Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Rules can negatively impact on the racing industry’s ability to provide racing product. This is illustrated with the example of fourteen year old Sharon The Moment which won at Truro Raceway in Canada on the 31 December 2017 (truroraceway.ca). The next day it was no longer eligible to race, simply because it was one day […]
Using various Catastrophic Musculoskeletal Injury (CMI) rates I have constructed Table 1. Number of starts go up to three hundred as I have examined Standardbreds at the racetrack who have had in excess of that number of starts. An Australian Thoroughbred, Play David (b1978), had 236 starts and retired in Jun 1992 as a thirteen year […]
We have been threated with defamation action or similar by the lawyer for Swoosh Finance, the money lender sponsor of the Capalaba Greyhound Racing Club that featured in a few stories last week about the inappropriateness of the club promoting it on their media. This is our reply. The lawyers name is Parker, and as […]
Three decades ago Robbie Waterhouse sought a pardon from the Queen of England to get him back into racing after his Fine Cotton warning off. He didn’t get it from QE2. But he didn’t need it. His Queen whose efforts would get him restored to racing was only inches away on the other side of […]
The Australian Rich List is out, and the fun racing news is to learn that for all Lloyd Williams perceived and actual clout in the Australian racing world, the trot man from Queensland Kevin Seymour AM is richer than him. When you’ve got as much as either of them it doesn’t really matter either way, […]
This is the semaphore board at the Capalaba dogs, with the picture a still shot taken after a race on Sunday. Swoosh Finance is a third-tier money lender that provides short term loans at exorbitant though just legal interest rates. The Capalaba Greyhound Racing Club is funded by Racing Queensland through a share of gambling […]
Swoosh don’t tell you who the comparison rate is made against. Break-leg Lenny the Loan Shark at the illegal casino is our guess. Can I get a quick cash loan with no credit check? Swoosh does conduct a credit check when you apply for a loan. However, if you have bad credit, it doesn’t matter […]
What you see below are extracts from the Dept of Justice and Attorney General issues Queensland Responsible Gambling Manual, as it applies to the Capalaba Greyhound Racing Club and it’s 4.5 x 1.8m large semaphore board advertising for its sponsor the quick cash money lender Swoosh Finance. This racing resource manual was developed by industry […]
Bettor’s Delight is the magnificent looking stallion at the top. The Black Stallion is the superb one below. Champions often look the same.
There are all sorts of rumours floating around about what the Australian race wagering landscape might look like in two years time, but it is hard to get a straight bead on it because no-one who knows anything will talk about it, almost certainly for commercial and/or regulatory reasons. So we will take a non-informed […]
