A Few Random Questions About the Trots
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 […]
If This is How They Race in South Australia, Then Turn Off the Lights and Lock the Doors Now
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 […]
Is Anyone Surprised That Ben Yole’s Favourite Drink is a Bicarb Shake?
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 […]
The Tasmanian Koala – Part 1 – Why
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 […]
The Mystery of SGF-1000, at Center of Indictments – Drug is Manufactured and Distributed by Two Companies in Nicholasville, Kentucky (First Published 24 November 2020)
The Tassie Stewards Retrospectively Skew the Numbers – The Fix is In – But Chief Steward Shinn Can Fix It – All He Needs to Do is Tell Us Where All the Vanished Ben Yole Barn Horses Have Gone
Hang on! Yesterday we wrote a story telling you how the Tasracing integrity officials had violated their own animal welfare policy by allowing a Ben Yole trained pacer named Mach Charm to race 6 times in 22 days when the maximum number of starts allowed in a month is five. What the Tasmanian Steward’s had […]
The Perfect Job For Robbie or Sally Snow – Warning Off a Problem? – No Worries, Steve Fletcher’s Boy Can Fix It!
This job currently available at Racing NSW would be absolutely ideal for Sean Bartholomew or Rob Waterhouse, but for two things. One is that they both might struggle a little to pass the probity check, although if former Steve Fletcher commission agent Wade Birch can, then it can’t me too difficult after all. The second […]
The Dogs, The Dogs – How One Harness Racing Stable in Tasmania Has Found the Final Solution to the Problem of Slow Pacers
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 […]
The Smell of the Carcass of a Rancid Whale
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 […]