TasRacing again moves to ban Ben Yole and others from racetracks after Supreme Court clears the way

Fresh off a Supreme Court Wind has racing chief executive Andrew Jenkins ready for round two of his fight with the state’s biggest harness stable. We have issued show cause notices and the board will consider submissions under show cause should they be received. Ben Y’all, Tim Yoel, Mitch and Nathan Ford have one week to argue why they shouldn’t be issued fresh warning off notices by Tasmania Racing. If no submission is received, it would mean the quartet would not be able to participate in racing in Tasmania as a licensed trainer or person. The four were named in the Murahi report that investigated allegations of race fixing and animal welfare concerns. A previous attempt by Tasmania Racing to warn them off was overturned by the Tasmanian Racing Appeals Board, but that’s now been quashed by the Supreme Court. In a statement where he appointed Racing Minister Jane Howlett said she’d sought an explanation from Tasmania Racing about the situation and that action needed to be taken urgently. But the Government’s own Office of Racing Integrity has so far refused to stand down the four participants. Despite having the power to do so, leaving Tasmania Racing to go it alone, TAS Racing is standing up today to do what the Office of Racing Integrity and the Minister for Racing will not do and is to finally stamp them out of this industry. It is unfortunate. That both the Government and the Office of Racing Integrity are not backing up to as Racing here and in terms of strengthening the Integrity regulations when it comes to the racing industry. Tasmania Racing is also concerned about the ease in which Mr. Old has been able to transfer the ownership of some of his horses into his father’s name and it’s written to the Office of Racing Integrity seeking clarity. I won’t provide any further further comment, but we did correspond with the director stating our view. Tasmania Racing has also tightened rules around the amount of runners a single trainer can field in a race if no response to show cause notices are received by late Thursday. Tasmania racing will be free to effectively ban those implicated in the Murrahi report.