Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Remember our article yesterday about the winner who lost, the bloke who had $2500 on a dead-heat winner at the Bunbury trots and was paid a dividend almost $500 less than his stake? Well some stories have happy endings. Yesterday afternoon, some hours after our article was published, Betr contacted the punter and offered to […]
A mate of mine had $2500 the win on Patched in the last race at Pinjarra last night with Betr at odds of $1.65 . It’s the horse in the middle in the picture. It dead-heated for first. My mate’s return? $2062.50. Remember the bloke had $2500 on it. He backed the winner and lost […]
Trainer Mark Currie pulled off the biggest plunge anywhere in Australia yesterday when his horse Tavs won race 3 at Eagle Farm. The money came for him early and came hard, and it kept coming all the way until the starter let them go. $19.00 into $4.20 Tavs was backed, and the way the race […]
Australia’s favorite on-course punter David ‘Baldy’ Frolley – known to his friends as Wok – is the last of the diehards whose days are spent turning up to the track to chase the ponies and trying to turn a quid. Baldy is seen at racecourses all up and down the eastern seaboard, from Victoria to […]
Our very own world’s largest punter Zeljko Ranogajec is in the news this week, after the Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick called a $92 million lotto win orchestrated by he and his team “the biggest theft from the people of Texas in the history of Texas”, more than “all the bank robberies, all the train […]
Shoeless in race 6 at Werribee on Saturday was probably the biggest go of the day anywhere in the country. $14.00 into $3.50 it was backed. Someone forgot to tell its jockey Jackie Berriman however. Or maybe they did, I don’t know. There are only two things for sure. One is that J. Berriman didn’t […]
Rumors are sweeping the track that a former police officer turned crown witness in a murder case known as the Nazi Hunter has been headhunted to join the Gallagher trot punting gang, and that a secret meeting will be this week at the Redcliffe Trots for the purpose. The Nazi Hunter, a once warned off […]
There is a continuing controversy involving AFL umpire Nick Foot’s employment by Sportsbet, with questions being asked about some of Foot’s officiating calls in the Collingwood-Bulldogs game on the weekend, and whether they were in any way influenced by his association with the bookmaker. Let us make our position on the issue clear. Nick Foot […]
The trainer on the hottest streak in NSW right now Chris Judd’s juggernaut rolled on at Menangle last night. Judd had two runners on the card for a winner and a $31 third. His winner was Speculating, which was well placed dropping back to the same class in which he last won over the distance […]
Four out of the five race meetings scheduled for today were canceled, which meant that there was more money in the pools for the last man standing, Goulburn. Big pools Grandma. “All better to plunge you with” said trainer Richard Collett, big time jockey Jason’s dad, and a very canny horseman in his own right. […]
