Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The people in charge of running the QLD racing industry must be either masochists who enjoy feeling pain, or sadists who enjoy inflicting it on others, for what other reason could there be for some of the gallops programming decisions over the weekend? Do these people even know the geography of QLD, or understand the […]
Mr H is your classic problem gambler. A pulsie, a desperate, and an addict. I know heaps of them. Many of by best mates are. It’s not a knock. These otherwise good Australians are just sick, and hate and love it in equal parts, but no matter what they do, or how long they stay […]
No matter how long you have been involved in racing, there are still things you learn every day. The case of the two late scratchings in the first race at the Sunshine Coast yesterday is one of them. I don’t recall having ever seen anything like this before. Two runners were scratched late. The QOP […]
See the advertisements above and below that popped up on my Facebook feed today? These ads are illegal in every State of Australia. Offenders can be prosecuted. They should be too, for these are absolutely deliberate breaches of the law. Note that neither advertisement offering the inducements for punter to open an account has a […]
Now we don’t at all agree with most of David Pocock’s virulently anti-gambling stance, but in the case he is talking about in the video below we absolutely do. A punter with a gambling problem self-excludes from Ultra Bet. So what does Ultra Bet do? They send him an email urging him to come back […]
The race for the all-time trainers record is on as the Steve and Amanda Telfer partnership seek to break Roy and Barry Purdon’s 31-year long record of 168 winners in a season. With three months of the season still left to run the Telfers have racked up 137 wins from 642 starters at a strike […]
Betmakers is a company that you would think would make money but it never does, this year recording yet another loss of $26.4 million to add to the $38.7 million it lost last year, and the $38.8 million it lost the year before that, and the $89.2 million the year before that, and the $17.5 […]
We discussed the head to head betting rules of different bookmakers in an earlier article, but the real big question is this. Is head to head betting on Victorian races actually legal? The types of bets that can be placed on Victorian races are prescribed in the Club Bookmakers License Rules and in the Standard […]
We’ve noticed a number of people posting on social media recently their complains about having placed a ‘winning’ Head to Head bet on a horse race and not being paid. In each case the horse they backed finished well back in the field but beat the horse that they had backed it to beat home. […]
One of the great problems with corporate bookmaker licensing around Australia is that the bookies are allowed by the regulators to apply their own unique scale of deductions in the cases of a late scratching/s. This is unnecessary and unfair to punters – there should be a single national scale of deductions that is mandatory […]
