Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The Victorian government’s recently introduced laws prohibiting betting on outcomes that relate to the outcome of the performance of an individual minor (age 19 or below) in a sports betting event has sunk the century old tradition of punting on the foot races at the Stawell Gift, with the organisers of the event deciding that […]
Poor Poly, nobody loves her. Especially not Queensland racehorse trainers. All they do is abandon her. Poly is the Sunshine coast cushion track. This Sunday’s race meeting was transferred from the turf track to Poly due to the grass surface being unsuitable to race on. Now due to Poly’s unpopularity there will be no racing […]
Once upon a time racing people of a certain bent used to live in hope of one day becoming a racing steward. Back then it was near impossible to get in if you weren’t from a racing family. Nowadays though it seems that they can’t give stewarding jobs away. Is it any surprise given what […]
Victorian racing identity Jonathon Munz got a bit of his own this morning when the coup he led against the Racing Victoria board fell flat on its face, with the man who sacked Craig Williams from Giga Kick’s team winning only 3 votes out of 35, leaving them well short of the 24 votes required […]
For almost two decades, former National Rugby League player Mitch Creary (pictured above) has owned and operated a pub for racing enthusiasts in south-east NSW. Punters used to flock to The Commercial in Bega to watch thoroughbred and greyhound racing and place bets through an agreement with Tabcorp and its flagship racing channel, Sky. But […]
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Sydney punter and former brothel owner Eddie Hayson has been arrested by NSW police over the alleged importation of 16kg of methamphetamine and 5 kilograms of MDMA. Police picked up the 55-year-old year-old on the Gold Coast on Tuesday morning where he is expected to appear in Southport magistrates court. Officers will allege the interstate […]
Many in the racing industry are wondering how the Tasmanian based former Asian Racing Journal columnist Bren O’Brien has managed to fund his immediately prodigious start-up racing website the straight.com.au, and how he has obtained the funds to employ and pay a suite of staff that includes racing journalists, website designers, accountants, and admin workers. […]
You can see above what the slang term for cue means. So what do you reckon a Cueman does? Or a Queman, if you are spelling it to avoid the obvious. The Oakleigh Plate is run over 1100m. Get the symbolism? I don’t think the racehorse naming authority did. If you backed them out, then […]
As you can see at the top, just before 8.00pm on Sunday night the TAB were telling its customers that today’s Taroom race meeting in QLD was going to be run on a Good 4 track. Fat chance. At the same time the national racing information body RISA was quite correctly declaring the track to […]
