Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
If you had been silly enough to take the $1.35 about Aquaholic in the 2-year-old Maiden at Ipswich yesterday you would have started feeling nauseous at the 1000 metre mark when he started pulling his head off, and become more and more ill with every metre further the race went. Aquaholic pulled it self into […]
Well that didn’t take long did it? I wonder how Dame Nellie Cobbler found out that you can only have 5 horses in a parlay on the TAB? Ha ha ha. Warning! Warning! Problem gambler.
You might remember Nick ‘the Cobbler’ Cataldi, the humble shoe repair from Sydney living in the back of his shop whose world turned around when he fluked a long priced multi one Sunday afternoon at a provincial gallops meeting in Albany, WA that landed him a return of almost $700 000, which bought the Cobbler […]
A bloke I once knew was a senior investment advisor at the Port of Brisbane. The Commissioner we used to call him, because he used to kick around the track with huge wads of cash and give everyone the impression that he was a smartie, and he was arrogant about it too, as punt drunk […]
Let me share with you a story that was in The Sunday Mail on March 16, 1997. Peter Hinterdorfer was 34 and lived on debt. He struggled to support his wife and two year old son. He was an accountant for the Port of Brisbane Corporation. Peter achieved one of the state’s biggest gambling-related heists by stealing […]
A former Canterbury harness racing trainer spent more than 2 million dollars online gambling before filing for bankruptcy. Mitchell Paul Kerr has been sentenced to five months of home detention for misleading statements and withholding information while filing for bankruptcy. Kerr, whose licence was cancelled by the Judicial Control Authority for Racing, concealed crucial details […]
These bets you see at the top are fair dinkum wagers, published by one of Australia’s largest bookmakers on the bet ticker available on its app. $80 grand the place on a pacer on a pacer in race 4 at Wagga last night. Who said you can’t get a bet on at the trots on […]
Anyone who religiously follows the Tonkin/Stewart stable is eating cold porridge mixed with water this morning after both of their runners at Maryborough yesterday went down. Vague Beauty started at $1.90 in the 4th race and looked home to the world down the straight, before it lost interest and fell in a hole to throw […]
Trainer Mario Borg has scratched hiswhole team from meetings three times lately. We called him on each occasion to ask why. The first time he said that the oppressive heat conditions in Adelaide that weekend presented a welfare risk to his animals. Time two he was sick. Third time around he couldn’t run at the […]
Royal Bombadier was backed from $2.50 into $1.22 to win the 5th race at Wellington yesterday. It was the plunge of the day, maybe even of the whole weekend. The plonk h0rse parked outside the leader, a position from which it should have won. But a roughie at odds of $46 sat three-wide without cover […]
