Sometimes this racing game can provide a story that brings a lump to the throat.
We had one recently.
A battler Michael Tubman once had a promising horse called Crimson but gave the game away in despair after Crimson broke a leg on the training track and was destroyed.
He knocked around for years dabbling with greyhounds and working odd jobs becoming a carpet layer.
He and a mate went to the sales and liked the look of a filly related to a horse Geiger Spirit they had been associated with many years ago. One problem they had was no money.
The filly was passed in at $20,000. Michael went around to the stalls and offered $15000 and it was accepted.
They headed home to try to raise the cash.
Somehow the money was raked up and the filly now named Chance Bye, once in work, looked promising.
On Saturday it had its first start in a race at Randwick in the Inglis event worth $150,00 to the winner.
No one gave it a chance and fixed odds on Thursday put her up at 25/1.
The money kept rolling in Friday and Saturday 16/1 12/1 8/1.
It opened up on track at 6/1
A bushie dressed in T-shirt, shorts and thongs produced a plastic bag full of cash and walked up to leading bookmaker Con Kafataris and backed her to win $100,000.
They just kept backing her until they jumped. The TV boys tracked down trainer Michael.
“How good is she?” Michael replied. “Ïf she jumps she wins”.
She jumped straight to the front and with jockey Kathy O’Hara holding her together around the turn.
Once they straightened for home the filly raced away and won with her ears pricked.
Michael said, “Now we can pay back the money we borrowed and we’ll have enough to pay up for her in the Golden Slipper. There’s another Inglis race next month. We’ll win that too “
In case you missed it. It was the last day of school and the kids were getting restless.The teacher was watching the clock waiting for 3 o’clock to come.”
The teacher said, “I’ll ask you a question and whoever answers it correctly can go early.”
Little Johnny up the back thought he was pretty smart “I’ll be out of here in no time” he whispered to his mate
The teacher asked, “Who said I have a dream? Before Johnny could open his mouth, little Mary said “Martin Luther King”.
“Correct Mary, you may go.”
The teacher asked, “Who said ‘Ask not what your country can do for you...’ Before Johnny could call out the answer, Jenny said, “John Kennedy.”
Teacher said, “Correct Jenny, you may go.“
Johnny was furious. He said, “I wish these damn girls would keep their mouth shut“
The teacher was horrified. “Who said that?”
Johnny jumped up “Tiger Woods. Can I go, Miss?
Locally owned Gundy Sun put up a huge performance to score at Doomben on Boxing Day. From the extreme outside barrier of 18 and burdened with the top weight of 58 kilos, the only time he sighted the fence was on the way to the barrier and returning to scale. With luck on his side, this horse could quite easily have won four straight.
The barrier (14) beat him at Eagle Farm when he failed by a length; he bolted in by six lengths in a class 3.
Then was trotting coming to the turn in a class six, only to run into dead-ends and lose all momentum while his stablemate sailed down the outside to win.
Boxing Day had no favours as the saddle slipped at the start and jockey Danny Nikolic had to let him run along three and four deep all the way.
He kicked at the top of the straight and held on bravely to score.
With any change of luck should win his way through the classes, but being so consistent will get plenty of weight
Our racing historian friend Len Cleal can’t remember this happening before. Neither can we.
On Saturday in New Zealand Sun Ruler beat Sunstrike by a nose. Both have the same mum Sunline. Both are trained by Sunline’s trainer Stephen McKee.
Unfortunately Sunline was recently put down after suffering hoof problems
Texas trainer Rod Hilton had the Bookies cheering at the big Inverell meeting on Boxing Day.
He produced the Arena mare Wagetrain first up from a spell and surprised punters by defying all challengers from the favourites to score a game win. An excellent training performance.
Rather Rotund Resident of Baker Street said to Drinking Partner, “Your round.”
Partner replied,“ You’re pretty fat yourself.”
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