Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
One of my half a dozen bets on the good thing. Got the price. Form ‘expert’ Shane Ciurlio declared the favourite it in the Cup a moral. He ended up with more egg on his face than a bloke lying on the floor in a battery hen farm. Now it’s my turn. But I don’t […]
Have a look at this race will you. In particular have a close look at the drive on the horse 3 back the fence in the black. Watch it closely over the last 100m, and keep one eye fixed firmly on the driver Rodney Laker. Why did Lakey do that? There can only be one […]
Matt Tripp should have the Edge Hill kid running his book. He knows how to count. The hot word from out sources down south inside Sportsbet is that the floundering and flailing BetR CEO Matthew Tripp has stuffed up big time with his $101 odds Melbourne Cup promo, and is under huge pressure from his […]
For a long time there I was a lone voice in the wilderness shouting about how Sharp ‘N’ Smart was a champion, and it took until Saturday for the ‘experts’ in the mainstream media to wake up and realise that I was telling the truth. Now they have they are all over him, with some […]
This is my wife Maggie’s great-grandfather, Herbert Charles Cull, aka Aiden De Brune, a once famous Australian author. From 1921 to 1924 he spent two years walking around Australia, becoming the first person ever to do so in the process. In 1920 he was working as a journalist at the Bunbury Herald when suddenly he […]
I always wanted to be tough. Boxing didn’t do it. Tatts didn’t do it. Homelessness didn’t do it, or living on bet drunk bones of my arse for years. Not even incarceration did. But now, thanks to the Sport of Stings, I have made it. What the punt taketh away, the punt gives back in […]
