Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
James Harron is a bloodstock expert they say. Alan Bond knew a lot about running TV stations too. After he’d sold the WA fraudster Channel 9 for $1000 million and bought it back from him for a quarter of the price, pocketing a cool $750 000 on the two transactions, Kerry Packer famously commented that […]
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result Albert Einstein In season 2005/2006 the then board of Harness Racing NSW undertook a comprehensive review of the breeding incentive schemes operated by the peak body, and after determining that further stimuli was required to address the […]
Douglas Overhiser is Summit Bloodstock’s business partner in the United States of America. Overhiser was a nobody in American harness racing until two years, a bloke that nobody knew, just the same as Summit Bloodstock’s owners Jamie-Durnberger Smith and Jake Webster overwere here too. The trio made their rapid rise from obscurity together, on either […]
The Paycheck Protection Payment (PPP) was the US equivalent of our Jobkeeper, a Government rescue package for businesses to keep them afloat through the pandemic, and to keep their employees paid, alive and in a job. It was paid by way of a ‘loan’ to businesses, but it wasn’t a loan it all it was […]
Doug Overhiser was born in 1971. He joined the navy in 1990 at age 19 and rose to the low to middle rank of an E5 Seaman. In 1999 he decided the sea was no longer for him, so he quit being a marine and became an operations manager at a trucking company called JB […]
He is good boss Doug Overhire. A man who looks after his workers. Admittedly he may have forgotten the 25 workers he employs at the other company OB Trucking Inc in the 2020 PPP loan application round, but we can forgive him, for the buggers were hiding in the spare bedroom bedroom and keeping real […]
The $4.2 million that Coolmore shelled out for Sunlight’s full brother at yesterday’s Inglis Easter Yearling Sales got me thinking about the success of siblings on the track, and wondering just how often lightning strikes twice by getting two top-liners from the one family. The first pair that sprung to mind were the champion Octagonal […]
As you can see from the explanation at the top, camp drafting (or cutting) is essentially mustering cows, the type of sport that the Man From Snowy River excelled in, when he wasn’t chasing packs of brumbies down Snowy Mountain to kidnap the valuable young champ who decided to decamp from home and get away […]
The top priced seller at yesterday’s Nutrien yearling sale was a filly by Somebeachsomewhere out of Caitlyn Clarke NZ, purchased for $160 000 by Geelong based businessman Danny Zavitsanos. Now you can understand why Mr Zavitsanos wants to get hold of the last daughter of Somebeachsomewhere ever to be sold in Australia, for he is […]
Wow. We were totally wrong about Nurtrien. Well, half right and half wrong anyway. At first we were massive supporters, and remained so for a long time. But the auctioneers gave us the shits during the Sydney sale, and we went sour on them. Stupid us. It was a mad trot-lover wronged thing, the Always […]
