Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I was saddened to hear about the passing last on Sunday of Gail Baulch, who along with her husband Tony used to run the Wavell Heights, Nundah, Chermside Village, and New Farm TAB’s. I didn’t know Gail other than to bet with and say g’day to when I passed her in the street, but she […]
Once upon a time Doomben was one of the best wet weather tracks in Australia. It used to dry quickly and be raceable when other tracks couldn’t, and only sustained heavy rainfall over consecutive days would see a meeting called off. These days however it is nothing but a slush pit. On Saturday Eagle Farm, […]
Remember we told you last week about the $101 into $2.90 plunge landed at Globe Derby on a Phil Westbury trained pacer? Well here’s two in a week. On Saturday night a horse named Run For Stikka was backed from $61 into $19 to win and land another big plunge. Run For Stikka, like Westbury’s […]
Readers will be aware that we have been writing for some time about a certain Brisbane racing official who has been charged with extremely serious criminal offences, and questioning why this man has been allowed to remain in his high-profile position while the charges are working their way through the courts. Well it appears that […]
Orenthal James Simspon Better known as OJ, or the Juice, Simpson the world’s most famous American Footballer of his generation, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame. In 1995 Simpson was acquitted of the double murder of his former wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman, but 2 years later he was found culpable […]
Click on the story to enlarge and read. The Independent, UK: 24 October 1987
A rich woman who lives in a mansion by Sunny Coast sea’s marriage was breaking down. She wasn’t coping well with it. The woman hit the grog hard. When she was drunk – which was often – she became morose and depressed, and told family and friends that she was going to kill herself. One […]
Neville Playingfield is the most accurate trop tipster in New Zealand, a man so deadly that his best bets rarely ever lose, which is why we call him the Guru. I’d love to say he spent 80 hours a week poring over the form to find us one or two a week that will put […]
