Leave Your Pants on at Melton Mr Reid – You Might Be Able to Side-Step a Couple of Kiwi Security Guards, But the Graham Girls Will Cut You Down Like a Naked Moa
This is the Bolt For Brilliance, the famous Kiwi end to end and off and away Test Match nude run. How many Aussie streakers get the other end of the birthday suit dash without tackled or shoulder charged? Not many, if any. Brad Reid did. He bred the champion trotter that’s named after his seminal […]
The Big Plunge Misses – The Dead Horse Wins – The Kiwis Are Going So Bad at the Moment That They Can’t Even Fix a Trot Race
The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men, / Gang aft agley (often go astray) – Robert Burns Kiwi drivers Blair Orange and Gavin Smith has it all worked out in the 9th at Addington today. Orange’s was on A Bettor You, the odds on favourite from the Mark Purdon stable at $1.80. It was […]
Globe Derby is in More Trouble Than Flash Gordon – It’s a Basket Case
We’ve managed to get a partial copy of the Globe Derby (SAHRC) annual report, and the picture is dire. The club has lost more than $800 000 in the past year. That takes it losses over the last 2 years to almost a million dollars. It has just under $1.8 million in cash, but owes […]
Bitcoin Too Risky, Even For a Pro Gambler like David Walsh
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 […]
From Addington to Clermont, Via Melton and Tassie – What a Strange Ride Steward Shane Larkins Has Had
Shane Larkins started his Stewarding career in Christchurch, New Zealand. He crossed the ditch and moved to HRV as a Steward, and then went on to take up the role of Chief at the trots in Tasmania, a thankless task if there ever was one. After that he went back to HRV as Chief for […]
The Old Firm is Back in Town – Or in St Arnaud Anyway
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 […]
The Worst Magic Millions Formline in the World
Whatever you do, don’t ever back a winner of the Magic Millions 2YO at Ballarat in the Classic at the Coast. In fact, don’t back them ever, for with the exception of one Tony McEvoy trained Adelaide specialist, they are all bloody useless. Cusack (2021) hasn’t won a race since Ballarat. Last time out he […]
Do As I Say, Not as I Do – The Gary Woodham Challenge
Number one issue – we need a Code of Conduct, and we need it urgently. Now we are a sport Greg, and there are three pillars to sport: fair play, integrity, and doing your best. I’m worried about integrity, really worried about integrity. I want to make it very clear to everybody that I am […]
V’Landys Unearths a Gem
Have you ever met anyone in their early 40’s who has played for Australia in their sport, holds a Bachelor of Mechatronics Engineering, a Master of Biomedical Engineering, a Master of Intellectual Property, and an MBA, and is currently completing a Graduate Diploma of Applied Corporate Governance and Risk Management and a Master of Legal […]