Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I know a bloke who nailed the Pick 6 on today’s New Zealand Cup meeting. It paid $450 000. He didn’t get it all, but he got plenty. Whoever said that punting was for losers? If you meet a bloke named (XXXXX) at a bar at Christchurch tonight don’t buy him a drink. He can […]
As we have written before, by virtue of his share in the biggest and most successful punting operation in Hong Kong, the video form guru and harness nut Tim Vince is the richest man in the Kiwi trots. Vince is also an oft partner in horses with Summit Bloodstock, which in my book a huge […]
One of my half a dozen bets on the good thing. Got the price. Form ‘expert’ Shane Ciurlio declared the favourite it in the Cup a moral. He ended up with more egg on his face than a bloke lying on the floor in a battery hen farm. Now it’s my turn. But I don’t […]
Have a look at this race will you. In particular have a close look at the drive on the horse 3 back the fence in the black. Watch it closely over the last 100m, and keep one eye fixed firmly on the driver Rodney Laker. Why did Lakey do that? There can only be one […]
Matt Tripp should have the Edge Hill kid running his book. He knows how to count. The hot word from out sources down south inside Sportsbet is that the floundering and flailing BetR CEO Matthew Tripp has stuffed up big time with his $101 odds Melbourne Cup promo, and is under huge pressure from his […]
For a long time there I was a lone voice in the wilderness shouting about how Sharp ‘N’ Smart was a champion, and it took until Saturday for the ‘experts’ in the mainstream media to wake up and realise that I was telling the truth. Now they have they are all over him, with some […]
This is my wife Maggie’s great-grandfather, Herbert Charles Cull, aka Aiden De Brune, a once famous Australian author. From 1921 to 1924 he spent two years walking around Australia, becoming the first person ever to do so in the process. In 1920 he was working as a journalist at the Bunbury Herald when suddenly he […]
I always wanted to be tough. Boxing didn’t do it. Tatts didn’t do it. Homelessness didn’t do it, or living on bet drunk bones of my arse for years. Not even incarceration did. But now, thanks to the Sport of Stings, I have made it. What the punt taketh away, the punt gives back in […]
One of the curious anomalies with the betting markets on Jockey and Driver Challenges is that there are no deductions applied for scratchings. What I mean by that is if you back a horse to win a race at evens and it is pulled out at the barrier you cop massive deductions off the face […]
We come to race 8 at Gloucester Park last night. The favourite is 2-1 on in the old parlance, or $1.50 in today’s language. A horse named Alcippes Delight, who was drawn on the outside of the back row, was backed from $13.00 into $4.80 to beat it. One guess who owns Alcippes Delight, or […]
