Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Throughout 1997 a shadow loomed over Hong Kong. After 156 years of colonial rule, the British were set to hand the territory back to China on July 1. There were news reports of Chinese troops massed at the border, and many islanders feared it would be the end of Hong Kong’s freewheeling capitalism. China tried […]
The story at the top is from 1996. It’s pretty sad isn’t it? Who the hell steals their disabled son’s future so they can gamble? What sort of mother does such a thing? A wicked, wicked woman, that’s who. Nah. Not really. An addict does. Are they one and the same? An addict and wicked […]
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 […]
It doesn’t look like well greyhound man Mark Stollery is too happy with the corporate bookie UpCoz. I don’t know what the background is, but clearly there is a dispute going on about them not accepting bets with the money he deposited in his account with the outfit, and them refusing to refund his cash. […]
Have you read Adman Hamilton’s latest polemic on the state of harness racing, and how to fix it? Adman says that we need to modernize the sport by turning it in to Trot Rod city. Trot races take too long he reckons. Back in the day a study showed that 30% of air time on […]
Archie That study you quoted is ancient history. There’s one reason problem gamblers are problem gamblers and it’s the same for every type of addiction, sex, drugs alcohol rock ‘n’ roll, and that’s the pleasure pain balance in the mesolimbic dopamine pathway. You can listen about it here. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p3JLaF_4Tz8 Anna Lembke, Psychiatrist and Chief of […]
Abstract Physiological arousal is purportedly a key determinant in the development and maintenance of gambling behaviors, with problem gambling conceptualized in terms of abnormal autonomic responses. Theoretical conceptualizations of problem gambling are discordant regarding the nature of deficit in this disorder; some accounts posit that problem gamblers are hypersensitive to reward, and others that they […]
Tony Obst, Dolphins legend No matter what any of us think, the truth is that modern racing is all about wagering turnover. The equation is simple. The more you get in through gambling, the more you can pay in prizemoney and improvements to the sport. Only a blind bugger can’t see that. So why is […]
It tells you a lot about Australia’s historic obsession with horse racing and betting that the man who invented the totalisator, George Julius, was knighted for his work. The complex machine, initially designed to count votes, found flight as an on-course method of calculating dividends for horse racing and having started out in New Zealand […]
