Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Sir Erec has been put down after breaking its leg at Cheltenham Festival. The horse, trained by Joseph Patrick O’Brien, was being ridden by Mark Walsh in the Triumph Hurdle when it pulled up after going over a fence. Sir Erec, who was the out-right favourite to win the race, suffered fatal injuries as a […]
Shane Ciurleo used to be Ben Currie’s man. He would help choose the cheap horses that Currie filled his stable with. Ciurleo used to do the form form for the now banished trainer too. In between engagements with BM Currie he worked briefly as the bloodstock manager for AQUIS, but that relationship didn’t last long […]
Peter Huxley was the boss of the NSW Rural Bank back in the 1960’s and 70’s. He was a pillar of society who served on the boards of prominent charities and leading arts organisations. Huxley had friends in high places, including in finance, politics and the police. Everyone trusted him. But they shouldn’t have, for […]
Our mail out of Melbourne is that a very well-known and loved Melbourne bookies clerk was seen strolling out of a garishly painted Mason Street, Newport tobacconist store this week with ten cartons of gaspers tucked under his wing. The problem is that the bloke – whose name is Renoir, or Rimbaud, or Rosscoe or […]
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 […]
Betmakers have announced a provisional loss of $7.8 million for the year, and tried to sell it as a win. Some win. The loss would have been closer to $20 million if the company hadn’t sacked 20% of its staff. The market weren’t fooled by the shiny bells and whistles. Betmaker share price dropped by […]
Bookmaker at Longreach yesterday Peter Anderson looks for all the world in the photo like a man who has just run over his own dog, and backed up and squashed his wife’s cat flatter than a pancake too. Anderson’s long face almost makes you feel so sorry for him that you want to walk up […]
