Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
How hard is it to read a scale of deductions table correctly? Prideofthebigfish (what a name) was $4.00 in the betting when it was pulled out of race 5 at Boweb as a late scratching on the weekend. Unless I am totally blind rather than just partuially vision impaired, that should have meant deductions of […]
I am not suggesting that 21-year-old reinsman Lucas Rando drove the even money favorite Gandalf dead in the 4th race at Newcastle last, or that his steer night was anything other than above board. I am sure that it was. But if you ever wanted to show someone how to drive a horse to get […]
… except when he’s marching straight ahead to the Stewards room The mail out of Newcastle is that Emilio Rosati, the owner of the pacer Destiny Stride that went down at $1.35 last night while carried a $300 000 bet on its back, was far from impressed with the contribution of some of the other […]
Ladbrokes have this quite unique feature on its app where all wagers placed with the bookmaker are published in live time as they are placed. The names aren’t shown but the bets are. This one was spotted by an eagle-eyed reader last night. It’s a 100 percent fair dinkum bet. $300 000 on a threes […]
If you had been silly enough to take the $1.35 about Aquaholic in the 2-year-old Maiden at Ipswich yesterday you would have started feeling nauseous at the 1000 metre mark when he started pulling his head off, and become more and more ill with every metre further the race went. Aquaholic pulled it self into […]
Well that didn’t take long did it? I wonder how Dame Nellie Cobbler found out that you can only have 5 horses in a parlay on the TAB? Ha ha ha. Warning! Warning! Problem gambler.
You might remember Nick ‘the Cobbler’ Cataldi, the humble shoe repair from Sydney living in the back of his shop whose world turned around when he fluked a long priced multi one Sunday afternoon at a provincial gallops meeting in Albany, WA that landed him a return of almost $700 000, which bought the Cobbler […]
A bloke I once knew was a senior investment advisor at the Port of Brisbane. The Commissioner we used to call him, because he used to kick around the track with huge wads of cash and give everyone the impression that he was a smartie, and he was arrogant about it too, as punt drunk […]
Let me share with you a story that was in The Sunday Mail on March 16, 1997. Peter Hinterdorfer was 34 and lived on debt. He struggled to support his wife and two year old son. He was an accountant for the Port of Brisbane Corporation. Peter achieved one of the state’s biggest gambling-related heists by stealing […]
A former Canterbury harness racing trainer spent more than 2 million dollars online gambling before filing for bankruptcy. Mitchell Paul Kerr has been sentenced to five months of home detention for misleading statements and withholding information while filing for bankruptcy. Kerr, whose licence was cancelled by the Judicial Control Authority for Racing, concealed crucial details […]
