Can Someone Tell Please Tell Queensland Racing Expert Nathan Exelby That We Are Racing Today at Eagle Farm?
He is a real journalist Nathan Exelby. Just ask him. He will tell you. He swears it in affidavits when bagging racing writers like me. Nathan did a single journalism unit in his Sports Science degree at ANU, where he had to go because he didn’t have a high enough TE score to get into […]
If You Are Going to Be a Smart Arse, It’s Best to do it Properly
Karl Stefanovic is one one of those blokes I have never understood. How does a clown like this become so successful? Why does he think spouting rubbish to harried housewives up early making school lunches and old ladies that can’t sleep makes him a star? What sort of lunatic pays him $2 million a year […]
Andrew Bolt is Australia’s Biggest Idiot – He Should Get a Job Frying Chips at a Fisho in Ipswich
De Kock has never bent the knee to the BLM to advertise he’s not racist, as many sportsmen now do out of conviction – or fear. He never explained why he remained standing while teammates knelt, and shouldn’t have to in a free world. “No one’s forced to do anything, not in life,” he once said. […]
Les Rules – An Ode to Carlyon on the Eve of a Rich Man’s Folly and the Caulfield Cup
I was having a yarn recently with the great Australian writer Andrew Rule of Chopper, Underbelly, Winx, Chance and many other great books fame, and the discussion turned to the topic of the greatest Australian racing writer ever. As my early bids I threw up names like Max Presnell, Bert Lillye, Frank Hardy,Rollo Roylance, the […]
A Left of Centre Tip
If you read or see the story about the poor woman with COVID-19 living in a tent in her Mum’s back yard because there is no emergency accommodation available to people required to quarantine, take it with a huge grain of salt. All is not as it appears with Georgia Millsom’s story. That all is […]
An Open Letter to Mr R. Callendar, C/- PVL’s Pocket, Randwick, NSW
Dear Richard As you know I am very fond of you, and when you are in peak form hold you in high esteem as a racing writer. Sadly however mate you have been going about as good as Kubrick lately. Remember him? He won the first edition of that ridiculous million dollar wank of a […]
A Tip for Racing. Com
Here is the tip. Racing.com Move the bloody times down from the top to the bottom of the screen will you? Please. No-one except cows, hurdlers and stipes wives want to see grass, fences and Stewards in pork pie hats. We want to see how horse is travelling, and to do that we need to […]
Archie v Ad-Ham re the Trots Reignites the Days of Great Literary Debate Between Henry and the Banjo
Let’s go drinking in the gardens after dark, Or do some burnouts in Pedrina Park; Do you want to go shopping on the weekend, or to see a new release? No, I don’t feel like going to Warrnambool. There’s lots of things to see and do We’ve got one footy club, we used to have […]
The Name That Must Not Be Spoken – Punter Banned For Life For Saying ‘D. Nikolic’
This story is so bizarre that you could hardly believe that it was true if you hadn’t seen the proof with your own eyes, and had a colleague check to see that you hadn’t gone mad. I have, and it’s confirmed that it is not me or the life-long punter and racing fan Col Elliott […]