Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The former King of the Brisbane rails ring turned professional trot punter Lindsay Gallaher has been banned from the birdcage by QRIC Stewards. Gallagher – who many believe is the ringleader of a cartel of trickiness at the trots – has been regularly seen in the authorised persons only area at both Albion Park and […]
This is the message that came up when we tried to access Sportsbet last night. Our VPN wasn’t turned on. Location settings were enabled. I guess the Federal Government must have just banned gambling in Port Douglas. My wife reckons it will save us a fortune. Oh she of little faith.
Here’s Tabcorp Chief Executive Gillon McLachlan at today’s Hobart Cup. It’s nice of him to give the opposition a free kick. The Lads say good on you Gil.
The Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission is established by the Racing and Wagering Act (NT) 2024. Its purposes are to: promote probity, integrity and fairness in the racing and wagering industries and among its participants; establish a fair and efficient system of governance over the racing and wagering industries protect the welfare of animals […]
1. A v BETCHA Lodged 15/11/22 Decided 26/11/24 Time Taken: 2 YEARS 2. E v ENTAIN Lodged 15/7/20 Decided 22/11/24 Time Taken: 4 YEARS 4 MONTHS 3. F v PLAYUP Lodged 29/7/22 Determined 24/10/24 Time Taken: 2 YEARS 3 MONTHS 4. L v ENTAIN Lodged 3/1/23 Determined 22/10/24 Time Taken: 2 YEARS 9 MONTHS 5. […]
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 […]
In the wake of our story yesterday about the collapse of BudgetBet and the need for better protection of punters funds we were sent this. It’s a disclaimer that the online bookmaker BetM includes in its Terms and Conditions. They couldn’t be plainer about it if they tried. Should BetM be unable to meet its […]
Three months ago we raised concerns on this website about the solvency of online bookmaker BudgetBet, and asked questions about how the money in punters betting account would be protected and by whom. They were valid questions as we are all now finding out in the wake of BudgetBet’s collapse, leaving customers stranded with their […]
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 […]
I almost fell off my chair yesterday morning after seeing that the bookies were betting $2.55 about Novak Djokovic beating Carlos Alcaraz. It was the overlay of the century The Joker has an outstanding record un hard courts, having won 71 of his 99 titles on the surfaces. Coming into last night’s match Djokovic boasted […]
