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Who is Going to Argue With Their Boss’s Cousin and Best Mate? – Especially When He Has Got the Green Light? – Welcome to the World of Gambling Integrity – Tripp Style

by : peterprofitracing7 hours ago7 hours ago

Factual background The following factual background sets out some relevant events and circumstances that have given rise to the Commission’s concerns that are not disputed; they are acknowledged by BetEasy. Gambler was a self-excluded customer of CrownBet, BetEasy’s predecessor. His self excluded status was known to BetEasy and BetEasy’s affiliates John Dow and Jamie Myers. […]

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Come Into My Web, Said the Spider to the Fly – Taking a Western Tripp With Matt Trick

by : peterprofitracing7 hours ago4 hours ago

From the telephone discussion recordings between Dow and BetEasy staff, there is no doubt BetEasy was aware that: (a) the Account Holder (and her partner) had “two kids dying in hospital with a heart condition” and accordingly in a vulnerable position at the time; (b) the Account Holder’s partner was a permanently self-excluded gambler; and […]

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Never Trust a South Island Kiwi My Grandma Told Me – I Reckon She Was Right

by : peterprofitracing2 days ago

Tim Vince is a breath of fresh air – someone you enjoy being around on a racecourse. He has a delightful sense of cynical humour that he almost makes his own. A lifetime devotee of the horse, Vince is as immersed in both sides of the horse game as anyone you can think of. He owns and […]

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Row Row Row Your Boat Gently Up the Swan – This Was the Hottest Race on Earth in Perth, and Archie Won

by : peterprofitracing2 days ago2 days ago

The biggest plunge seen at the WA trots for a long time landed last night on race 7 at Gloucester Park. Rolling Fire was the horse’s name, and it was backed from $81 into $10. It should have been too. This race was a boatie. For the uninitiated, a boatie means the raced was fixed. […]

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Engines that Run Slow, Problem Gambling Programs Named After Corporate Bookies, and Big Villages Full of Spin Doctors – Welcome to the Self-Exclusion Register – The One That Doesn’t Exist

by : peterprofitracing4 days ago

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Merv’s Gone the Tomato Sauce to Break the Long Drought on the Tip

by : peterprofitracing4 days ago

Australia’s worst tipster Miracle Merv from Melbourne has reversed his punting strategy to try to break the long drought of 34 outs. He’s been trying them at odds lately, but it hasn’t worked. So to avoid going 35 no collects in a row he’s tipping us one in the sauce. Pinjarra Trots – Race 6 […]

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You Can’t Take the First Step on the Long March Without Moving

by : peterprofitracing4 days ago

The Government is setting up a one stop self-exclude stop to help compulsive gamblers exit the punting stage easily. It is a great initiative, but really just smoke in the air. You will be blocked from betting online, but what’s to stop you punting in TAB’s, or at tracks if there are bookies? Answer – […]

The Gallops The Punt

Nearly Four Decades Later, and Nothing Much Has Changed

by : peterprofitracing2 weeks ago2 weeks ago

I proved this true today Only punters under 50 were surprised when a 100-1 shot won today’s Missile Stakes. History always repeats. I was too young to bet legally in 1984, but it hadn’t stopped me since I was eight years old, so why would it stop me now. It ended up being one of […]

The Gallops The Punt

I Don’t Mean to Be Rude But ….

by : peterprofitracing2 weeks ago

… but if you are are winning on the punt today, then I hope you are bloody cold. Got the shits with the world after being knocked off three times by noses? Nah, not me. Much.

NZ Racing The Punt The Trots

Here We Go Again – Forget the Swagger, Man – This Stinks

by : peterprofitracing3 weeks ago3 weeks ago

A few weeks back we wrote about our concerns that a man named Matthew Peden was both the co-owner of standardbreds with certain people known to be punters or connected to punters, and at the same time employed in a position with the NZ TAB that afforded him managerial responsibility for setting and/or approving the […]