Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Being fixated on closing sectionals (the last 200m / 400m / 600m for example) is not the way to go. Far too little importance is placed on the early sectionals and pace through the first two-thirds of the race. Some horses that go far too fast early can be forgiven for puncturing late, but are often dismissed […]
There is a new twist in the story of the stood down punting Assistant Starter in New Zealand that we told you about the other day. The poor bastard doesn’t deserve the sack at all, and there was no potential integrity breach. He was merely at the tote window before the first race putting a […]
@Nickmartin555 Can’t believe you only charge $200/week Dicko @dickosmailbag Sometimes I think the same thing mate. The art of the self-spruik has been around forever, since the days of David claiming to have slain Goliath with a slingshot and running all the way through The secret to the spruik’s success is showing the customer the […]
Last night at Dubbo the 3-year-old pacer Our Sailor provided a very special Boxing Day present to it’s connections and to those who backed it from double figure odds into $5.50 – presumably one and the same – when it won the 4th race on the card from the breeze. It was a very clever […]
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 […]
Laurie’s Gem blew from $3.70 out to $17.00 in the 7th race at Capalaba yesterday. The gospel rule is never back anything that blows harder than Cyclone Jasper. It seems this rule is wrong. Laurie’s is in the pink. Bingo. ScreenRecorderProject120
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, […]
Sir Jumping Jason Grimson got the biscuits with Swayzee in the NZ Cup on Tuesday, much the chagrin of almost every harness racing person in the country, but there’s an old saying about not pushing your luck too far, one that Grimm0’s posse has obviously never heard or heeded. On Friday the Sir G-crew’s ignorance […]
Have you heard of this one before? Another horse’s tail getting wrapped around another jockeys boot, causing that rider’s foot to be pulled from the stirrup, which in turn made their mount lose several lengths? That’s what happened to Roth ‘N’ Bell’s rider Morgan Butler in the 8th race at Innisfail yesterday. The horse lost […]
The NT Racing Commission has recently ruled against a lightning fast soccer punter who to get on a La Liga 2nd division soccer game after it had finished and succeeded, as it turns out only temporarily. What happened is that the punter must have been watching the game live, whereas through no fault of the […]
