Melbourne cup tips – Dunaden again
Well, the two horses I tipped (see below) didn’t even make the field. So the best tip I’ve had for the cup in ages can’t even get a run? This says a lot about the VRC and their antiquated handicapping. An old well performed horse will make the cup, but newcomers cannot. Or perhaps the [...]
As the duelists of the tour de France don country colours a Slovak with a little no team can trump the big names from GB, Australia, and America. No doubt the British go in favourites, they have le Tour winner Wiggins as the lead out man for the world champion “the missile” Mark Cavendish and [...]
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This is the most open tour in years, perhaps because it is drug free, or as free as it can be. No great climbers that can leap past pedestrians like a TGV, no great teams like those that surrounded Lance in the old days. SKY may argue with that because they have a great team [...]
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On Betfair, the ASX, derivatives and all sports we love to gamble. We have become a gambling world. The only way to make money today is from gambling or from charging fees to gamble with others money. This should be a thesis on the damages and harm of such base drives as the will to [...]
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It’s easy to imagine So You Think, Australia’s greatest horse in recent memory, appearing out of the dust of Hades carrying one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse. A big muscular brut of a horse who races up to his physique, a no-nonsense position anywhere in the race champion who expects victory. His [...]
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Oakbank is the biggest picnic race meeting in the Southern hemisphere, held about a 45min drive from the centre of Adelaide, in the rolling hills and gum tree bush, 60,000 people go to dress up, show off, BBQ and watch horses run around in circles and over fences. Flying into Adelaide always reminds me of [...]
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