The Mug is off on a sojourn to the capital of the free world, Washington DC. For the bulk of the trip, the Mug will be staying in Bethesda, Maryland (yep, the chicken). Maryland just happens to be the home one of the bastions of US racing, Pimlico racetrack, which is home to […]

Categories: The Venue

The onset of winter is the only hope on the horizon for the Mug.  What has in past years been a lucrative carnival (Sydney - think County Tyrone / Miss Finland / Perfectly Ready) has been an absolute slaughter this year.  And to top it off the litany of quaddie failures continues  to grow, including:
Filling […]

Categories: The Punt

For a couple of hours in the rain-soaked Melbourne mid-afternoon, the Lomond was the venue for the Mug, DJ and the George. And ordinary punting was matched by an out of the ordinary venue.
The Lomond is definitely one of the stranger mixes in a pub tab. On the inner fringes of northern Melbourne, […]

Categories: The Venue

Almost a day fails to go by where there isn’t a story that underlines the frailty of racing. Poor old He’s No Pie Eater. Bred to become the next super sire, cleaning up all in his path over 2000m, landing the Mug some respite from what has been on the whole a […]

Categories: The Horse

The Mug’s deadset favourite horse came back yesterday and in an unsuitable run, still showed that he has what it takes to win another couple of million before the curtain comes down.  At the turn it still somehow seemed possible that the Target could win, but not having had a run for so long and […]

Categories: The Horse

The Sydney carnival has finished and it couldn’t come quick enough.  While it was great to see Haradasun string together a few wins - even while almost running into the grandstand -  I just couldn’t seem to pick my nose.  3 more quaddies down the toilet (2 of the 3 with the obligatory 3 legs […]

Categories: The Punt

The Mug was keen on a couple of specials today, only to open up the early odds and find they’d gone from $11 to $2.50. Why can’t the early press get something like the odds right? Other than a couple of scratchings, which I can understand, the general level of accuracy is very […]

Categories: The Tipster

The Moreland has been a staple punting venue for a few years now.  It has, in many ways provided a benchmark against which other inner suburban pub tabs can be measured.
On a Saturday afternoon, the streets around it can double as the cab rank for Rod Laver Arena after a Fleetwood Mac gig.  It serves […]

Categories: The Venue

A splinter Mug crew made the trip down the coast this weekend, deciding there was no better way to spend a sunny Saturday afternoon than inside the only local pub tab…
The layout quarantined the hard-core local punters - mostly ruddy, bearded seafolk - to an unrenovated space out back, albeit amply equipped with requisite betting […]

Categories: The Venue

Deane Lester is the World’s Greatest Tipster. On 33 $1 win bets, the WGT lost $7.30 while the Mug lost $7.90. The Noodle reigns with bank interest of 25c for the month.
That is a whopping 25% of turnover down the toilet. There’s no doubt that this might even out over the years […]

Categories: The Tipster