Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Clayton Tonkin rolled another 2yo off his production line last Friday night at Shepparton that could prove to be the number 1 juvenile in his team. Always Hot was the horse’s name. It won on debut beating the high classs 3-time winner from the Aaron Dunn stable Forty Love. That wasn’t the best of it […]
By Peter Davis In the wagering landscape of increasing taxation, punters seek value and many look to open accounts with new players but there is a catch. A successful and well-known Victorian punter has a story to tell and his circumstance would not be isolated. “I only bet on greyhound racing and Minimum Bet Limits […]
On the 5th of December last year trot trainer Emma Stewart was disqualified for 6 months after Stewards caught her race-day treating two horses by drenching them with something that she says was saline, but the Stewards say – quite correctly in my view – contained a perfomance enhancing substance. Stewart appealed the decision and […]
Never fear, Saint Gil will fix it. If he ever gets there. His tram must have been delayed.
Many readers have been asking where former trot broadcaster Jason Bonnington has been since he lost his job with Harness Racing Victoria, and now we have the answer. He’s been away for a long while, but Bonno’s back! Direct to you from his lounge room doing a podcast called Tongue Tie Off with his fellow […]
You’d have to suspect that former greyhound trainer Laurie Rounds has more than a few problems dealing with authority. Last year Rounds went ballistic when a pre-entry inspection of one of his dogs he wanted to put into the Gap program was cancelled due to concerns abut the greyhound’s vaccination status, and threatened to shoot […]
Mr Garry Selkrig is a suspended GRV participant. Mr Selkrig has been a registered owner, breeder and public trainer of greyhounds since 1985. He was licensed by Greyhound Racing Victoria and bound by the Greyhounds Australasia Rules. At the time of the alleged offences the registered kennel address was 1 Worthy Road, Devon Meadows, where […]
We first met the corporate bookmaker Baggybet (real name Mailbag Wagering Pty Ltd) back in October last year when we wrote about how the company then owned by tips spruiker Jack Dickens and the Chairman of the Australian and Victorian Bookmakers Associations Chris Lester was fined $82 620 by the NT Gaming Commission for breaches […]
A number of readers have been asking us who exactly these co-Chairmen of the VBA are. As we don’t know them personally, we cannot tell you first hand, but what we can do for you is to use their professional Linkedin profiles to give you a picture. Chris Lester (pictured at top) started his business […]
I got so excited about the prospect of the gun young up and coming kid Tasymn Potter kicking home a winner for Andy Gath on Outlaw Man at her metropolitan driving debut at Melton tonight that I forget to tell you that she had a second steer too. That one was in race 4, when […]
