Diligent Harry to win the King Charles… someone is playing marbles in space.

This raised a chuckle from me. From the SMH March 1986.

The world’s richest race for yearlings, the Melbourne Cup at Hamilton Island, Caulfield’s track manager the Minister for Main Roads… lofty expectations from 1987 🤣

Got myself a most lovely old book this week.

I remember the day Black Caviar ran her last at Randwick. There were people lining the fences of the racecourse; everyone was talking about her in Coogee that night. It was like a window into the Phar Lap era, life stopped by a racehorse. A magical animal. 😔

Not just experts. Anyone who has or ever has had anything to do with horses.

Surely one of the most delightful pieces of writing… Tristan Antico talks to journalist Ben Hills, a terrific scribe, in August 1991.

Last year’s The Everest winner Think About It walks back to the stalls after falling in the Sydney Stakes. Great news that he’s up on his feet and appears to be moving okay.

Is Storm Boy a handful?

Of course, opinions vary but I don’t think The Everest has thrown up too many average ones in its short history. #TABEverest

A paddle today and a trip into the village afterward has found me a bit of a diamond, I think. They had no idea what they had.

lol, from 2001.

Sam Kavanagh’s interview with Neil Breen some time ago was probably the first time I’d really seen him behind all the headlines. It’s sad that he had such demons so young, now this. Life is not fair so much of the time.

Zarastro… what a satisfying story. Million-dollar yearling that didn’t cut the mustard, flipped online for $32.5k to some patient, tried-horse specialists in Queensland, and a fairytale delivered them tonight. You love to see it. Well-played Darren Smeath, Gollan Racing & co.