Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
A Melbourne-based betting “consultancy” firm is hunting a client for missing thousands after engaging the punter to place bets on its behalf. Professional gambling outfit Good Will Punting sued James McConnon for almost $7000 after it signed the client as an “agent” in September 2020. The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal heard on Tuesday Mr […]
Every bastard in the world wants to sell you a gambling system or tips. They try and make out that winning on the punt is a far too complex business for the average mug, and that your best bet is to shell out cash to them to find the winners for you, which is sort […]
Last night at Menangle they ran the heats of the sales restricted APG Gold Bullion races. The lack of quality in the APG sales in NSW in recent years has resulted in a corresponding lack of depth and disproportion of ability among the horses eligible to compete for the series, which meant that there were […]
We wrote a story earlier in the week about how you would have almost doubled your money if you had laid every odds-on favourite at the Gloucester Park trots over the past two months. Well the run continues. There were 7 favourites on last night’s card that started in the tomato sauce. Four of them […]
Why is that odds-on favourites so often get beaten at Gloucester Park? It’s uncanny the frequency at which it happens. Since the first of March there have been 76 odd-on shots race at GP. 47 of them have won. 29 have lost. If you had laid every one of these tomato sauced priced horses on […]
A mate of mine owns the horse at the back in the famous Graeme Rogerson colours of blue and green with the red cap. He backed it at $26 to win a new house. I only backed it win a car. Is it any wonder that we both feel sick? Why is that $6.80 each […]
Between the 16th of January 2020 and the 3rd of February 2020, an unnamed but very real punter who we shall call Con Pulsiff deposited $1.1 million into a betting account that he held with PlayUp, who are in my considered view if not the worst corporate bookie in the world, then a pretty damn […]
The problem with young trot trainers who have early success in their career is often threefold. They start to genuinely begin to believe – delude themselves – that its their own innate magical ability to train horses that is winning them all these races, rather than the liquid in the needles that they are shooting […]
