Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Big spending owner Emilio Rosati sold his horse Jedi Mind to Darren Binskin for a dollar they reckon. If it’s true it was a damn good buy, for he has won plenty since Binskin signed the papers. The 11-year-old’s latest win was last Tuesday at Menangle when he brained them in 1.54.6. I can’t the […]
In 1959, a young Pakistani banker named Agha Hasan Abedi opened United Bank Limited with backing from Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi. Abedi, Wikipedia points out, was: “One of the first to comprehend the opportunities offered by the oil boom in the Persian Gulf, Abedi pioneered close economic collaboration in the private […]
Attention New Tabcorp. You are as bad as the old. If you actually had a look, I think you might find that jockey Tahlia Hope finished her apprenticeship quite some time ago. Which means that you’ve got it wrong again, and mislead mug punters once more. Want a quick but deadly accurate tip about why […]
About seven months ago we wrote a story about a horse called Mark Dunnett, who couldn’t a yard when it was in the barn of Courage Under Fire’s trainer B. Negus, but turned into Batman when transferred to the Woodend Beach stables of Lurch Dunn. In his first six runs for Lurch the 26 starts […]
Bruce Negus is a bloke who can train pacers a bit. Do you remember that rather handy horse called Courage Under Fire? It was his. Negus is no mug is what I am saying. Bruce looked like a mug at Westport yesterday though, that’s for sure. He once had this horse called Mark Dunnett you […]
Archie I hate to tell you this, but your average earnings per runner strategy re sires is flawed. Not every US state has the same prizemoney in bread and butter races or sires/state based incentive programs. The average is dependent on the state the stallions stood in, and if the mares they served have dual […]
Gday Archie, Was just reading through your stories from the weekend and wanted to confirm that it definitely did rain in Muttaburra on Saturday morning, it was still raining at 7.30am when they did the ring around. Two of the dirt roads into the town were also closed due to the rain and have only […]
When a nasty rumour resurfaced about trucking magnate Lindsay Fox and a Christmas party on a 100-foot yacht his little black book came to his rescue. But we felt for up-market trucker Lindsay Fox this week when an old newspaper clipping surfaced claiming he hosted a lavish Christmas party with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell as guests on his “100-foot […]
Jeffrey and Ghislaine came to Aussie town, and dined on a transport titan’s boat. They liked boats that pair. And transport, particularly of the private kind. What do you reckon James Packer was doing hanging out with the pedo KIng and Queen of the world? What did they had in common with Lindsay Fox, so […]
As with almost everything in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, family standing in the royal court was what counted most in the rise and fall of Saudi business tycoon Ghaith R. Pharaon. He is a central figure in the scandal surrounding the Bank of Credit and Commerce International’s alleged secret purchase of three American banks, […]
