Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
17-year-old Australian basketball phenom Sitaya Fagan has been all over the news this week after signing a scholarship deal to play college ball for the University of Southern California. https://www.basketball.com.au/news/aussies-in-the-ncaa-sitaya-fagan-joins-college-basketball-powerhouse-usc What has not been widely reported is how much the kid is being paid to play for USC. College basketball is nominally an amateur sport, […]
McKendrick was the odds-on favorite to win race 4 at Addington on Wednesday, which was no huge surprise for while its not the strongest horse in the world it was a natural leader drawn in gate 2 and dropping back in class to a race that was very weak. With a slowish beginner drawn inside […]
Archie The biggest thing is below with bookies who hold multiple licenses- – A person who self-excludes or takes a break from one brand can simply open a new account with another brand. – If they hit a deposit limit on one brand, they can bypass it by depositing fresh limits on another. – If […]
I can have Louprint? I’ll take him with bells on! Larry sit parked outside Louprint and crush him? Turn it up, Larry would barely see which way he went off the gate, never mind catch up to him to sit parked and crush him. Larry lacks gatespeed, Louprint doesn’t, he didn’t use it in that […]
A few readers have been asking why all of Kiwi trainer Chris McDowell’s team have been scratched from Addington today. It is nothing nefarious or controversial. Apparently the McDowell became aware that the horses had eaten something with their paddock feed that had the potential to send the horses over the top and record a […]
I am old enough to remember when the Call of the Card night before Melbourne Cup day was a huge event jam packed with wall to wall punters and bookies, including all the biggest names in the game. How times have changed. This year only four bookies are fielding at the Call of the Card, […]
Former QLD Racing Minister Grace ‘GeeGee” Grace didn’t know a whole lot about the Sport of Kings, but she did come to the job with a deep understanding of arbitration after spending decades as a union official, and her initiative to create the Racing Appeals Panel will stand forever as one of the greatest decisions […]
Belle From Burnie reckons the US 3-year-old Louprint is the best pacer in the world. After the superstar son of Sweet Lou ran 1.46.6 to win a division of the Grade 2 Tattersalls Pace at the Red Mile on the weekend most US pundits agree, with all 35 judges unanimously voting him no 1 in […]
They say that everyone has a Doppelanger somewhere in the world. John Kanga’s is just up the road in Sydney. His name is Malcolm. He used to be the PM. Kanga and he have more in common than looks. Malcolm didn’t last very long either.
If there is one bloke in the world I would not like to be it is the Protected Witness giving evidence at the committal hearing of nine men charged with the murder of career criminal and ex-Mongol bikie gang member Shane Bowden. The reason that I wouldn’t like to be Protected Witness is not just […]
