perko
Just got back from the Birdsville Races , fielded there as a bush bookie , Drove in on the Bedourie Road through driving rain the last 200kms and got in on Thursday morning - shut all roads in that arvo. Racetrack is located 3 kms south of Birdsville on a claypan sitting between sandhills . Track got 55 mm off rain on it Thursday arvo and night and looking at it on Friday parts of it had 1 metre of floodwater over it in several parts off it , in fact it looked like a shallow lake. Well no racing this weekend everyone thought except for the Birdsvillians . On Friday morning Diamantina Shire works foreman Trevor ''Colgate '' Stewart jumped in his excavator and proceded to drain the track , how , well this how it happened . 20 metres inside the inside running rail he digs 20 odd 3 metre deep holes through the sunbaked top of the claypan into a sandy base , then he digs a 1 metre deep trench back to the running rail which drain the water back to the 3 metre trenches which never fill up , they act like sinkholes and by late Friday arvo the track had not a drop off water on it but 3 inches of muddy clay remained over the entire circumference. Saturday his work crew graded the entire track and front end loaders and bobcats dumped the muddy clay over the inside running rail . A few hours of Sunday sun and wind and by 11am you got a lightning fast bush dirt track entirely safe for racing . Throw in the 3000 who made it out to Birdsville , Josh Flemmings call , close hard bush racing , 11 bookies who bet down by jump time to 115 % , characters everywhere [ Peter Moody/ Fred Brophy who are treated like royalty out here] haggling bookies for top odds and what you get is a pounding exiting race atmosphere not often seen on racetracks in Australia , a must get to meeting for any racing enthusiast . PS Betting 1/3 and 1/4 place odds in 115% jump prices saw the place % under 200 and 300 in all 11 races , can see why most books have gone to 1/4 and 1/5 these days , won handily on the win betting but done a fair bit on the place component as the margin in it was to looking figures, highly competitive betting ring at the the Big Shed on the Sand dune
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No , Sorry Falc , just me being a sunday night dickhead . Sorry for having a go at you .
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Just a bit of goss , 500 payers through the gate at the Combe Falcon for the Willowie Cup , how many at Belmont yesterday. 500 at Stamford [200 km north of longreach] the week before . Qld backblocks doing ok .Bedourie Camel Cup [ think of Wiluna …
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Wags seems like you've got tons of experience around horses , I've just got in from the Boulia races today and one trainer come 600 kms with her team of horses . I got there a couple of hours before the first and watched the stables and most of our …
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If guilty Bill and Robbie come to mind - warn em off for a long long holiday.
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Thank God the Rousey hype is finally over , had young fellas at work telling me straight faced that this women is unbeatable and that she would easily out fight Floyd Mayweather in any type of fighting if they ever fought . Cant believe the Aussie a…
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This is a bit out of left field and a 1000/1 longshot to ever happen again but racing lost a huge opportunity of gaining new converts especially new trainers and owners when they let breeders push out and ban quarterhorse races on bush racetracks in…
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Bookielovers right , why would any joe average punter go to any non carnival race meeting in any capital city - theres no incentive or sane reason why in 2015 for a joe blow punter to go to the track , spend a couple of hours getting there and home …
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F me dead , a 2 and a 1/6 day test , where was the uncovered rain affected sticky wicket of the past to account for this , for crying out loud give me the 1972 ashes side who at least had a F go .just my 1 cents worth .
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selectors gotta go , stuffed it up worse than the players
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Are you's sure - Perko from QLD here that has been on cold turkey for live Vic racing for the last 7 weeks..
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How many Bookies fielding at Canarvan today
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Dont care much about serious punters banned by Corps - easy solution just go to the track and bet with on course bookies - better value , better service , will let you get on with a cash bet, TOO EASY .
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Anyone at the Kal meeting yesterday - how many bookies fielding.
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Mayweather won the ''fight'' but in horse racing terms it was a 1/2 length win or AFL it would be 116 - 112 with the winning side scoring 4 behinds more. He never hurt or dominated Manny at any time and at the end of the fight most people were left …
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I'm with you JJ , could not believe stewarts dimissed protest . Read stewarts report on protest twice and still cant believe it , just moved out and smashed 2nd horse at 500 mark and stipes say like nothing in it - had to be a nose at absolute mini…
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How many bookies turned up at at Narro today .
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What size crowd turned up at Ascot on Perth Cup day and how many bookies fielded on course .
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Thanks for all that top info Bookielover , yeah have done all my research on Brissy as I have a house at Stafford heights , been to Eagle Farm , Doomben , Ipswich and Caloundra twice in the last 18 months to do some research [ mainly standing all d…
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That just our local races Brads , bet all the calls from down south and our ring regulary bets under 100 per for Sydney and Melbourne if you take the best odds off all of us . Got 3 highly cashed up opinion bookies [ not me] who will bet you to los…
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Yeah bookielover , 4 Bookies up here , I'm the smallest holder at each meeting as I've just started out . Ring leader on Mount Isa cup day held 48 large and I held 12 large betting on 7 locals and 8 brissy races . Ring leader has 3 clerks working fo…
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Hi Bookielover , thanks for the helpful advice , Work the western qld circuit - 40 odd meetings a year out here with a 2 and a half month break for the wet season , 35,000 km travelling , mount isa , winton , cloncurry , bedourie , richmond , cammo…
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Bookielover , mate i'm a bush bookie up here in Qld . Looking for oportunities to field . What do you know about Professional Gift Running bookmaking - ie Stawell Gift . How many bookies would turn up at Stawell at Easter and what would a medium siz…
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Live racing Falcs , surfing the net and come across yous - seemed to objective with spiritive debating with no trolling - said thats for me .
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Already got a couple of houses falcs , yeah could stay in the bush doing 40 meets a year [ bush cups , camel racing and betting on rodeos - bull riding ] betting anywhere each race from 140 - 160 % and bank a easy 50 large each year after exs for t…
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Bookielover , mate new to forum here . Just enquiring about the bookie situation in Perth at moment - how many field on Saturdays at Headquarters and what sort of money would they hold outside of the Carnival meets on a Saturday - rails and paddock…
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Thinking about putting it to our committee here in the Isa , looked alright for a bush track - like ours.What do they pull down the running rail after meetings end and use the straight as part of the sports fields or something like that.
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New to forum , whats the go with Port Headlands track , turf in the straight , dirt town the back and side.