Anyone remember "Destreos" ??
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Anyone remember "Destreos" ??
The Hunter Valley is along way from Tassie, Danno, but I can smell the stench from across Bass Straight.
This has been a long time coming and it has arrived solely due to Tas Racing's and the Tasmanian Government's failure to act. Failure to act and subsequent cover-ups become the story, unfortunately.
Nothing on the 7:30 Report tonight, either. Just pumping the tyres on animal activists at the expense of pork producers and The Headmistress bullying the state opposition leader.
In the meantime:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-...ions/102148132
The Office of Racing Integrity (ORI) might now get the hint that people expect more from them - the Minister 'now' seems to (amazing what a bit of adverse media prompts)
if you prefer the video version to avoid reading it can be found here. Runs for almost 5 mins.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-...able/102147648
This is a video version of the original ABC story but not as comprehensive (It is not the latest news posted by Showgrounds)
Haven't fact checked so taking on face value. 92% increase in punting on Tas harness in past decade.
All Yole/Yole-connected money? Have to think there would be some drop-off from rank and file and pro punters with Yole dominating race fields, so I'd love to know how much Yoles are punting.
I think there are a lot more pro punters out there than we realize. I would doubt it would be anywhere near half Yole money - you don't bet just to win back your own money. At a HRA microsoft teams meeting I was surprised to hear a pro who has followers say his gang bet $500k a week across all codes (I think that was it - if I was home I could check my notes) and he said it as if they were just medium players