Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Adam Hamilton is a discredit to himself, his profession and the sport of harness racing. The tragedy is that he was once a great journalist, the doyen of trot writers and commentators in Australia. I don’t know what has happened, but these days he seems to be just a sycophant who prefers the easy type […]
by Adam Hamilton After a race Down Under harness racing should have celebrated for weeks, the unfortunate dark side of the game ruined it for one of Australia’s top young drivers. Amidst the disappointment of Leap To Fame’s luckless yet enormous run, in defeat to wonder mare Captains Mistress, in the Inter Dominion pacing final, […]
Betting pre-post with the TAB is a very dangerous game. Unders are almost every bets middle name. Here below are the prices on the TAB that Racenet was spruiking in the lead up to the race. Value extraordinaire they were. Not. The TAB early prices are in bold. The SP is next to it. Yeah […]
Fuck knows what Karl Stefanovic is on, but you only need to take one look at interviewing the mad right-wing racist Tommy Robinson to know that it’s something. This is not the Karl we used to know from the morning show. The fella we are looking at is off his tits. He’s out of his […]
This is what supposed rugby league expert Adam Pengilly wrote on Foxsports this morning, in an article bagging Laurie Daley and his blues. The bloke is an idiot who doesn’t people whose blood runs maroon. No mate, we don’t have JT, Cam, Cooper and Billy, Not out there on the playing field anyway. But we […]
Peter Fitzsimons is one Australia’s master sports writers. In fact Fitz in one of our all time great writers full stop. It doesn’t mean that he’s flawless though. Fitz wakes lyrical in his post-match Origin report about Robert Toia “the debutant Blues centre arriving exactly where history says its heroes must arrive – first”. There […]
Gold Coast coach Damien Hardwick has deflected criticism of the gambling industry back at the AFL amid concerns about the Suns’ links with bookmakers. Hardwick’s press conference in Darwin reached a flashpoint when the Suns coach was asked about team manager Mark Opie on Thursday. Opie is subject to an AFL integrity unit investigation after […]
The mainstream media, who like the AFL Integrity Unit are now all het up about the issue, are claiming that Crikey broke the story about the bookie Mark Opie working on the staff of the Gold Coast Suns. What a load of absolute bullshit. We first raised the conflict of interest issues between Opie’s role […]
Harness Racing Nes South Wales paid correspondent Michael Dumesny wrote the words below that were published on the HRA website on Tuesday. I have never met or dealt with M. Dumesny, and have nothing against him at all. But what he writes in this story is absolute nonsense. For the simple reasons detailed in precis […]
The woman in the middle in the picture that leads this story is Maree Crabtree, the mother who was today acquitted of topping her violent, abusive, drug addict son by overdosing him with a poisoned smoothie. This picture is taken as she is leaving court after the verdict. The blonde woman on Crabtree’s right is […]
