Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
So the quicker you teach the lad to assess form, the faster he will learn to win on the punt. You don’t think Robbie or Tom Waterhouse learned to handicap a race when they were 25 do you? If it’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for the Bean. Lookout bookies when the kid […]
Bill Vlahos is probably the biggest racing scammer in Australian history. He stole almost $18 million from investors in his so-said punting syndicate. I say so said because Vlahos never punted at all. The whole thing was a lie. It was a Ponzi scheme. Vlahos made it all up. A Ponzi scheme is an investment […]
The Butcher – Zaid Miller – is the bloke who was paying Tommy Berry for tips. Like Berry, Butch was put out for 12 months on a DQ. Both men appealed, and they both lost. However the Chairman of the Appeals Panel had some very strange things to say about Butch. I will quote them. […]
The punter who had $40 grand each way on Gringos – if he exists – didn’t quite do his arse, because it ran 2rd and he got $1.30 the place, meaning his total loss with Sportsbet was ‘only’ $28 000. The fella who had ten grand on it straight out on the TAB did. He […]
Tom Hedley has a massive stable of horses, almost all of them 2nd hand rejects from the south of varying qualities. It costs a fortune to feed them. To pay for it Uncle Tom has to pull off the occasional plunge on big race days when he can get a decent bet on. That’s usually […]
To the amazement of everyone except those like me who have been represented by the Magic Man J.E. Murdoch K.C., late last week Jason Jill Grimson got a stay of his 12 month disqualification for king hitting another participant in the Creek Bar after the Blacks a Fake. The stay lasts for a maximum of […]
The so called Aussie Fair Play Coalition pretended to be the voice of Australian gambling. The ‘Coalition’ claimed that foreign owned bookies were shifting a fortune of their profits outside of Australia. “Where are these going? Isle of Man?” the paid actors in their anti-every other bookie ads asked. There were three things that the […]
We are a weird mob we punters are. Zjelko Ranogajec – the Joker – is widely regarded as the world’s biggest punter, but he’s not. It’s a dead heat between he and his business partner David Walsh, who has used some of his vast fortune to buy all the land up the road from the […]
Flash Aah has got 64kg in the 3rd race at Cairns tomorrow. That’s 10kg above almost every other horse in the race, and 9.5kg above the one that it isn’t. So what? Super heroes can carry a grandstand in one hand, and save a universe in the other. He’s the best of good things our […]
A former contractor who engaged in corrupt dealings with a Queensland council and the state’s racing body will be sentenced in a Brisbane court on Friday. Wayne Innes, 59, pleaded guilty to a slew of dishonesty offences in the Brisbane District Court on Monday. The court was told the former owner of Landfill Logistics had […]
