Submission - Part 1 - Gambling Licences Review

Submission - Part 2 - Annexures A - E

THE dominance of Japanese staying horses was again evidenced last weekend when local superstar Deep Impact romped away with the Japan Cup in Tokyo leaving bookmaker Michael Eskander on the wrong side of the ledger with punters.

              Operations spokesman Michael Horne said it had been their intention to lay the favorite Deep Impact. “We bet odds of $1.70 and punters kept on taking the quote and he started at $1.65 with us.

              “ But the result was never in doubt and it was a bad result for us. It took the shine off what we won when Marasco was beaten in Perth last Saturday,” Horne said.

              Marasco, described as an aspiring weight-for-age galloper from the Fred Kersley stable, was attempting to qualify for a gain a start in this week’s Railway Stakes at Ascot and was sent out a hot favorite in the Peters Stakes.

              But from an inside barrier, the gelding was denied any galloping room in the final 600 metres and finished ninth, but just over three lengths from the winner Always A Devil.

              Marasco had been heavily supported in Railway Stakes early betting and had firmed from $4.2 to $4 favoritism. But it now looks likely the galloper will be given a let-up and prepared for the Australian Cup in the autumn, which next year will be staged at Caulfield as Flemington’s track is under reconstruction.

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              STILL on racing and “early bird” punters should start checking the odds for the 2007 big three events, the Caulfield Cup, Cox Plate and Melbourne Cup.

              The prices are available on michaeleskander.com with Victoria Derby winner, Efficient, at $14 favorite for the Caulfield Cup ahead of VRC Oaks winner, Miss Finland and Pompeii Ruler, who finished a close third behind Fields Of Omagh in this year’s Cox Plate.

              Miss Finland is $10 and at the top of the quotes for the Cox Plate, while Efficient is equal second favorite at $11 with El Segundo. The exciting Haradasun is $13, so is Pompeii Ruler and Sydney mare Aqua D’Amore is at $17.

              In the Melbourne Cup Efficient is $14 favorite with this year’s third placegetter, Maybe Better, sharing second spot with Pop Rock and Zipping. Check the site for all other odds.

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              Gary Walsh’s globalsportsbet.com.au caters for fans of the US basketball and gridiron sports with odds about all head to head matches in the NBA. Straight out and line betting is available and in gridiron he is betting on week 12 of the competition and the website also has prices for next year’s Superbowl series.

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              THE AFL competition is never far from punter’s minds and normshort.com.au is betting on next year’s Grand Final quinella as well as the outcome of the season.

              In quinella betting Short has the West Coast Eagles and Adelaide favorites at $12. West Coast and Fremantle are $14 and the same quote is available for West Coast and Sydney and West Coast and Sydney.

              West Coast and Western Bulldogs is next at $16 but the website has all the remaining combinations.

              In Grand Final betting West Coast is still at the top of the table at $5. Adelaide is second fancy at $7, then Fremantle $8; St. Kilda $9 and Western Bulldogs at $11.

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              Short’s odds about the Davis Cup are Russia at $1.38 and Argentina at $3.0.