Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Hometown trainer Boris Devcic had two runners in race 6 at Mildura last Friday night. Devcic drove My Ultimate Levi, which was friendless in the betting blowing from $15.00 out to $31.00. Stablemate Noble Trick, driven by Connor Crook, was heavily backed, firming from $9.50 into $4.00. We soon sound out why. Joe Got Rolled […]
It seems we aren’t the only ones who hold the concerns we expressed in our story yesterday about the appointments to senior roles in the Melbourne Racing Club of people with close links to owner activist and Kanga supporter Jonathon Munz. MRC Director Barb Saunders didn’t mention either Munz or Kanga by name when she […]
We have been writing for some time now about what appears to be an ongoing rort with the TAB fixed odds prices. Our contention has been that an insider at the TAB involved in setting the opening markets for the Albion Park trots has been deliberately putting up horses at inflated odds so that someone […]
Dylan Bartolo is an Investigative Steward employed by Greyhound Racing Victoria (GRV), or at least he certainly was as of a fortnight ago. He shouldn’t be. Bartolo is a predator who while a Victorian police officer misused his position in the Family Violence Unit to target vulnerable women with whom he would form sexual relationships. […]
There are an increasing number of Victorian bookmakers who now own or have interests in multiple licenses and brands. Various members of the Cleary clan – the men of whom all bear the middle name of the patriarch Allen – own: Betfocal Juicybet Questbet Titanbet Vicbet Clearybet In addition Lyndon and Nicole Cleary are in […]
Kanga’s announced that the manager of private training center Pinecliff would be employed as a consultant “for the next few months to help us work out the best approach and protocols” to improve the Melbourne Racing Club’s tracks at Caulfield, Sandown and Mornington, coupled with the appointment of Tanya Fullerton as the club’s COO, must […]
Members of the mainstream racing media are reporting that Tom Reilly has been ‘removed’ from his position as CEO of the Melbourne Racing Club. Back in Geebung we called it given the arse. Sacked, fired, kicked out. Contract terminated. Summarily dismissed if you like. History shows that benevolent dictators, even democratically elected ones, are dictators […]
Front Page’s lucky 13 owners have shelled out $90 grand to get a run as a late entrant into the Straddie. Good on ’em. It’s there money and you gotta be in it to win it. Hope reigns supreme. But they’ve done their dough before the race even starts. Front Page wouldn’t get 1400m running […]
It is not often that you have cause to criticize a James McDonald ride, but his steer aboard Belle Detelle in yesterday’s Queensland Derby was one of those rare occasions. What the hell was J-Mac thinking here? He deliberately jagged Belle Detelle back to last from the wide barrier rather than pressing forward to a […]
From time to time at the trots you see drives that are so blatantly hook jobs that you have to scratch your head and wonder how the Stewards missed it, or whether they did and for reasons that remain a mystery just aren’t saying. Danielle Hill’s drive on the favorite The Irishman in the first […]
