Over the Sticks
I don’t think this horse will be winning a Grand National anytime soon.
Latham the Poo Slide Lover Has the Hide of an Elephant and the Judgement of a Gnat
The only surprise about Mark Latham being frog marched out of the Grand View Restaurant at Randwick by police yesterday is that this grub who gets a sexual thrill from defecating on women was at the track at all. The half-mad serial ship jumper has the hide of an elephant and the judgement of a […]
Liquidated Bookies, Bowlers and Cash Cages – Just Wait Til PVL Hears About This
Do you remember we warned you a while back about the corporate bookie ZBet, and how they were supposed to have been not paying winning punters their dough? Well the bookie has gone now and the company has folded. ZBet and the other two names it’s known by, Zoo Entertainment and Razoo Ent. They are […]
Is Head to Head Betting on Victorian Races Actually Legal?
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 […]
The Importance of Reading Bookmaker’s T&C’s
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. […]
The Great Rock n Roll Late Scratching Deductions Rort – And How to Stop It
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 […]
Melbourne Racing Club Reports $17.3 Million Loss for 2024/25 Year
The Melbourne Racing Club (MRC), owner of the Caulfield, Sandown and Mornington race clubs, has reported an alarming annual loss of $17.3 million for the 2024/25 financial year. The loss comes despite the club having drawn down an additional $24.2 million from its $200 million line of credit with the bank, leaving the MRC owning […]
Racing NSW Need to Start Giving Us the Full Picture on the ATC Intervention, Otherwise Racing People Will Start Painting Their Own
A frequent claim is that ATC should simply receive all wagering revenue generated by betting from all wagering operators on all its races. Based on this claim, the ATC would receive $80.1 million. The actual money it receives from Racing NSW from wagering highlights why this argument is absurd given that in 2025, the ATC […]
Racing NSW Putting the ATC into Administration is Not as Simple as it Might Seem
Placing the ATC into administration is not as simple as Racing NSW might have us believe. Racing NSW has the power under section 14(2)(g) of the Thoroughbred Racing Act 1996 (‘Racing Act’) to appoint an administrator to conduct the affairs of the Australian Turf Club (ATC). That much is clear. https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/whole/html/inforce/current/act-1996-037#sec.14 HOWEVER Under the Registered […]
Bringing the ATC Problems to QLD – What Sort of Debts Will the Matthew McGrath Led Racing Review Leave Behind?
Matthew McGrath, the man from NSW running the QLD Racing Review, is a great self-promoter, but are his claims to being a highly successful racing administrator true? The simple answer in our opinion? No. In a submission McGrath made to the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Sale of Rosehill he made the following claims, which no […]