You Always Hear it Here First
We tipped you into this 6 weeks ago. Enough said. You always here it here first.
Gangles on the to Road to Heaven
“From a personal point of view what I’m really looking forward to is assisting clubs throughout the region as I get a lot of sanctification out of seeing clubs prosper and do well.” Greg Gangle, outgoing Wagga trot club CEO Well for a few years I believed that confession, repentance and atonement was the way […]
The Mystery of the RQ/Tom Hedley Dispute
There are strange whispers coming from all parts of the State that Racing Queensland has written a highly unusual letter to the Cairns Jockey Club requesting (demanding?) that club Chairman Ton Hedley vacate his elected role forthwith, or else RQ will withhold funding of up to $200 000 from the club. We have strong mail […]
Genius – Part 1
Horse racing is something like a religion in Hong Kong, whose citizens bet more than anyone else on Earth. Their cathedral is Happy Valley Racecourse, whose grassy oval track and floodlit stands are ringed at night by one of the sport’s grandest views: neon skyscrapers and neat stacks of high-rises, a constellation of illuminated windows, […]
Genius – Part 2
Benter grew up in a Pittsburgh idyll called Pleasant Hills. He was a diligent student and an Eagle Scout, and he began to study physics in college. His parents had always given him freedom—on vacations, he’d hitchhiked across Europe to Egypt and driven through Russia—and in 1979, at age 22, he put their faith to […]
Genius – Part 3
The Hong Kong that greeted Benter was a booming financial center, with some of the most densely populated spaces on the planet. The crowded skyline that had recently inspired Ridley Scott’s dystopian megacity in Blade Runner seemed to sprout towers weekly. Benter and Woods rented a microscopic apartment in a dilapidated high-rise. Warbling Cantonese music drifted through […]
Genius – Part 4
Throughout 1997 a shadow loomed over Hong Kong. After 156 years of colonial rule, the British were set to hand the territory back to China on July 1. There were news reports of Chinese troops massed at the border, and many islanders feared it would be the end of Hong Kong’s freewheeling capitalism. China tried […]
Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow
Fox Hats and Total Twats – Rocky Gives You Two For the Price of One
One of Aaron Bain and Summit Bloodstock’s ‘big’ owners is a syndicate called Wear the Fox Hat. It’s Rocky Butterworth’s syndicate. He is all class isn’t he? And the Rock has the hide to call me a piece of shit. My WearTheFoxHat syndicate gets another 2nd in the Miracle Mile with our superstar Spirit Of […]
The Doctor Serves it Up to Watches About Cardigan Bay’s Grave Getting Sealed Over By a Car Park
Olympic Swiss Watches, made in Asia An open letter to Auckland Trotting Club president Jamie MacKinnon. Why waste tens of thousands of dollars in the High Court fighting over who owns the remains of Cardigan Bay when the solution is obvious and in your hands? Ever since the New Zealand Trotting Hall Of Fame notified […]