Tag Archives: NSW racing
THE LACK OF LEADERSHIP ISSUE
By Keyser Soze JUST GET AN ALL WEATHER TRACK IN ALREADY! For how much longer can NSW racing tolerate the stubborn refusal of Racing NSW and its despotic hierarchy to enter the modern age and install two or three all … Continue reading
THE LOSING BIG AND THE CORPORATES AFFAIR ISSUE
By Keyser Soze TELEVISION NETWORKS SET TO LOSE BIG ON WAGERING REGULATION… To apply a racing analogy, the contraction of the corporate wagering operators market is a “Certainty”, as we have predicted in recent editions. The shrinking of the market … Continue reading
THE DON’T TAKE ANYTHING FOR TROY GRANTED ISSUE
By Keyser Soze TIME FOR ACTION, TROY! Thanks to its cantankerous neighbours down south in bleak city, NSW racing has enjoyed an unwanted and unnecessarily extended honeymoon period escaping the blow torch which MUST be applied to its expanding belly. … Continue reading
THE HOUSE THAT GAI BUILT ISSUE
The news that Tulloch Lodge has been sold to Hong Kong interests, and first reported here last week, has surprisingly met with a roaring silence in the land of Oz with some racing writers and unnecessarily nervous Nellie owners contacting … Continue reading
THE BIBS AND BOBS AND SPINNING OUTTA CONTROL ISSUE
By Keyser Soze in Australia MORE SYCOPHANTIC PROPAGANDA ON NSW RACING He’s NSW racing’s “reliable man”. The NSW limited rag – the Daily Smellygraph’s Racing Editor Ray Thomas, always ready and willing to hit the keyboard and talk up and … Continue reading
THE FORWARD LOOKING ISSUE
TIME TO TAKE A STAND ON ISSUES THAT MATTER The confused and dysfunctional landscape that racing in Australia finds itself engulfed in has never been more obvious. Racing’s responses to some of the most fundamental and critical issues facing the … Continue reading
THE BARE ARSED MURKY FONC ISSUE
NSW COBALT SAGA GETS EVEN MORE MURKY (IF THAT’S POSSIBLE) Yesterday’s hearings into the Sam Kavanagh, pictured below, cobalt positives got into even more murky territory with the level of sensational evidence and allegations making even the most rational and … Continue reading
THE ENTIRE COUNTRY ISSUE
WHY NSW RACING NEEDS TO GO UP THE COUNTRY (LIKE CANNED HEAT) Never in their delirious states of optimistic delusion could The Boffins of Druitt Street (good name for a reality TV series), have ever imagined the traction and success … Continue reading
THE DUH ISSUE
IS TABCORP ASLEEP AT THE WHEEL? When it comes to marketing, communications and customer relations, Australia’s biggest totalisator operator Tabcorp leaves much to be desired. And that’s being kind to the wagering giant. Having allowed itself to be successfully ambushed … Continue reading
“CHUMPIONSHIP” WEEK AND RACING VICTORIA’S (YAWN) NEW STRATEGIC PLAN
MIXED RESPONSES TO CASH SPLURGE There’s been a stark contrast in private and public response to the last week’s cash splurge for Championship Week – NSW racing’s own resurrection shuffle. Publicly, it’s been so much like a typical Sydney peak … Continue reading