Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The members of the Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission are: Alastair Shields (chair) Cindy Bravos (deputy chair) Susan Kirkman (member) Scott Perrin (member) Rachael Shanahan (member) Ian Curnow (member). Below are the commission 2024 meeting dates: Thursday 1 February Thursday 7 March Thursday 4 April Thursday 2 May Thursday 6 June Thursday 4 July […]
One of punters biggest bugbears is the scale of deductions for scratchings. Different wagering service provider (WSP – once upon a time we used to call them bookies) apply different deductions when a horse is late scratched, with the number of cents in the dollar taken from the face value of tickets seemingly left to […]
QLD jockey Corey Bayliss must have been kissed by a fairy. Last week Masa Abe was disqualified for 16-month after placing 50 bets on gall0ps races in breach of rule 115(a). It was Abe’s first offence. No early remission of any part of the disqualification was extended to him. Corey Bayliss was today found of […]
The NZ Racing Minister has announced that amendments to the Racing Act will be introduced to parliament this week to “enhance the long-term sustainability of New Zealand’s racing industry by making TAB NZ New Zealand’s sole provider for sports and race betting both on land and online”. “Growing competition from offshore online betting operators poses […]
Racing Minister Winston Peters has announced the introduction of legislation to amend the Racing Industry Act 2020 which will extend TAB NZ’s current land-based monopoly for sports and racing betting to online. The Racing Industry Act established TAB NZ for the purposes of funding the racing industry. It provides 90 percent of the racing industry’s […]
Hot on the heels of a major downturn in Australian wagering turnover on the gallops comes a double digit plunge in the amount bet on the racing code in the US. It looks like its a global post-pandemic trend. This report by Ray Paulick. Wagering on U.S. Thoroughbred horse racing dropped sharply in September, declining […]
Bookies have a long way to travel to Betoota, and expenses are high. But they’re no cheaper for punters either, and they don’t have the benefit of claiming the exes as business deductions on their tax. So there is no excuse for the bookmakers at Betoota to be setting their markets at 175% like they […]
Bluebet have adopted the Betr brand name for their newly merged business, but I reckon they have made a mistake. A far more fitting name would be Unders. What else do you call a bookie that bets $1.20 about Kyle Feldt scoring a try anytime in the Storm v Cowboys game tonight, when other bookies […]
David ‘Layoff’ McLauchlan is the Melbourne rails bookie who did a stack betting against the credit punter David Ng and then unsuccessfully taking him to court trying to get Ng to pay his tick. In the process McLauchlan set a losing precedent that left both himself and other bookies across Victoria open to prosecution for […]
