Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The whispers are getting louder that certain Australian trainers are using a tweaked synthetic facsimile of stonefish venom sourced from Asia to supercharge their stable runners, and an unexpected – although unsurprising – name from New Zealand keeps popping up among the talk as the source. Timothy Robin Vince. We have written about Vince several […]
Every jockey’s worst nightmare? Yeah for sure. Poor them. All they suffer humiliation and embarrassment, and maybe a lost ride. It costs those who backed the eased up early horse cold hard cash. The real victims of this horror show are the punters.
Methinks punter Peter Lawrence is the last person who should be whining and moaning about TAB rorts. After all, Lawrence is Robbie Waterhouse’s man on the NSW north coast, and a close associate of Sally Snow. He wasn’t complaining when Sally was inflating the TAB odds for his crew during the hour of power then […]
By Danny Russell When bookmaker David McLauchlan met client Allen Ng in a northern suburb car park to collect an $80,000 gambling debt, he did not foresee that he was the one who would end up the biggest loser in a Supreme Court case. He did not suspect that Ng would become a client who […]
Peter Huxley was the boss of the NSW Rural Bank back in the 1960’s and 70’s. He was a pillar of society who served on the boards of prominent charities and leading arts organisations. Huxley had friends in high places, including in finance, politics and the police. Everyone trusted him. But they shouldn’t have, for […]
Sam Kilkenny is a the bloke who along with his then business partner set up the highly successful racehorse syndicator First Light Racing. Kilkenny, an accountant by trade who was a director of the firm Willis Partners, until recently used to be front, back and center promoting First Light, and was regularly seen at the […]
If Darwin racing man Mark Gillam made his living as a tipster he’s be eating dry bread crusts for dinner. Gillam tipped Bear Story an unbeatable certainty in the Darwin Cup on Monday, saying on times it had worked better than any horse he’d ever timed. You’d think by his age though he would have […]
