Mark Yole nails another four

Hot on the heels of recording his first winning quartet as a reinsman on Sunday night in Hobart Mark Yole captured yet another four winners in Launceston just five days later.

The Perth trainer-driver described his haul in Hobart as a great thrill. He must have enjoyed the experience because he wasted no time repeating the dose on the Launceston Pacing Club eight-event card on Friday night.

Punters sent Mark’s first drive Mornings out a $1.30 favourite in the first race on the programme, but it wasn’t to be all plain sailing for the Ben Yole prepared three-year-old filly as  alarm bells rang out for those who had taken the short odds when stewards ordered a pre-race veterinary examantion after an incident in the parade area.

“As she came into the parade yard she reared up and just grazed the fence so we asked the vet to take a look because we didn’t want to take any chances with her but she was fine,” said a relieved Mark.

“There were no concerns out on the track, she has been a little bit of a surprise package, her form on the mainland was solid but Ben’s (Yole) made a few changes to her gear and she has gone to another level.”

The Greg Scott owned and trained Abs Boy (pictured) was sensationally backed from $41 on the Ubet Fixed-Odds into $9.50 before becoming Mark’s second success of the night in race two.

“I couldn’t have asked for a better cart into the race to the home turn and he let down beautifully in the straight and then Im Barney Rubble made it two wins for the week in the Claimer,” said the leading drivers premiership reinsman.

“He ran in nicely from the three wide and three back trail and when I capped on him he responded like a real Free-For-All campaigner, blowing away as he did in Hobart on Sunda. He’s racing again in Launceston on Wednesday night and no doubt is a huge chance of notching up a hat-trick.”

Ten Caisses raced into racing history on 1 July becoming the first winner of a trotting race for almost 100 years in Tasmania for trainer Adam Emery and brought up it’s second win in the state coming off the 10-metre handicap on Friday in the Discretionary.

“With Nat (Emery) away I’m very thankful to Adam for giving me the opportunity to handle Ten Caisses. He gave me an armchair drive and still had plenty up his sleeve at the finish,” said Mark.

“The idea was to make the backmarkers work hard to make up their ground, so we went out fast, slackened off in the middle stages and then finished strongly, the plan worked a treat and he felt good down to the line, there are more wins in store for him.”

Shane Yates