Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
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 […]
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 […]
