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Betting Wrap
Hurdles champion Edwin Moses was once attributed with saying “I don’t really see the hurdles. I sense them like a memory.” Trick was Edwin did it so many times he could just count the strides. Punting’s different. You can “lose your strides”; “get into stride”; “get up in the last stride”; “stride past them with a leg in the air” but first of all “you gotta have strides on before you can pull them up.” We thought we’d lost ours for a while, but as usual the week was a bit of ying and yang, though we got yanged on the neddies. Soccer: Soccer has been in the news for lots of the wrong reasons. Terry Venables under pressure, Mark Viduka talking about stuff that doesn’t need to be aired in the press and Soccer Australia going through its monthly upheaval. They all paled into ‘so what’s?’ for one punter this week who had a dip at the goal tally in the Man United/Liverpool clash at Anfield. Six thousand big ones at the 1.95 under 2.5 goals trickled through Liverpool keeper Jerzy Dudek’s legs at the 64 minute mark from a team mate’s back pass. Final score 2-1. Youch! Blackburn Rovers moved clear of Fulham on the Premier League ladder with a 2-1 victory and nice return for a client who had $15000/5000. Another punter had the nous to go with Northern Spirit on Friday night to the tune on $5000 at the $2.50 in their upset 2-1 win over Melbourne Knights. Coach of the Knights subsequently declared his team don’t like it too hard, interesting to see which way that spur goes in coming matches. Racing: Years ago there was a legendary small punter called Reg Sparkes. Reg could get you anything, get you on anything, get on anything a shade over the odds and had the endearing habit of ‘Mooing’ when he rang for a bet. He reckoned that bookies were milking cows for blokes like him. All you needed was soft hands. Reg came back to mind at the Wodonga Cup meeting on Sunday when Brian Cox trained Mooball won the Cup by half a neck and landed a welter of bets including a standout $15,000 at $2.80. Cox only lost the Spring Carnival trainers trophy on countback to John Hawkes when he produced 3 winners from 5 starters at Flemington and on Sunday made a meal of it with 5 winners at Wodonga, 4 favourites and one second favourite. Depending which end of the phone you were on, Saturday was also a bit of a banquet. Up in Brisbane $20,000 at 3.50 Devil landed race five. Third in the race was Road to Heaven and there wasn’t a footprint laid on it. The Gold Coast caused a bookie blackout in race 9 with Semagic landing a number of wagers, amongst them $15,000 at the 5.50. Melbourne trainer Mick Cerchi is placing Silver Birch beautifully and now looking for bigger things. The horse reportedly has 21 screws holding a soft hoof together so would have appreciated the Strathayr surface in a bulldog effort to land twenty thousand dollars at best fluc on 3.00. A few came unstuck. We were singing along with Manfred Mann when $7000 x 7000 went unplaced on Quin the Eskimo and then in Sydney $15,000 each way at 5.50 on Stoway found the 60 kg too much puddin’ and Steven King followers were left lamenting when Regent Street was unplaced in race 7, money came from every corner and 10,000 from one punters kick who normally knows how things might pan out. Golf: Like soccer, golf’s been on the front pages. Last week the greens, this week John Daly tries that old Red Indian trick of stunning fish when he let a club fly into the lake. Then the title goes to joint winners for the first time in Australian Golf. Congratulations to Peter Lonard and Jarrod Mosely, but The Shark reckons it was the wrong decision and the punters who came for Adam Baddeley, including $1000 at 15.00 and $800 at 14.00 were left holding the flag in the dark after two blistering first rounds. Cricket: Apparently someone got their nose out of joint last week cos we called the Poms, Poms. Tablets are in the mail. But if anybody was looking for tablets promising a quick fix, you’d have to think it was our punter who invested $6,000 hard earned on the 3rd Test ending on the 4th Day. England could only bat 8 in their second innings and though the two injured players, Silverwood and Tudor aren’t known for their batting, Alec Stewart was going all right on 66 not out and maybe they should look at that true Aussie backyard tradition of “last man gets his tucker” in such scenarios. The queue was long for the series bettors, when Australia went 3 -0 up to win its 8th consecutive Ashes series. There was plenty of Mum’s and Dad’s money and a few larger piggy banks spilled out with $16,000 at the 1.06; $5,000 at the same; $16666 at 1.12 and $5000 at 1.12; $10,000 got the cheque in the mail at 1.28 but two very ambitious bets, or a bit of early game posturing of $1000 the visitors at 15.00 and another grand at 17.00 were surrendered with nary a flourish. NBL: A ‘stripout’ someone in the office called it. Punters came for Adelaide at the -3 and they snuck in by 5 against Townsville, rebounding one punters six thousand back with interest and Melbourne made a meal of Canberra with a 15 point margin in their 100 – 85 win which made the $6,000 at -4 the Tigers look as safe as Barings Bank when it was going good.
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