The weather gods were  playing games at Randwick   And there were many  different points of view  So many tipsters and analysts  Sounding like a murder of crows  Everyone saying something  Did they know what was who?  Could there actually be  too much of a good thing?  Is all this more of a   hindrance than a help? Don’t know what’s  coming or going  And who’s gonna give in  without even a yelp?  That was thebelmontgangster  A hot favourite at Caulfield  who was only shooting

There’s much perception versus reality involved, and speaking recently to a young overseas jockey who was considering applying for a license to ride in Hong Kong, I advised her that being part and parcel of Hong Kong racing first requires doing serious due diligence about how the city works and sees itself today and what the government is thinking about based on the financial and business objectives of China. It’s also about knowing exactly where a gambling driven pastime lik

I was too young to understand the public outpouring of shock and tremendous sadness when John F Kennedy Jr was assassinated, and only felt something to what had happened listening to my parents and my uncle and aunties talk and talk about what had happened in Dallas. These were the times of black and white television and newspapers and they believed what they were told by a very limited media. When Robert Kennedy was fatally shot, I was a few years older and saw the events un