Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Would you pay $160 000 for a fast female greyhound that has had 13 starts for 8 wins and won just $39 845 so far throughout it career, none of it for you? An intrepid Victorian owner named Giorgio Alvaro did a few months ago when he bought the promising bitch Mackenna off it’s then […]
As hard as it may be to believe, a punter or punters ripped a quarter of a million dollars out of the TAB and the corporate bookies yesterday in a massive plunge on a dog in a maiden at the obscure greyhound meeting at Capalaba in Queensland. Farmor Relief was the plunge dogs name. It […]
Take a look at this field in a maiden at Traralgon earlier in the week. Every single runner in the race is a 1st starter, and they are all trained by Robert Camilleri. Most of them are legless, although until they jumped no-one knew that except the trainer and his punter mates. They are clever, […]
Ben Yole’s best mate the Tasmanian greyhound trainer Anthony Bullock – who was recently disqualified for life after live baiting after the tail of a pademelon (a small possum sized kangaroo) was found on a lure at his property – has appealed his DQ, claiming that deceitful animal activists had ‘planted’ the tail. It’s a […]
The announcement of the life disqualification of the obviously continued incorrigible live baiter Anthony Bullock is welcome breath of fresh air from a fetid Tasmanian racing environment. Bullock – the mate of Ben Yole, and the man who chainsawed his unwanted horses into pieces and fed them to his hounds – has been put out […]
Anthony Bullock is Tasmania’s top greyhound trainer. He has won 13 of the past 14 State Premierships. Which is probably a good reason why dog racing in the Apple Isle should be shut. It’s well-known that I both like greyhounds as animals, and that I like racing them, and I don’t think that as a […]
The Brisbane Greyhound Racing Club (BGRC) is the exemplar of how to run a race club, as it has proven once again by the outstanding results revealed in this year’s annual report. This is a club that was floundering a decade ago, having recorded 5 successive years of end on end losses, but under the […]
In a strange but progressive and welcomed twist of fate, just a week after posting a brilliant result for yet another financial year – it’s tenth on end – soon the Brisbane Greyhound Racing Club may be no more. At next week’s club AGM it’s members will be asked to vote on an amalgamation with […]
Me the good luck charm with Mick Zammit and his son after the big race. I have known Mick Zammit for 40 years, and my parents knew his parents before that, way back to the days when Mick and Tony’s dad Sammy was a trot trainer. They have always been good people the Zammits, genuine […]
For the 8th consecutive year Queensland harness racing has returned a 7-figure loss, taking the total losses over these 8 years to over $45 million. The only good news is that the loss this has been reduced to ‘only’ a million dollars, but still it is unsustainable in the long term, and something has to […]
