I bought the dog off Boards as a racedog and gave him to David Breen, who was living at Appin at the time.

As luck would have it the dog had had a start at 12+ months of age, at canberra. Seems they'd been desperate for noms, and took anything including a dog who hadnt been broken in properly, he of course ran last.

Now dave was as canny as any trainer, and noticed the start, and said " I like this dog already". He got some friends from Canberra to nom the dog for Appin, and come and handle him. From memory(and i might have some details wrong) he was 8/1 into Mark Merlino pleading dont hurt me, went straight to the lead and improved.

One of my fav stories is Kedos Oscar.

Roy Heath was on 20% of punting wins, and as you know nothing stimulates thought like money, and Roy did plenty of thinking every morning when he walked his dogs.

Well we'd got a bit of a bad name as a punting kennel, and those filthy bookies were sending us out a little short, which meant no betting and no 20%. So Roy had one of those great lightbulb moments in history, he said "why dont we take Oscar into Wenty and slip him". Now I replied the obvious, Oscar wouldnt handslip, he'd stand there.

So into Wenty we went, Roy dropped him, Oscar just looked up at Roy and stood there. He got the hare sent round again, same thing. We went home.

That sat night at Wenty, and he was racing Dilston Prince etc, Oscar was 6/4 out to 9/2, everyone and his dog knew Oscar had given up the chase. He was also 9/2 back to fav, went straight to the lead, and had Rodney Potter pointing me to the stewards room to explain the betting flucs LOL

Mark now thats the shit. Well done champion.
Reminds me of a lot of years ago i was only young i went to Mudgee with some older guys who had 3 dogs in the first 5 races.
They cleaned the bookies out. The bookies packed up with about 10 races to go and had to pay some payouts by cheque.
All 3 dogs won.

So not really a plunge but at 15 years old it was a lot of fun. sometimes it might have happened 1-2 during the nite.

I did have one big win at 15 at the old Olympic park track I backed our dog at 20-1 into a double with another dog I ended up winning $2500 not bad for a 15 year old I tipped everyone on track and even the race caller said there was A GOOD TIP ON TACK I think he won a race called the Chinese Cup over 700 I night sure if you can view the video as it was a long time a ago the dog was called Rapid Valdez.

when I was bookmaking at the gabba, Night Merinda(an underrated flyer from the coast) was 25/1 into 9/2 beating the odds on fav.Acacia Ablaze in a 420.

Lovely days.

so many more but I don't want to bore
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Cinnamon 100/1 into 16/1 beating Flat Flyer at Sandown Park,huge collect.

The this and that syndicate owned Aptly who at 4 years of age won a maiden stake at sandown in 31.07,drifting from 5/2 to 7/2.The following week on a bog he ran 30.64 to beat Slave Boy,4/1 into 7/4 australia wide

Wishing Top at geelong first up...9/4 into 1/3 ..won by 15 lengths savaged the bookies to a point that 2 (Hudson and Swannie) resigned.

Put $1,000 in the tab account on Friday to back Paw Licking in the Traralgon Cup won at evens, plenty of bets yesterday, like the stock market up and down. The decided to back Geelong with the whole lot to lead after every quarter, put four separate bets on as the tab online wouldn't take it as one bet ;
3 bets of $999 @ $1.65 and 1 bet of $53 @ $1.65
Geelong have stopped and Brisbane is coming home heart racing stuff never again 26 points the difference with about 15 minutes to go.

Hahahaha I'd have to win the award for the most unluckiest sports bet punter of the year award for 2013 wouldn't I ? Arrh well gives you all something to talk about at work tomorrow. Might even make the tv report on sky on Friday The Punters Club or hearld sun.

If you're the unluckiest I'm the stupidest - had Geelong -14.5 as last leg of a multi to win a tick under 3k - at 3/4 time I looked at bet365 and Brisbane +15.5 was $23 I thought about having $100 on and that way either result was still a nice collect. But my ego got the best of me and I thought the Cats would run away with it. The rest is history.
I still can't work out how they got run down the low plicks.

but a few years ago i had a bitch who came from another trainer and form read 887688 and turned out she had a fair amount of ability she was trialling the house down and i had hidden her well come race day being a punter who new nothing i placed $1000 on her in the morning and thought as the pool builds her price will just sky rocket she went out to 5 dollars 2 hours before race i had another $500 she ended up winning and paid $4.40 she paid $19 n.s.w and $24 qld so u can tell i stuffed up there still was happy but should of been a hell of a lot more just didnt know the best way to get it.

Yippeeeeeee......Just paid for my week away at Phillip Island end of August, new rug for the lounge room. Then some to transfer to the tab account for some more fun on the weekend...