Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
The French are good at football, real real good. But they are lay down Sally’s with hearts of peas. We’ve seen that in two World Wars, we’ve seen it in the Rugby, and we are about to see it again. Morocco don’t let other teams score. That means they are evens of making to the […]
John Lingard from letsgohorseracing.com is a student of Hong Kong racing and a superb judge. Every week he distributes a tip sheet to his clients which is extraordinarily good value at about a fifth of the cost of those put out by the so-called experts, and his results are five times better too. Yesterday on […]
The man on your left is jockey Tommy Berry. The man on your right is the butcher come millionaire professional punter Zaid Miller. Miller is the man that Berry is charged for dealing with. Except his real name is not Zaid Miller. There is a lot whole lot more to this story than there seems. […]
Yes I declared that Australia couldn’t win or draw a game. They got 2 out of 3. Loss 1 unit. Yes I declared that the Germany would win the Cup. They’re out in the first round. Loss 1 unit. Current total = Loss 2 units. But but but, hey hey hey – I tipped the […]
I was waiting at the Cairns train station the other day waiting to pick up some friends coming back from Kuranda so I could drive then up to Port Douglas when an announcement came through that the loco was going to be delayed for a couple of hours, so I ducked across the road to […]
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, / Gang aft agley (often go astray) – Robert Burns Kiwi drivers Blair Orange and Gavin Smith has it all worked out in the 9th at Addington today. Orange’s was on A Bettor You, the odds on favourite from the Mark Purdon stable at $1.80. It was […]
I steal David Walsh’s carpark at Mona Professional gambler and art collector David Walsh says the price of bitcoin may tumble to zero, confessing he is not a fan of volatile cryptocurrencies even though he believes blockchain technology has value. Mr Walsh, a mathematician and wealthy professional gambler who is part of a syndicate that […]
I don’t have enough fingers and toes to count up how old trainer Tony Peacock and his stable driver Brian Gath are. I think if you counted backwards you’d up somewhere around the time that Ned Kelly was hung. Peacock and Gath are no Neds. They are too smart to end up on the end […]
Flashy Seb is the $1.60 favourite in race 1 at Menangle. If it steps clean and trots throughout it probably wins. Probably, but nowhere near certainly. But if gallops at the start it’s gone. I reckon it is likely to, and the odds are evens at worst, and more likely 6-4 that it will happen. […]
Michael Pell is the AFL umpire accused of leaking Brownlow votes to his mates so they could all make a motza punting on medal winner. What a scumbag. I guess with a surname like Pell is was sort of inevitable that he would end up being a corrupt prick. Karma I think it’s called. This […]
