Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Riverina based trot trainer Phillip Martin has been disqualified for 9 years after one of his horses threw a positive swab to the powerful anaesthetic 3-hydroxybupivacaine after a recent win at Albury. Mr Martin is obviously a slow learner. It was his sixth positive swab. If brains were dollars some people would be bankrupt. Phillip Martin would […]
One of punters biggest bugbears is the scale of deductions for scratchings. Different wagering service provider (WSP – once upon a time we used to call them bookies) apply different deductions when a horse is late scratched, with the number of cents in the dollar taken from the face value of tickets seemingly left to […]
Racehorse registrations Australia Ten years ago there were 11 460 thoroughbred foals registered across Australia. Today there are 10 644 That’s a 7.1 decrease across the nation in just a decade. The decline would been much more pronounced had Victoria not increased its breeding numbers by 3.8%. Here are the reductions and increases in the […]
I almost fell off my chair yesterday morning after seeing that the bookies were betting $2.55 about Novak Djokovic beating Carlos Alcaraz. It was the overlay of the century The Joker has an outstanding record un hard courts, having won 71 of his 99 titles on the surfaces. Coming into last night’s match Djokovic boasted […]
According to Racing NSW’s Strategic Plan owning a racehorse trained in the city costs $70 000 a year, a figure that I know from having owned horses myself to be pretty much right. That’s as much as the average Australian earns, with the Bureau of Statistics revealing that the median pre-tax wage for workers is […]
Whip use in all equine sports continues to be a hot topic for regulators and welfare advocates. Researchers in Sweden wondered whether the use of the whip in harness racing there actually accomplishes part of its purpose in encouraging horses to run faster. In a study published this month in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Animal […]
Top law firm Maurice Blackburn is suing Sportbet in class action being taken against the leading bookmaker by punters who placed allegedly unlawful live bets on sport with the firm using ‘fast codes’ it supplied to customers. You can bet live in the run on races, gallops and trots in Australia, but you can’t bet […]
It was interesting to hear the caller at Redcliffe last night comment how unusual it is to see a 10-year-old mare like Lara Bay still racing at her age, when most of her generation of the fillies have long retired to the breeding barn. Why would you retire a healthy mare like Lara Bay, who […]
The simple answer to this bloke’s question is that life’s not fair, and bookies don’t have to bet reasonable prices. They only have to bet what the market will bear, and even then they don’t have to if they don’t want to. It’s called the free market. People sell at a price, and people buy. […]
So we never do learn whether Seaton Grima’s check on Cya Art in the Tamworth Cup was by accident or design. The Stewards don’t tell us. All they say is that Super Seaton pleaded guilty to a charge directing his drive Master Catch outwards when insufficiently clear of Cya Art, resulting in Cya Art having […]
