DJANGO UNCHAINED



To those who just woke up to the idea of having an international mahjong championship in Hong Kong and how mahjong could even be an Olympic sport, do please bear in mind, children, that we suggested this over two years ago and using the drawing star power of Actress and mahjong aficionado Julia Roberts…

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A tad disconcerting to hear from a girl who decided to take up transcendental meditation and how her first hour of solace and deep diving into her inner self brought her face to face with Keith Richards…

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And so we say Adieu to TAB Radio in Perth, and though it had its time, especially under the unhinged creativity of our old pal Wes Cameron, below, it had run its race. 

Like similar channels, it had dissipated into yet another relentlessly boring old school online racing and sports channel with the same old hosts rambling on and on and salivating and drooling over the punt, the punt, the punt, and non stop tipping. 

Maybe this still works in Oz, but how big is the sponsorship value and audience for this type of content? 

From the research findings given to very probably the largest music company in the world, despite the seemingly rabid interest in horse racing in Australia, it’s ignored by advertisers and sponsors as the audience it attracts is an extremely small and old/aging one. 

This is probably why the largest and most loyal advertiser on RSN was a funeral home- the Tobin Brothers.

As we have been saying for years, give us your dead hours after the ‘live’ sports broadcasts have ended.

Knowing the different time zones and musical tastes of very different segments of younger audiences, we’ll give whatever the new online radio now owned by Craig Hutchison is called, something different and a product that can help horse racing rise agaIn from the dead…and not just continue with more repeats of tales from the crypt. 

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It’s not my money and as I received absolutely nothing except amateurish games for the episodic series of how Wini Met Simon, what exactly is the HKJC getting out of its supposed multi million dollar partnership with X1X Entertainment? 

It would be interesting to know plus what HKJC Entertainment is and might be?

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Almost on the same subject, we were shown a video attributed to something called the Academy of Pop and featuring Rachel, the Indonesian member of the still unknown girl group to most of the city, speaking in Bahasa and endorsing Hong Kong for two Indonesian sponsors- a bank and credit card company.

The last I heard via a WhatsApp message from someone who should know from X1X was that this Academy Of Pop would be presented to the Hong Kong government through the contacts of someone with the Hong Kong Jockey Club.

Nothing else after this, because I just got tired of being palmed off from one person to the next until my patience shattered and so did a Garbo quicker than anyone can say those magic words known as ICAC.

Does any of this United front make sense, and, one asks again, with whom the buck stops for what is an ongoing and apparently expensive train wreck? 

Adding to all this confusion and delusionary thinking is that with one-time Korean superstar Rain set to perform at 11.30am as the opening act on the Sunday of HKIR week, one wonders where Now United will fit in- and, more importantly, just how very very long and dreary the day at the races will be? 

As for talk emanating from the evil empire of its high priest going ballistic at the Ascot races-?seriously?-and banging tables and screaming like a little girl after the abandonment recently of a horse race at Happy Valley racecourse, one refuses to believe any of this. 

The high priest of horse racing practices what he preaches about being kind and gentle and loving and loyal and how he abhors anything approaching petty politics, anger and the unhinged detonations of bridges to what could have been very real friendships.

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Getting involved in horse racing is a game of chance and where everyone and their poodle are tipsters. There are a buffet of options made available with what’s important being to win and realise that $2 is $2 anywhere and so find out where the odds of winning might be high and which rider to follow.

Us, we follow French rider Pierre Boudvillain, below, who rides mainly on the provincial tracks on weekdays in New South Wales.

A few Sunday ago, he rode a winning double at Gundagai and won the jockey challenge. This added up to a tidy profit of around 8 to 1 by taking the fixed odds on offer without having to drown in any whirlpool.

As for fairly newer names in Australia who we believe are worth following?

Of course, Top of the Pops is jockey Ethan Brown, below, who’s doing more and more riding for trainer Ciaron Maher.

Other names to follow are Celine Goudray, Emily Pozman, Angela Jones, Rochelle Milnes, Emily Lang, whereas in WA, we’ll take Lucy Fiore, below, over the Pike man any day of the week, especially when riding horses trained by Peter Fernie.

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