A Reader’s Lament About Betting Markets Being Slow to Go Up
Hi Archie What’s the go with the TAB & Corporates not betting on Toowoomba at 8.00 am on race day? How do they expect an old age pensioner to make a honest living? Ronnie from the Range
An Interesting Affair
The Stewards at Rockhampton yesterday questioned trainer Nick Walsh about a number of significant bets that had been placed on his runner in the 2nd race Fine Shot when the early markets went up on Thursday. You might ask so what, but the reason that they asked the question is because the bets were placed […]
A Cruel Way For the Punters to Lose Their Dough – Or Some of Them Anyway
The punters who took $1.40 about Golly Gee Fellas in race 2 at Newcastle yesterday afternoon were left in tears after the favorite galloped out of the gate and lost all chance before the race had even begun. It was a sick beat that once more shows why you should never take the tomato sau, […]
Another Day, Another QRIC Stuff Up – More Pity the Punter
How hard is it to read a scale of deductions table correctly? Prideofthebigfish (what a name) was $4.00 in the betting when it was pulled out of race 5 at Boweb as a late scratching on the weekend. Unless I am totally blind rather than just partuially vision impaired, that should have meant deductions of […]
The $50 000 Bet and the Textbook Red Hot Steer
I am not suggesting that 21-year-old reinsman Lucas Rando drove the even money favorite Gandalf dead in the 4th race at Newcastle last, or that his steer night was anything other than above board. I am sure that it was. But if you ever wanted to show someone how to drive a horse to get […]
The Blow Up After the $300 000 Plunge Went Down – And How the Wrong Driver Was Blamed
… except when he’s marching straight ahead to the Stewards room The mail out of Newcastle is that Emilio Rosati, the owner of the pacer Destiny Stride that went down at $1.35 last night while carried a $300 000 bet on its back, was far from impressed with the contribution of some of the other […]
Who Says That You Can’t Get a Decent Bet on the Trots? – Why All Horse Players Die Broke
Ladbrokes have this quite unique feature on its app where all wagers placed with the bookmaker are published in live time as they are placed. The names aren’t shown but the bets are. This one was spotted by an eagle-eyed reader last night. It’s a 100 percent fair dinkum bet. $300 000 on a threes […]
A Super Stupid Bet and a Very Sick Watch
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 […]
Dame Nellie Cobbler Makes His Comeback – Just Two Days After He Retired
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.
The Dame Nellie Melba of Fluke Punting Announced His Retirement Yet Again
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 […]