Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I have very bad news for Bonno. No, it is not the definition of his nickname in the Urban Dictionary, although it is not one that I’d want. The bad news is not that Beyonce doesn’t wail either. It is that she never wailed, sang, whispered or said ‘girls, they run the world’. What she […]
Incentivise, which jumped as a $2.90 favourite, claimed the crown as the most popular fixed odds commodity in TAB’s history, attracting more money than any other galloper ever has in one race. He held an astonishing 24 per cent of the market with TAB with no shortage of big bets among that weight of money. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
