After last week’s omen bet, the Mug was casually glancing through the form guide and Friday and in the same race, Morphetville R7 Saturday, the same horse number, 12, is racing a horse named Sweet Julia.  This happens to be the name of the Mug’s beautiful wife, so another omen bet is on.  Sweet Julia […]

Categories: The Punt

Sitting at the PubTab yesterday, I was informed by regular punting companion DJ of a great omen bet at Morphetville.  The Mug has a daughter that goes by the regular name of Sassy (short for Saskia).  In Race 7 yesterday at Morphetville, there was a regular Victorian country horse called Sassy Seniorita running around.  As […]

Categories: The Punt

DJ and the Mug went on a new adventure today - The Albion Charles in Northcote.  Walking in to the Albion Charles means business.  There is no other reason for the existence of this place than to punt and drink.  While there is a pokies area, it is the only PubTab I’ve been to thus […]

Categories: The Venue

I noticed in the paper this morning the markets had been published for the big races at Ascot later in the month.  It was a little surprising to see that TAB Sportsbet (hereafter known as The Thiefs) were quoting the Mug’s favourite horse, Takeover Target, at $5.5 (9/2 in the old language) when all I’d […]

Categories: The Soapbox · The Sheisters

I’m sure Cold Chisel must have thought about this as a song title.  We have genuinely pinged 3 legs and 2nd by a fu#$ng neck or less 4 of the last 6 weeks.  This weeks included another $16 winner in the kitbag.  Scenic Assault (our one out) pinged because Sebastian Murphy ….. well, I was […]

Categories: The Quaddie

For a few years now, I’ve been a follower of “The Punter”. It is an anonymous column that seems to appear randomly in the sport section of the Saturday Age. It appears most weeks during the big carnivals in Melbourne and then sporadically throughout the rest of the year - not even […]

Categories: The Punt · The Tipster

Last Saturday was the closest the favourite-hugging lawyer and the Mug have come to a big score on the quaddie. So close, in fact, that it’s taken me almost a week to commit the fateful day to print.
I think before the tale of woe, it’s worth a recap on the history of the mugpunter […]

Categories: The Quaddie