Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Up until now a casino operator in Florida – and indeed in many other States of America, although not all – had to put on live racing in order to qualify for a license to operate poker (slot) machines in their establishment. Poker machine licenses are equivalent to a license to print money, so Isle […]
Sometimes race stewards make decisions that leave you scratching your head and wondering if what you just saw and read with the same pair of eyes is real, or whether you are in fact walking around in some sort of parallel world hallucinating. Take this stewards report of race 3 at the Geelong trots on […]
Last year’s South Australian jockey of the year Todd Pannell had an Australia Day to remember at Murray Bridge this afternoon, booting home four of the seven winners to score more than half the card. The hoop’s winners weren’t at long prices – $2.80, $1.60, $3.10, and $3.10 – but if you’d combined them in […]
Hanging Rock is one of the most picturesque race tracks in Australia. It is also the scene of one of the most disturbing fictional events in our nation’s literary history, the disappearance of a group of schoolgirls and their teacher while out on a summer’s picnic on Valentine’s Day. Most quaddie punters at the Rock […]
Loui had raced 18 times prior to October. It had won twice. The time it ran in that win was 1.57.2. This horse had always been trained by Ross Adams, and still is. Adams had driven it in it’s every start too. But 6 weeks ago all of a sudden first David Morris, and then […]
I’m always travelin’ And I love bein’ free So I keep leavin’ the sun and the sea But my heart lies waiting over the foam I still call Australia home. The picture you see is from Liza Minelli and Peter Allen’s wedding album. That boy Pete’s leering at carried the ring. No doubt Mr Allen […]
Prior to arriving in Victoria, Spirit Of St Louis had won five of his 14 Aussie starts including victories in Queensland’s 4YO Championship and a heat of the Inter Dominion series. But nothing he’d achieved before the Bendigo Cup could have helped predict what’s transpired over the past 17 days. These three regional features staged […]
Well you can either piss in the tent or piss outside. If time we pissed within. In order to qualify for a spot on the Council we need five venerable referees. Please email peterprofitracing@gmail.com to let us know you are up for it. ‘Holler4A’ Marshall Dobson has already cosmically signalled his intent. We need four […]
When he hold me now I’m pretending I feel like I’m frozen inside And behind my eyes, my daily disguise Everything’s turning to white The typist in the police interview with convicted Whiskey Au Go Go killer James Finch was a young police officer named Ronald Joseph Redmond. Redmond was a strange recruit to the […]
Much has been about Shirley Brifman, and most who read crime know the story. Shirley was poor girl from the Atherton Tablelands who wanted to see the world. Her world started in Cairns, stretched to Brisbane and then on to the bright lights of Kings Cross, before it ended age 36, dead on the floor […]
