Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Our man in the desert state of WA Pedro tipped us all into Romantic Warrior three weeks ago, and his judgement proved spot on. Pedro is the shy retiring type as a rule, but I reckon this tip gives him the right to rip off his shirt and flex the muscles. The question now is […]
He goes alright for a fat, lazy prick doing a law degree doesn’t he? See the soft looking young white kid in the picture? The flabby looking bloke? That’s my boy Noah Conlan, grandson of the former leading Brisbane rails bookie Hayden Flynn; son of the 2nd best looking bird in Far North Queensland, face of […]
In the early 1900’s an orphan from Western Australia named Wilhemena Smith, who had been born a man in a women’s body, travelled across the Nullarbor to Far North QLD where I live and became a jockey named Billy Smith. Billy was the first – and until a year or two ago the only – […]
For a long time now we have been telling you that Sam Kerr is as genius, a great Australian sportsperson beyond the pale and beyond compare. Sam is God, we said. And do you know what? She is too. https://peterprofit.com/?s=sam+kerr Whoever would have thought Australia would be so excited about a women’s soccer tournament? Whoever […]
A great mate of mine’s mum went to the great racecourse in the sky last night. Last weekend she backed a winner, a couple of them in fact. She backed a few during her lifetime. I remember back 40 years to a time when my mate’s mum was working two jobs, and sometimes three, to […]
We all thought Merv Butterworth was cactus. But we were wrong. The great man has kicked. Hallelujah! Who else was going to be a pain in the arse to Meg every day if Merv wasn’t around? He can’t remember any of us texting him to give our love and best wishes. I guess there is […]
The well known Victorian gallops and harness trainer Ian Forsyth passed away over the weekend. He was a real good bloke Ian, and will be sadly missed. With the greatest of respect that he is due, will it to people who knew him better to write Ian’s story, and I warmly invite anyone who knew […]
Hadyn ‘Hollywood’ Flynn Jnr clocks up his half century this morning, although of course he’s telling everyone who will listen that he is only 48, just like he was was on the 8th of June the 2 years before. It’s a bit of a jealousy thing because his sister is actually older and much better […]
Merv Dean will long be remembered as the man who bought the great Cardigan Bay from the Todd brothers of Mataura. But there was much more to Merv than just that. Merv’s parents ran tobacconists in Hamilton, and in his youth Merv assisted his uncle, Henry Lee, one of New Zealand’s most notorious bookmakers. Lee […]
Copy That and Self Assured first met not in a race, but on a card, at Alexandra Park on 14 December 2019. They won separate races over 2200m, with Copy That running 1.6 seconds faster in his. It was a portent of things to come. The pair’s first actual race contest was in the 2020 Ashburton […]
