Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Four months ago we framed a betting market on when Racing Victoria CEO Andrew Jones would be sacked. The 100-1 we bet about it being in 2024 shows exactly why we shouldn’t be bookies. The coming year for Jones sacking is now the red hot $1.10 favourite in the betting market, after the owners association […]
Can it be that it was all so simple then? Or has time re-written every line? If we had the chance to do it all again Tell me, would we? Could we? Memories May be beautiful and yet What’s too painful to remember We simply to choose to forget Barbara Streisand Melbourne Cup-winning horse trainer […]
Weir would have to be DQed or warned off wouldn’t he? Who hasn’t been previously for using a jigger? Wallers description of Weir as “addicted to winning” is quite telling but not in the acceptable sense that Waller meant. Everyone enjoys a win, but win too frequently and celebrate too much and the dopamine reward […]
As we have learned from the experiences over the ditch at Wagga and in Queensland, it takes at least two years to build a new harness racing track and training facility, so now that the Auckland Trotting Club has received the down payment from the Chinese property developer for its training complex at Franklin Park, […]
“Look there are obviously things that have been done that I wouldn’t agree with and I don’t know the full circumstances, but I’m not going to sit in judgment like others who want to hang him (Weir) out for life” – Jamie Lovett, Australian Bloodstock “He took it too far, he was obsessed with winning […]
Isn’t it perfect to have Len ‘Bubbles’ Oughten in place as the 2nd-in-charge of a trot club that has just received an $8.5 million down payment on its only training facility, the one that it sold at 2020 prices on a pay when you can raise the cash in 2024 deal? This is he, who […]
Molly Bloom – an exciting three-year-old filly trained by Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott – held off second favourite Mary Shan to score by a nose https://www.racenet.com.au/news/blake-shinn-scores-group-2-success-aboard-molly-bloom-opie-bosson-rides-five-winners-including-group-1-at-pukekohe-on-boxing-day-20231226 This is what Racenet reported about the finish of the Eight Carat Classic at Pukekohoe Park yesterday. It must have been Jimmy Durante or Pinocchio’s nose. Have you ever seen […]
Tabcorp are not doing the bookmaking sector a whole lot of favours by their corporate behaviour at present are they? I mean here you have an industry under pressure from all sides, one that is facing a growing groundswell of parliamentary and public pressure to ban gambling advertising entirely, a tide of opinion that is […]
Last night at Dubbo the 3-year-old pacer Our Sailor provided a very special Boxing Day present to it’s connections and to those who backed it from double figure odds into $5.50 – presumably one and the same – when it won the 4th race on the card from the breeze. It was a very clever […]
The news that leading thoroughbred trainer Ciaron Maher and his stable manager Ben Connolly have been hit with charges by Racing Victoria for allegedly allegedly concealing conman Peter Foster’s ownership of a number of racehorses, including top class mare Azkadelia, comes as no surprise to this little brown duck, and I will go out on […]
