Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
In October 2022 Tabcorp – in a move intended to increase its currently miserable penetration in the under 35’s punting demographic – paid $32.8 million to buy 20% of the privately owned fantasy sports/social betting company Dabble, valuing that company as worth $164 million. Since then it has paid an additional $2.8 million to increase […]
Last night’s heats of the 3yo Vicbred Super Series at Kilmore shone a spotlight on everything that is wrong with Victorian harness racing. Here are the two major areas of concern. Unaffordability of the Series There were eight heats run, four for the males and four for the females. They carried total prizemoney of $10 […]
As you can see Tasracing has given gallops trainer Tanya Hanson warm plaudits and a fond farewell upon her retirement from the racing industry, with the principal racing authority’s tribute to her published on its website. That says everything you need to know about the regulators of the sport in the Apple Isle, and their […]
PETER V’LANDYS: Absolutely. My evidence today will absolutely destroy what they’ve written in that letter anyway because none of it is true. The other thing that was said in Parliament, which is completely false, is that I interfere in stewards’ inquiries. In the 20 years I have been at Racing NSW I have not interfered—and […]
Bluebet have adopted the Betr brand name for their newly merged business, but I reckon they have made a mistake. A far more fitting name would be Unders. What else do you call a bookie that bets $1.20 about Kyle Feldt scoring a try anytime in the Storm v Cowboys game tonight, when other bookies […]
Hundreds of thousands of dollars allegedly went missing from one of NSW’s most successful country race clubs and it only narrowly avoided going under after Racing NSW granted it the benefit of the doubt. The Sunday Telegraph can reveal the mysterious case of the missing cash, which an auditor suggested was misappropriation but the club […]
Picture taken at the Gold Coast this morning Racing on the Gold Coast turf track takes its first step toward resumption this morning with the first trials being held back on the grass. Or they are supposed to be anyway. But the fog has rolled in like its the moors in England. Since when does […]
Which commission agent with a reputation for being more gabby than a fishmonger’s wife went seeking tips from trainers of runners in the Cairns Cup, only to be told by one that their horse was sore and the other that their bloods weren’t right? Is it true that the lippy one then relayed the tip […]
Although no-one from the Auckland Trotting Club is coming out and admitting it to participants and the public, our inside mail is the Chinese property developer that has signed contracts to purchase the training center at Pukekohe won’t be paying for it in a lump sum later this year as we have all been lead […]
See that smallish chap in the picture working behind the barriers at the Home Hill races yesterday? That’s jockey Scott Sheargold. He had three rides earlier in the meeting, then swapped out of silks and into civvies and took up duties as a barrier attendant for the rest of the day. Where else in the […]
