Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
2. POLICY 2.1. Except as otherwise provided for by this Policy, horses which are trained by or under the effective control of a trainer will not be selected to comprise more than fifty percent (50%) of the starters in any race field. 2.1.1 Where the total available nominations, and therefore race field size, is an […]
A picture tells a thousand words. Here they are above.
Here is another picture telling a thousand words. Pointsbet and Betr are different entities. They have however historically been associated. What the hell is going on here? We will run you through you some possible scenarios in the morning.
Rumours are swirling around the racing industry that the much vaunted ‘new major player’ on the Australian bookmaking scene Betr is in more trouble than Flash Gordon. Betr was launched only 6 months ago to huge fanfare and publicity on the back of it’s ill-thought out improperly framed $101 odds betting offer to punters on […]
Sometimes I look around and shake my head and wonder if Richard Callander and I are living in the same world. Today is one of them. Richie wrote what you see above in his Racenet column this week. It is an absolute load of piffle, ridiculous nonsense, and tripe. His argument appears to be that […]
There were 10 races on the card at Menangle yesterday. One horse was pre-race swabbed in each. They used to swab two, but I guess someone has realised that the way HRNSW go about the swabbing business that was an absolute waste of time and money and have cut it in half. Given the events […]
Race 1 – BURWOOD STUD 2YO MAIDEN PACE 1660M MS Whata Legacy (Adam Richardson) permission was given for the gelding to race in a shadow roll as it had jumped a shadow in the preliminary. The gelding subsequently jumped a shadow in the race resulting in it no competitive part. Stewards ordered that Whata Legacy complete […]
As predicted, everyone is blowing up about the ridiculous decision to partially redraw the barriers for the Quokka after the world class stuff up by RWWA yesterday morning. This is what we said. The partial decision decision was always going to be fraught with problems. Yes it was a no win situation whatever they did, […]
In the stuff up of all stuff ups, betting on Saturday’s new $4 million WA slot race the Quokka was this afternoon suspended pending an inquiry into irregularities with the barrier draw. It turns out what happened is that midway through the draw Uncommon James barrier was by mistake called out as Massimo’s, and all […]
We’ve received correspondence strongly suggesting that our story yesterday about Matthew Anderson being over in New Jersey working for harness racing stable was wrong. We are still attempting to follow the issue up, but if our story was an error we apologise in advance, not that we are conceding that fact yet. In the course […]
