Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The South Australian training master of the long priced plunge ‘Super Mario’ Borg did it again at Globe Derby yesterday when his horse Levi Jimmy landed the cash in the 8th race after being backed from $23.00 into $5.50. Levi Jimmy hadn’t won a race in his previous 25 starts and was coming off recent […]
Sam Kilkenny has publicly admitted that he dipped into First Light Racing’s lolly jar to get a punting bank, and it seems all but certain that he had his hand in the till at the accountancy firm that he used to direct too, hence him being given two to the valley by the numbers nerds […]
The word out of Soviet South-East Queensland is that following publication of our story this morning about punter David ‘Baldy’ Frolley getting marched off the course at Ipswich a few weeks ago, the Ipswich CEO ‘Racin’ Nathan Exelby was inspired to pick up the phone and beg Baldy to come back to the course, and […]
By Stephen Drill, Herald Sun 18 October 2024 Sportsbet allowed an accountant to burn through millions despite claiming it has “game changing real time intervention” to stop problem gambling. Sam Kilkenny torched $8 million on Sportsbet, PointsBet and Ladbrokes betting accounts before he self excluded. At least $4 million of that punting plunge was lost […]
A bloke some call Wocka and others (including me) call Baldy is one of the more prominent faces the in betting rings around South-East QLD and Northern Rivers racetracks. If there’s a provincial TAB meeting on then he and his crew will be there doing the biz. Despite his somewhat average appearance – old t-shirts, […]
It wasn’t a very good day to be a tomato sauce taster yesterday at Mackay. There were four odds-on favorites on the eight race card. They started at $1.55, $1.45. $1.55 and $1.65. Each of the quartet got beaten. Just to rub it in three of them ran second, and the other one third. They’re cruel […]
There are no end of ways for a punter to do their money at the races. Here is yet another. The horse that buckjumped Ivy Dextress was the $1.24 favorite. Its rodeo performance saw it take no competitive part in the race. Ivy Dextress hasd been stood down pending a satisfactory trial. The punters who […]
Failed punter Eddie ‘The Fireman’ Birchley taught the world that the fastest way to go broke in this life without trying is to chase the tomato sauce and a quick buck by backing long odds on favorites in 2-year-old races. The Fireman did at the gallops, where he splashed then astronomical six-figure sums taking the […]
Trainer Brad Abbott had a $10 bet on his horse Hy Voltage in the 8th race at Menangle on Saturday night. Or at least he thought he did, but when Abbott later checked the ticket he discovered that he had put it on the wrong number by mistake. Abbott went to try and cancel the […]
Here is the in-play odds about Antino during the Toorak. Watch them and weep.
