MEDIA RELEASE MONDAY 3rd FEBRUARY 2025
Now that the Independent Stewards Panel (ISP) has disqualified Ben and Tim Yole from racing for three years on severe cruelty charges, the safety of the horses must be ensured by shutting down their operation for good and all horses permanently rehomed.
While the Tasmanian ISP has decided to disqualify harness trainer Ben Yole and Tim Yole for three years on the grounds of systematic, serious mistreatment of horses, there is no guarantee that the Yoles won’t be able to continue their malicious conduct by transferring ownership of their horses to other family members or mainland associates as has previously been the case.
“If any justice is to be achieved for the hundreds of horses who have endured the most unimaginable cruelty in the hands of Ben Yole for years on end, his entire stable must be shut down and all his horses rehomed and ensured a lifelong safe retirement,” said Helle Erhardsen, General Manager for Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses.
“The public needs assurance that all Yole horses will be rehabilitated and retired into safe homes and not as we have previously seen, be passed on to members of the greyhound industry to be killed for dog meat,” Miss Erhardsen said.
The cost of rehabilitation and rehoming of the horses should be paid by Ben Yole and carried out with full public transparency by Tasracing.
“The Yoles have been making fools of Tasracing for years by exposing how incompetent they are in stopping the systematic cruelty and race fixing. It must be in Tasracing’s interest too to have this disgraceful, corrupt operation shut down for good.”
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Hi I hope that this family of horse abusers will be permanently shud down, and they will be held accountable in court for the crimes. Also that the racing industry will make sure this doesn’t ever happen again.
Cruelty must be punished by the only way that hurst these people, MONEY strip them of all their assets too.