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ADAM HAMILTON reports in today's Melbourne Herald Sun that punters will be the big winners from a Unitab initiative to boost dividends and promote itself to rival TABs and corporate betting shops.

In an Australian first, Unitab, home TAB for Queensland, South Australia and the Northern Territory, is pumping hundreds of thousands of dollars back into win pools to increase dividends.

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COURT reporter TONY KEIM has a story on courier-mail.com.au that a Brisbane jury has been told of a racehorse trainer allegedly enticing a 12-year-old stable hand into an almost 20-month sexual relationship with the promise of giving her a horse he was training.

We reproduce the story courtesy of News Limited, which states:

A District Court in Brisbane was told on Wednesday a man, 61, also allegedly forced the girl into engaging in sexual acts with at least two other men who in return paid him cash for her services.

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RAY HOPPER, the former Shadow Minister for Racing in Queensland, best remembered for his attacks on some prominent racing industry figures under Parliamentary Privilege in ‘Coward’s Castle’, has recently discovered that people who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

Mr Hopper, the LNP Member for Condamine, at the weekend copped some of his own medicine in the Toowoomba Chronicle, courtesy of an obviously disgruntled father-in-law, farmer and Downs racing identity, John Troy.

Here is the story, which we have been requested by several racing people to reproduce courtesy of the Toowoomba Chronicle. It reads:

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RACING Writer SIMON WHITE reports in the ADELAIDE ADVERTISER today that South Australia’s Chief Steward Graham Loch says an inquiry into apparent irregularities in betting for Saturday's Adelaide jockeys' challenge could last three weeks.

The White report, reproduced courtesy of the Advertiser and News Ltd, reads:

Red flags went up at betting agencies when Paul Gatt was backed in from long odds to favoritism at Morphettville.

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THIS web-site continues to listen to what our readers have to say and has introduced a ‘Wednesday Whinge’ where you can express your feelings on racing industry issues of the past week. Just e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Statistics show that ‘letsgohorseracing’ is one of the fastest growing racing web-sites. One of our most read features has been the ‘Queensland Believe It Or Not’ file but readers told us that they wanted it expanded to cover a wider area of the racing world.

HERE is this week’s selection from the e-mail box which mainly covers the Queensland scene:


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IN his popular weekly column ‘SILKS ‘N’ SADDLES’, respected racing writer TERRY BUTTS reports on a racing revolution that is about to occur in the bush.

We reproduce that column, courtesy of one of Australia’s leading rural newspapers, the NORTH QUEENSLAND REGISTER:

THE boys in the bush are getting restless, snorting and pawing the ground. Patience is wearing thin out west. The hardened, weather-weary old racing stalwarts are sick of the big stick being waved by the big city bureaucrats – and Bob Bentley’s Queensland Racing Board.

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THE 2010 Group 1 AAMI Stradbroke Handicap 1400m has attracted 142 nominations and Queensland Racing Limited’s handicapping department has today released the weights for the race.

The nominations include the first four placegetters of last year’s Stradbroke, being Black Piranha, Danleigh, Ortensia and 2008 winner Mr Baritone.

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ADELAIDE, regarded by the majority of big punters as a minefield for short-priced favorites, is at the centre of an inquiry into circumstances surrounding a suspicious plunge on the Jockeys' Challenge last Saturday.

Many punters say they lost confidence betting on South Australian racing long ago and have little faith that anything fruitful will emanate from the inquiry of chief steward, Graham Loch.

Here is the story, written by Craig Cook and run in News Limited publications throughout the country today:

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IT’S ‘Groundhog Day’ for Queensland racing – just when the horses and the people who race, train and ride them should be the focus of attention during the Winter Carnival it is the politics that has stolen the spotlight.

Once again Queensland racing is the butt of many interstate jokes but sadly from a domestic perspective many have given up on the industry in the north. They’ve had a gutful of a Labor Government, a non-event Premier and an ‘I see nothing’ Racing Minister who are not prepared to rein in an out-of-control administration and its chairman.

For the fifth time in a fortnight a major newspaper columnist or editorialist has criticized the Government and Queensland Racing for allowing legislation and a new constitution to be introduced without consultation or without even revealing some of the ‘devil in the detail’ which it is feared will totally remove the rights of clubs and industry stakeholders.

Here is Racing Editor Bart Sinclair’s report from today’s Sunday Mail which so well sums up the situation. It follows critical editorial comment in the Gold Coast Bulletin, Townsville Bulletin, North Queensland Register and Queensland Country Life. Desperate stake-holders are crying for help but the Premier and the Government refuses to listen.

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THE Gold Coast Turf Club has lodged a complaint with Queensland Racing Director of Integrity Operations, Jamie Orchard, alleging a serious breach of confidentiality by QRL chairman, Bob Bentley and suggested to Racing Minister, Peter Lawlor, that he should order the matter be ‘investigated by a competent body.’

The GCTC concerns relate to information contained in a letter to stakeholders by Mr Bentley and posted on the QRL web-site, in which the club alleges confidential information has been released that ‘significantly jeopardizes the commercial bargaining power in regard to parties other than Sky Channel for future GCTC media rights.’

The GCTC letters to the Racing Minister and the QRL Director if Integrity Operations, state:

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