Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Artists are notoriously hard to handle. Van Gogh was a madman who ended up in an asylum, but they knew how to let him paint. Da Vinci did what he wanted to, regardless of what he was told. So did Jackson Pollock, the painter of Blue Poles. And Hunter S Thompson, my favorite writer. No-one […]
They look a bit alike too don’t they? Both good sorts. Kenny Rogers wrote a song Sussan. It was based on the life of fearless bookmaker DT Crimmins. Your local constituent and biggest fan. You had coffee together in Albury one day. It goes like this. You got to know when to hold ’em Know […]
What a shame it is that NSW and Victoria couldn’t or wouldn’t get their acts together and coordinate bonus series that fell into line so all the superstars could race in each, and the dream Hunter Cup fell away. Not that it’s not fantastic. Don Hugo and Captain’s Knock won’t be there, and The Janitor […]
It was going over here, to Alyangula, on Groote Eylandt, which is Dutch word for Island. But the barge didn’t make it. It got blown away by the wind. Fair dinkum. Quick abbreviated history lesson. A Dutch privately owned but State backed outfit called the Dutch East India Company used to own Indonesia, which being […]
Look at the size of this unmanned barge that mysteriously washed up empty near Badu Island in the Torres Strait yesterday. They reckon it got washed away from its mooring in Indonesia, and the wind and tide blew it there. Bullshit. Badu Island is thousands of kilometers from Indonesia, with coral reefs and islands in […]
Hi Peter, To comment on why APG have spotters like Lance Holberton ferried to all APG sales is because he and others like him are part of the team, The secret is to keep it in house and to understand the sting, not what is apparent but the old perception V’s reality trick. Auctions have […]
I know they didn’t have a permit to protest, but FFS these people weren’t blockading thoroughfares or being violent, and they weren’t causing any trouble. They were just praying. Why the hell would the police attack them? For what cause? They weren’t the crazed Bondi psycho killers. These poor people are more like the victims […]
There are a number of Australians who are key note speakers at the Asian Conference this week in Saudi Arabia. These are they. Apologies to anyone we’ve missed. And BTW they are not really rogues, I was using jingoism for a cute headline. PS – Has anyone seen a real Kiwi? ——————————————————— Gillon McLachlan TABCORP […]
There is nothing published about it, but we’re told that the QRIC have called jockey Kyle Wilson-Taylor in on Thursday to attend an inquiry into his ride at Doomben. Is so it’s bad timing, because KWT is off to Saudi Arabia this week to watch his girlfriend Angela Jones ride in the International Jockeys’ Challenge […]
The APG sale at Ipswich yesterday was a weird one. Only 19 lots of the 41 lots on offer sold, at an appalling clearance rate of just 46.34%. If Inglis or the Magic millions only sold those sort of numbers they would give up. NZ Standardbred would too. There were three reasons for the low […]
