Lasseters Adds Flash -- Australian online casino Lasseters.com has added 21 new Flash games to its suite that already contains 65 Shockwave Games. The new addition is composed of 16 slots, three table games, and two video poker games. Lasseters has also converted some its most popular Shockwave games to the quick downloading Flash format, including blackjack, roulette, baccarat, Bernie's slots, Blazing Saddles, Buccaneers Treasure, Down Under, and Festive Follies. The group, which recently launched a Nickel Zone on its site for low rollers, says more Flash Games will be launched in the near future.
Guilty -- Miles Rodgers, the former director of the Platinum Racing Club was yesterday banned by the UK Jockey Club for two years because he was found to have laid two of his horses to lose on betting exchange Betfair. Rodgers has become the first person to suffer penalties extending from the Jockey Club's new rules that make it illegal for owners, trainers, and stable staff to bet against their own horses. Betfair, who last year signed a memorandum of understanding with the Jockey Club, called the Jockey Club's attention to suspicious betting accounts linked to Rodgers. The Jockey Club says Betfair's evidence plaid a critical part of the investigation.
Horseracing Channel -- Attheraces is likely to go off the air on Tuesday because its ownership could not reach a new deal with racecourses, but some of the leading racecourses are already well into planning their own racing channel. Officials with Newbury and Doncaster have disclosed that they could launch the Horseracing Channel within a few weeks. RCA's Racetech could possibly supply pictures for the station. The Racing Post reported that a large number of the 49 tracks that had signed on to the Attheraces deal are already supporting the new channel.
Quoteworthy -- "The announcement is hardly a surprise, but is no less disappointing for that. The fact is that the sport has stabilized its share of a burgeoning betting market as a result of the professional and consistent coverage which attheraces has broadcast. Our customers have benefited from that and racing has grown from a 30 to a near 50 per cent share of Betdaq's overall turnover. Those same customers have already begun to push us to look for alternative betting markets in the event of racing going dark for an extended period."-- Rob Hartnett, managing director of betting exchange Betdaq, responding to the announcement that attheraces will likely go off the air Tuesday.