Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Following out story yesterday we were contacted by an elder from the Edge Hill area in Cairns who suggests that we were only half right in our story about well known punter and commission agent turned First People’s rights activist Uncle Milty Doyle being from the Fraser Island People. The Edge Hill man, who […]
Well known Brisbane commission agent, punter and one time officer of the law Milton Doyle has become the 21st century face of reconciliation, and good on him too. The word around the tracks is that the recent birth of Doyle’s beautiful grandson was like a St Paul on the road to Damascus moment for the […]
I do believe that we have mentioned the police officer cum trot trainer ‘Smoking’ Joe Connolly’s name on this website before, usually in relation to horses that are backed and suddenly improve their form quite rapidly to win these said races. Smoking Joe doesn’t miss much in these scenarios, so when I noticed a horse […]
It was a funny old night at Bathurst. The fave in the 1st blew from $1.60 to $1.95, got planted in the death outside the 2nd fave and got beaten a head, in a deceptive finish in which it appeared that driver Amy Day stopped driving and took a huge grip three strides too early. […]
America is like Australia, the States regulate gambling, not the Federal Government, however it is different in one hugely important respect. Put in simple terms, that difference is that certain Native American tribes have their own land (reservations, not the type we think of in indigenous terms, but massive tracts of land) and recognition as […]
Many wags around Brisbane are wondering how a well known racing identity and even better known police informant happened to know about the arrest last week of a bloke in Operation Tango Citron, a major drug trafficking investigation by police, well before the busts were publicly announced, and before even the accused man’s bail guarantor […]
You and your silent partner in the nightclub trade have $200 000 cash that you found in dirty pool of water and you want to clean. Silent Sam runs a chain of car washes that take notes and coins, so he has a legit source of high volume, hard to trace cash. You have 20k […]
I missed out on my turn to pay for dinner last time Sheila Laxon and Johnny Symons were up in the Douglas, and no it wasn’t deliberate, I got sick. I doubt it will matter too much after the plunge the perfect pair landed at Doomben yesterday. Symons doesn’t bet a lot, but when he […]
First there were satchel swingers. Then there was the TAB. The corporates came with their algorithms. Marky Mark became Mike Iceberg, and we got Shaq attacked. We all thought we’d seen at all. But then Donald Duck! Whoever thought that Mickey Mouse and his mates would get hooked on the punt? Yes kiddies, that’s right. […]
What you see in the picture is race 8 at Te Aroho (which by the way means Love) in New Zealand. There are eight starters in the race, and Atomic is one of them. Atomic runs third. Neds and Ladbrokes pay a place dividend for him, so do the TAB. So does everyone actually, except […]
