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It has to be said. I really don’t want to see another race like the 2013 Shootout again. I certainly can’t recall one like it...

A long while ago The Bulletin ran a cartoon with two tramps sitting on a park bench looking out through the trees towards the skyscrapers...

The biggest surprise in last Thursday’s Adelaide Cup was not that local star Ernie Bung Arrow won but that he paid more on the local...

Late night shoppers in the Eastern states might be in for a surprise in a couple of months when WA goes live with its conversion...

Ominous signs continue to appear about the structure of greyhound racing in this country. At risk are the smaller states and the smallest TAB operation....

It’s not easy being a punter. In years past I can recall knowing only two who regularly made good money at it. There were lots...

Just before an election is a funny time for minority parties to start an inquiry into greyhound racing but that’s what the NSW Upper House...

I suggested the Nationals might be a bit mucky, and so it turned out. Tomac Bale did well in the Sprint but cleaned up Zulu...

Building a statue of Bart Cummings was a nice touch. But be careful – the next one could be of the last remaining punter. Where...

Sometimes things continue just because they have always been there. No particular reason, no review or justification. Place betting is one such. Frankly, it is...

The NSW National Coursing Association is now officially gone, dead and buried. The GBOTA will take the licences over for a few months while GRNSW...

Last week (in Part 1) we pointed out that betting, the lifeblood of the racing industry, was under pressure following the steady drop in the...

Racing finances are messy, even risky. One clue (not that we needed it) came on reading a Sydney Morning Herald commentary on the NSW state...

In a surprise decision, Queensland stewards have let punters Steve and Matthew Brunker and Brady Canty off the hook following an investigation into the running...

In a precedent-setting decision, the Northern Territory Racing Commission has ruled that sometime owner-punter Michael Brunker breached his obligations in the way he placed a...

Some really strange developments are appearing on the scene. They fall into the “who are those guys” category. Betting turnover is the query. Last week,...

I think I have said before that if you haven’t got a good idea yourself, then pinch one from somewhere else. Roy Masters of the...

With the Waterhouses’ battles at Randwick now drawing to a close – Gai still has one issue to discuss with the stewards – it’s timely...

I am certainly not a poker machine player but the other day, on leaving the club, the weight of 20 cent coins in my pocket...

David Beckham is retiring at 38 years of age. His former teammate at Manchester, Ryan Giggs, is even older and still going strong. Ricky Ponting...

This cannot be allowed to go on forever. A Commission of Inquiry into Queensland racing, just announced by the state’s attorney-general, represents the fourth such...

Anzac Day was certainly an interesting time for racing, or at least the night was. With some help from the diggers, early races pulled in...

Queensland racing, about which much has been written here and elsewhere, is about to be hamstrung by the most peculiar set of management structures seen...

Racing seems to have a gift of shooting itself in the foot. In case you didn’t know, corporate bookmakers (which presumably means those in the...

Credibility into the Queensland Hall of Fame. Great stuff! Not before time. In my fair dinkum punting days the 1992 Winfield Challenge at Beaumont Park...