Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
This is the police video of the arrest of Tommy Berry’s mate The Butcher last week. Whether or not Zaid Miller will be backing Tommy’s tips this weekend is unknown. For some reason the Magistrate issued an order prohibiting the result of the Butcher’s bail application. Butch’s latest bookie UpCoz will be sweating on finding […]
The inside mail from the Deagon bunker is that Jason Scott is about to be appointed to the position as CEO of Racing QLD. It amazes those of us who knew him as Les Scott back in the days when he was a commission agent at Harold Park for the controversial racing identity and professional […]
Archie That study you quoted is ancient history. There’s one reason problem gamblers are problem gamblers and it’s the same for every type of addiction, sex, drugs alcohol rock ‘n’ roll, and that’s the pleasure pain balance in the mesolimbic dopamine pathway. You can listen about it here. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p3JLaF_4Tz8 Anna Lembke, Psychiatrist and Chief of […]
Abstract Physiological arousal is purportedly a key determinant in the development and maintenance of gambling behaviors, with problem gambling conceptualized in terms of abnormal autonomic responses. Theoretical conceptualizations of problem gambling are discordant regarding the nature of deficit in this disorder; some accounts posit that problem gamblers are hypersensitive to reward, and others that they […]
We had a rather good day yesterday. And an even better night. Melbourne Merv did too. He copied our bets in the Group 1’s, and then switched to the Godolphin blue. He’s Sharp and Smart that Butterworth. The crafty young bugger will be a whole lot richer after the Derby on Saturday too. Not that […]
STEWARDS REPORT – RACE 8 8 There’s A Shadow – Shortened stride and appeared injured in the back straight. and lost ground around the second turn. A post-race veterinary examination revealed a nearside front stopper bone injury and stood down from racing for 42 days and will need to perform a veterinary clearance trial. This will […]
Sally McManus (below), the Boxer Boys (above). From left to right, Australian amateur lightweight champion Jack the Ripper, former NSW Heavyweight champion the Balmain Boxer, and weight trainer extraordinaire, great Australian larrikin, gold merchant, and all round top bloke Digger Dave. The little prick on the left backed 3 out of 5, at odds too. […]
Have it win and place. Doubles, trebles and all four. You can’t go wrong. And you won’t. The Kiwi form eats the Australian. And neither Legarto or Prowess will be running in the Oaks. Even if they did they wouldn’t get the distance down a well. Savacat will run the 12 furlongs on her ear, […]
A few weeks ago the NZ Oaks looked a foregone conclusion, with the super smart filly Prowess winning it. Trainer Roger James thought his girl was so good that he put her in the Derby too, and the odds makers made her a close 2nd favorite to the champion Sharp N Smart. Then five days […]
It’s not often we share the same space these days. Had enough of that in our early days, but fate did just that last night. Archie made a pit stop on his way to the Apple Isle for the wedding of his good friends Steve and Chelsea. And I was in Melbourne for a court […]
