe Derby tonight. Ellmer’s owner and trainer have a bit on their plate at the moment, although not much in their bowl. Dennis that is scratched from Race 5’s connections are in the same boat. Oh, […]

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