Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
I was waiting at the Cairns train station the other day waiting to pick up some friends coming back from Kuranda so I could drive then up to Port Douglas when an announcement came through that the loco was going to be delayed for a couple of hours, so I ducked across the road to […]
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, / Gang aft agley (often go astray) – Robert Burns Kiwi drivers Blair Orange and Gavin Smith has it all worked out in the 9th at Addington today. Orange’s was on A Bettor You, the odds on favourite from the Mark Purdon stable at $1.80. It was […]
I steal David Walsh’s carpark at Mona Professional gambler and art collector David Walsh says the price of bitcoin may tumble to zero, confessing he is not a fan of volatile cryptocurrencies even though he believes blockchain technology has value. Mr Walsh, a mathematician and wealthy professional gambler who is part of a syndicate that […]
I don’t have enough fingers and toes to count up how old trainer Tony Peacock and his stable driver Brian Gath are. I think if you counted backwards you’d up somewhere around the time that Ned Kelly was hung. Peacock and Gath are no Neds. They are too smart to end up on the end […]
Flashy Seb is the $1.60 favourite in race 1 at Menangle. If it steps clean and trots throughout it probably wins. Probably, but nowhere near certainly. But if gallops at the start it’s gone. I reckon it is likely to, and the odds are evens at worst, and more likely 6-4 that it will happen. […]
Michael Pell is the AFL umpire accused of leaking Brownlow votes to his mates so they could all make a motza punting on medal winner. What a scumbag. I guess with a surname like Pell is was sort of inevitable that he would end up being a corrupt prick. Karma I think it’s called. This […]
Now my great-great grandfather died for our country on the Western Front on Anzac Day 2018, a battle that many say won the war, so I am as patriotic as anyone in this beautiful wide brown land, and probably a whole lot more. After all, this direct line ancestor is one of the about 800 […]
There’s clearly two sides to this story. As an artist, I was unhappy to see young activists attacking Andy Warhol’s famous Campbell’s Soup Cans in the National Gallery of Australia on Wednesday. Society should be breathing a collective sigh of relief that civil disobedience is the chosen modus operandi of the young people who are carrying out these […]
I know a bloke who nailed the Pick 6 on today’s New Zealand Cup meeting. It paid $450 000. He didn’t get it all, but he got plenty. Whoever said that punting was for losers? If you meet a bloke named (XXXXX) at a bar at Christchurch tonight don’t buy him a drink. He can […]
As we have written before, by virtue of his share in the biggest and most successful punting operation in Hong Kong, the video form guru and harness nut Tim Vince is the richest man in the Kiwi trots. Vince is also an oft partner in horses with Summit Bloodstock, which in my book a huge […]
