Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Ritchie Banks from Reefton – He doesn’t shovel shit They say that Australians will bet on two flies crawling up a wall. And the TAB let us wager on the Norwegian women’s handball. So why can’t we gamble responsibly on the NZ coal shoveling? Digging’s a quintessential Aussie pastime, even when its being done by […]
This is is what the wowsers from the ABC broadcast tonight about the NRL Vegas round and the punt. The hypocrites. How quickly they forget. I remember watching the Miracle Mile on channel 2 as a kid, and seeing the ABC presenters spruik the race, the odds and a bet. To some extent I reckon […]
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https://t.co/UMtexLFM2J — Lilley Racing Stables (@LilleyRacing) March 10, 2024 If you backed the $1.40 favorite Queen Elida in the La Coocaracha at Bendigo last night you should be down on your knees giving praise to the punting gods right now. The Queen was a great run from well back in […]
Watch Nathan Dawson in the white 3 back the fence. See how he knocks down the horse on the outside of him when he veers out underneath him as he pushes out into the clear? Dawson’s horse was backed for a stack. By the way he drove it N. Dawson was clearly in for a […]
OF all the high players this country ever sees, there is no doubt but that the guy they call The Sky is the highest. In fact, the reason he is called The Sky is because he goes so high when it comes to betting on any proposition whatever. He will bet all he has, and […]
Pure betting odds are simply an expression of a horse’s probability of winning a race. If the horse’s odds are $2.00, or even money in the old language, then it has a 50% chance of winning the race, just as it has the same 50% chance of not winning it. Bookies odds are slightly different, […]
There were 14 gallops races with an odds-on favorite in them run around Australia on Thursday, from Ipswich to King Island, with Goulburn, Hamilton and Pakenham in between. 10 of the 14 that started in the ketchup went down. Never bet odds-on, never run up stairs. One of the ten was the Chris Waller trained […]
The leader Jungle Eyes was home to the world in the last race at Menangle. There was no way it was going to get beaten. Until this happened. Ouch. It’s a hard knock life.
It’s hard not to be enthralled by the Boys Get Paid movement, which peaked with a public betting syndicate that had a starting pool in excess of $1.2 million at Ellerslie on Saturday. They turned over $1,908,323 which contributed to an all-time TAB record meeting turnover of $9.5 million (on just six races). Had Legarto […]
https://twitter.com/benyelloc/status/1752916897706967420 This racing commentator on Twitter is blowing up big time about the defeat of the Annabel Neasham trained Plundering at Doomben yesterday. Here are some basic facts. Horses throw shoes behind the barrier regularly and get reshod by the farrier, and it’s not a big deal. Runners get vetted at the start and are […]
