Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Prizemoney Increase Last 5 Years – (including breeders bonuses and payments) QLD – 65.5% NSW – 9.0% VIC – 8.4% Prizemoney as Share of Revenue QLD – 82.1% NSW – 49.2% VIC – 46.0% Profit/Loss 2021/2022 Financial Year NSW – $15.7 million VIC – $2.9 million QLD – ($7.3 million) loss See these figures above? […]
Editor’s Side Note I will tell you something else about Kevin Seymour too. He’s a very good friend if you are in the team and stay loyal, and indifferent and no problem if like me you are not (in the team that is, not disloyal). But if you do the wrong thing by him, and […]
On Wednesday CEO Brendan Parnell’s team at Racing Queensland decided in their infinite wisdom to transfer Sunday’s scheduled turf meeting at the Sunshine Coast to the poly track, in a single second slashing the already decimated by corporate bookie industrial action wagering turnover on the meeting in half. The reason given was that after an […]
Every story on this website today and always about my mad punting mates are true. Believe it or not. Life on the punt. Who the hell would want it any other way?
We told you last week about the outstanding run of footy multi form being exhibited by Big Red right now, after he landed his seventh five-legger on the bounce, and his second new car in 2 months with it. This week he looked to extend to the streak to 8. They say down Sydney way […]
Well my mate Marvellous Mervyn is a very well known and highly successful harness and race horse owner who presently has a champion of one code and a prospective champion in another in his stable, and his spring carnival this year is looking good, most promising indeed. This bloke is a lovely chap and an […]
Most readers are by now familiar with the world famous film The Yoyo, an autobiographical thriller about life on the punt, written, directed by and starring Melbourne Mick. Mick is the world’s second worst punter (behind me). Unlike Marvellous Merv he can tip a winner – in fact sometimes he even tips seven or eight […]
Errata means error. The Crown Prosecutor themselves raised the issue with the Judge as to what to about them. It was agreed that minor errors – spelling errors, etc like the example that the prosecutor gave below – would be simply corrected. CROWN PROSECUTOR: Sometimes when ‑ I’ve already failed at least once to not […]
The Crown alleges that on or about 8 January 1982 the accused, alone or with the involvement of another person or persons, murdered Lynette Dawson. Then, or later, the accused possibly with assistance disposed of her body at an unknown location. The Crown puts its case against the accused that he was motivated to kill his […]
Adrian Layt is a Queensland based jockey whose official riding weight is registered as 56.5kg. Layt hasn’t ridden under 55kg (plus 1kg gear allowance) for donkey’s years. Yesterday at Townsville he was permitted to ride a horse in race 4 named Riverside Special. It was weighted at 54kg. A. Layt was never a hope of […]
