Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I was watching the channel 7 coverage of the races on TV on Satuday, and just before the Doomben Cup the comperes Jason ‘Richo’ Richardson and Emma Freedman were interviewing Annabelle Neasham when the National Anthem began to be sung. Instead of stopping and either standing silent or singing along with the anthem, Richardson and […]
Hi Archie, I remember going to the Mingela races in the early 70’s. The two-up game started after the last race. When the pool built up to a sizeable the two coppers from Charters Towers who were there for the day walked through and scooped it all up. Queensland being what it was back then, […]
The picture you see is the Victorian coppers breaking up the two-up ring after the last at the ‘Bool today. What next? Are they gunna stop Australians marching down the street on Anzac Day? Put a halt to punting at the Melbourne Cup? Ban people from drinking beer at the Boxing Day test? Where does […]
Isn’t it a great boost for QLD country racing that James McDonald has elected to drive up to Blackall for a mount on Saturday in preference to riding in the Group 1 Champagne and All Aged Stakes. It would be fantastic, if only it were true. Sadly however it’s not. RISA – which should know […]
If you have the pay-per view channel Stan, then head straight to a movie called That’s Not My Dog! It’s an absolute cracker. The show is essentially a party that Shane Jacobsen who played the lead role in the great Aussie comedy movie Kenny puts on for his elderly father Ron, another great comedian, and […]
Aussie handicapping system Don’t Stop Dreaming is a rating 120 pacer in Australia. In New Zealand it’s only a rating 107. Kango is rateg 118 in Australia. At home its merely a rating 99. Miracle Mile second placegetter Sooner The Bettor left Sydney as a rating 85. It stepped off the plane back to Auckland […]
This is the slow motion replay of the moment that Tim Tszyu got split open like an axed watermelon in his title fight yesterday. You wouldn’t believe such nothing sort of contact could create such carnage, and cost you tens of millions in future earnings would you? How unlucky could Tim Tszyu be? He was […]
Well-known Australian owner Ozzie Kheir has had plenty of success buying thoroughbreds out of New Zealand, and now he is looking to boost his investment across the Tasman. New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing’s announcement last month on the summer racing calendar revamp, prizemoney increases and introduction of the $3.5 million The NZB Kiwi (1500m) slot race […]
So it was with a healthy portion of schadenfreude that I watched the usual stalwarts march up to donate their hard earned on what turned out to be the thinnest, weakest and most unreliable offerings from the major clubs on the east coast of Australia all year. Seriously, they should be ashamed and should undertake some […]
Has there ever been a more profitable investment than tobacco shares? Or tax? And is it any wonder that the organised underworld has shifted or expanded its focus from Class 1 drugs to cigarettes? Forty years ago when Hoges was a young man fresh off the rig of the Sydney Harbour Bridge selling smokes, a […]
