The Toughest Beat in the World
Saintly Rose was backed from $15 into $10 in the third at Terang today. She was home at the 100m mark. And then this happened. Is it any wonder that all horse players die broke?
Gee it Was Hot in Brisbane Last Night – And It’s Just Getting Hotter by the Hour
Race 8 at Albion Park last night. The pre-post favourite is owned in by our old mates from Summit Bloodstock and Luke McCarthy, and is trained and driven by the McCarthy’s man in the north Ricky Thurlow, all three mates of the Albion Park CEO. It’s name is Shadow Minister, and it is drawn in […]
Leon and T-Rex Roar Again
We have written on numerous occasions about the extraordinary winning strike rate of horses owned by former Harness Racing NSW boss Rex Horne and his friend and sometime trainer Leon Jurd when they backed as if there is no tomorrow. In these stories we’ve also noted how rare it is for horses owned by the […]
The Nation is Wide, and It’s People Stand Tall
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 […]
The Modern Face of Reconciliation
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 […]
The Fortunate One
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 […]
A Real Weird Night it Was at Bathurst
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. […]
The US Federal Court Throws the Cat Among the Miami Punting Pigeons
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 […]
How Would We Know?
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 […]
How to Launder 200 Large in Three Easy Bets
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 […]