Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Warren Woodcock, who died last year, was a bookmaker well ahead of his time. He was an interesting character too, but that is another story. Woody was on to the financial benefits of providing punters with incentives more than a decade before the corporates emerged and started deluging punters with treats, and may even be […]
We copped a bit of flack from racing people when we broke the story about Tommy Berry’s further undisclosed dealings with the Butcher (punter Zaid Miller), but we thought it was something that had to be told, because it involved things that affect punters, and that is who we write for here and in whose […]
Yesterday we wrote a story about a young QRIC official Sam Nosworthy, and it was pretty ordinary of us. We ap0logise to Mr Nosworthy and have taken the story down. The story was intended to be about broader problems within the QLD Stewarding ranks, but we overstepped the mark in a way that was not […]
The horse in the picture is Queen of Sword. By Bettors Delight out of Queen Camille. It is being trained by Regan Todd at the Lavros Lodge complex the Canary tells the good folk who joined his 2yo syndicate, and they believe him because they are getting bills for it, and have pre-paid them in […]
Watch the horse drawn drawn the inside of the back row. Do you reckon he might have breached the rules? Yeah me too. Bernie Hewitt got a $200 fine for his deliberate rule breach. He got away with murder.
In one of the most inane announcements ever made, Victorian Jockeys Association union boss Matt Hyland has declared that jockeys do not want 10 race cards in the city on a Saturday. The hoops are already burned out by the overly onerous Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday, Sunday schedule says Hyland, and a 10 race […]
There is a rumor floating around that says that everyone’s favorite water thief and fallen star witness in spurious court cases brought against me, Mr Dean Baring, has been ejected from the APG jet plane without a parachute. This scandalous gossip has it that the APG have finally woken up in the morning and noticed […]
World Boxing Hall of Famer and World Good Bloke – Azumah Nelson and A. Peacock Under the Mirabeau bridge flows the Seine And our loves Must I remember them Joy always followed pain The night falls and the hours ring The days go away I remain Hand in hand let us stay face to face […]
Last year the New Zealand government passed an act of parliament called the Retail Payment System Act. https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/2022/0021/latest/whole.html The purpose of the act – which is a law – was to stop unscrupulous traders from charging extortionate merchant fees to their customers that pay by credit card. It put a cap on the allowable fees […]
As we have said time and time again, Andrew ‘The Canary’ Fitzgerald is the dodgiest syndicator in New Zealand. Calling him a syndicator is even a stretch, because his Off N Racing outfit is not registered as one and doesn’t comply with either the financial or racing rules and laws, despite purporting to. Complaints about […]
