The Bookmakers VIP Party Beside the Canal With the Coke, The Lawyer, the Free Bet Inducements, the Sharks and Me – A Story in Pictures – Sshhh, Don’t Tell Maggie or the Supermodel
It’s Only a Bloody Shark Billy – There Are Plenty of Them Out There – Just Ask the Boys From Pointsbet (First Published 13 February 2020)
Well sportsfans, it seems that poor old Billy Moore is deathly afraid of sharks, which is probably why he never played for Cronulla. What the hell is wrong with the so-called Origin hard man though? My old mate Bunger Johnson, who trained Flashing Red to win a million Group 1’s, is about 103 years old […]
The Un-Living Dead
A few readers have questioned our recent story in which we told you that the QLD Pacing Derby runner-up Maxo Mighty had died at the age of just three. It’s not that these readers are unbelievers, just that Maxo Mighty is still shown on the Harness Racing Records as dead, which means that either: (a) […]
What Luke Bateman Told the Senate Inquiry About the Bookies VIP Party by the Canal and the Coke is 100 Percent True – Trust Me I Know – And Have a Lawyer as My Witness
What former Canberra A-Grade footballer Luke Bateman told the Senate inquiry into gambling earlier this week is 100 percent true, and I can swear to it. How do I know? Because I was there at the party on the Gold Coast canal snorting coke with them! 100% true. My mate The Eagle – who is […]
The Dangers of One Trainer Dominating the Numbers at Bush Meetings
We have written on many occasions about the long-term dangers posed to racing in QLD’s country north-west by one trainer – Tanya Parry – holding such a numerical dominance in racing in the region by virtue of the sheer number of tried, failed and recycled horses she accumulates cheaply from all over the place without […]
Have Saddle Will Travel – The Motto of Top Flight Jockey D. Moor
The 7-day flight path of jockey Daniel Moor JB Cummings famously used to have a rule that his stayers had to cover 10 000 meters in their lead up runs to get them fit and ready to win a Melbourne Cup. It worked. Bart won 13 of them. Based on the famous Cummings training method […]
Punters Challenge
How do you put a tote bet on this race 14 at the Q1 Lakeside dogs yesterday? Can anyone see a meeting code F on the ticket? If so, can we borrow your glasses?
This Conference is a Farce
The upcoming so-called Backing The Punt Conference, which in reality is little more than a corporate bookmaker funded celebration of online celebration of online satchel swingers making a motza by stripping punters of their cash, features a session called The Punters Voice: What’s the Future of Wagering? It is nothing more than a joke, because […]
Group 1 Gav Finally Gets What He Deserves
Not a ‘desirable’ person: This ex-jockey is now banned from setting foot on a racecourse Story by Danny Russell: The Age https://www.theage.com.au/sport/racing/not-a-desirable-person-this-ex-jockey-is-now-banned-from-setting-foot-on-a-racecourse-20260804-p60l6j.html More than 30 years have passed since flamboyant jockey Gavin Eades surfed one of racing’s great highs, punching the air in sheer joy after he was declared the winner of the 1994 Doncaster […]
The Goose That Helped Kill the Golden Egg Exits the Building
Just weeks after the highly regarded Kiwi business leader Anna Flynn’s appointment as Commercial Director of Harness Racing New Zealand, the organisation’s ‘Strategic Racing Advisor’ John Mooney has, like Elvis, left the building, and good riddance many participants in the industry are saying. Mooney – a one time lawyer, bankrupt, and purported defaulter on his […]