Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
We appreciate that we’re starting to sound like a broken record, but it’s not our fault it’s his. By he we mean Australia’s most suspended apprentice jockey Dan McGillivray, who was sent on yet another holiday by the Stewards at the Gold Coast yesterday. This time the persistent rules breaker wasn’t outed for careless riding […]
There is no club in the world that can stuff things up like the Auckland Trotting Club can, and no Stewards who can allow them to do it so badly either. Race 6 at Auckland was the feature event of the night, the $30 000 final of the Woodlands Stud-Silk Road Northern Series. The race […]
Over the past few months we have highlighted a number of issues with Terry Bailey’s race calling. All trains stop at the same station. The one called Retirement. Listen to this Barry Crocker from Terry the Saint last night at Pakenham and tell us you disagree.
Gloucester Park has a few problems if their CEO Michael ‘Boo’ Radley can’t remember the name of the development company headed by their former Vice-President Kevin Jeavons son Kyle that the club sold $60 million worth of prime Swan riverside land to without a public tender for $10 million paid in five yearly instalments of […]
This below is the information being circulated to members by the club about the proposed sale of club land. Read and digest it, and we will throw you a few extra questions soon. What are Members being asked to vote for? The GPHR Executive Committee has begun a formal process under the Club’s by-laws to […]
Sam Kilkenny has publicly admitted that he dipped into First Light Racing’s lolly jar to get a punting bank, and it seems all but certain that he had his hand in the till at the accountancy firm that he used to direct too, hence him being given two to the valley by the numbers nerds […]
The word out of Soviet South-East Queensland is that following publication of our story this morning about punter David ‘Baldy’ Frolley getting marched off the course at Ipswich a few weeks ago, the Ipswich CEO ‘Racin’ Nathan Exelby was inspired to pick up the phone and beg Baldy to come back to the course, and […]
We’ve had to decline PVL’s very generous offer of VIP tickets to the Everest this year, and we won’t be jumping the car park fence to get into Caulfield for the Cup like we used to back in the day. I’m just too busy to be making the big trek south, for the barra are […]
Bigcat was the $1.50 favorite in race 4 at Mackay yesterday, and carried the weight of most punters money. The horse was listed as racing without blinkers as it had at its two previous QLD starts. Punters around Australia placed their bets in what they believed to be the certainty that Bigcat would once […]
By Stephen Drill, Herald Sun 18 October 2024 Sportsbet allowed an accountant to burn through millions despite claiming it has “game changing real time intervention” to stop problem gambling. Sam Kilkenny torched $8 million on Sportsbet, PointsBet and Ladbrokes betting accounts before he self excluded. At least $4 million of that punting plunge was lost […]
