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They go bonkers for racing in Honkers
1 Apr 2013I have recently returned from a trip to Hong Kong where racing is the king of sport, not just the sport of kings. In Hong Kong they generally race just two days a week – Sunday at Sha Tin and Wednesday night at Happy Valley. For locals and visitors alike, racing is the thing to [...]
Melbourne Cup: Beginners guide to betting on the big race
5 Nov 2012On the first Tuesday in November a nation stops to watch the Melbourne Cup – a horse race. Thousands of ordinary Australians are bitten by racing’s ‘bug’ and queue up to have something on a fancied runner and to watch the great race. Betting on the Melbourne Cup in Australia has become an unwritten tradition [...]
Melbourne Cup 2012: How the numbers stack up
5 Nov 2012Selecting the winner of the Melbourne Cup is not easy. The horse has to be sharp on the day, handle the track conditions, get a nice run in transit and be advantaged by the tempo of the race. The Roar can’t guarantee any of those crystal-ball type thoughts – however – we can give you [...]
Brisbane winter horses flourishing in spring
26 Oct 2012I like to watch the horses all year round – not just spring and autumn – and I generally follow the major racing carnivals around the country. Australia’s best carnival during winter is held in Brisbane. The shining lights in the Brisbane winter carnival are the Group 1 Doomben 10,000 (1350m) and Stradbroke Handicap (1400m), [...]
Spring racing: The hopes for the Cups and Plate
14 Sep 2012After the Flemington Makybe Diva Stakes meeting we have had a couple of weeks to assess the Spring hopes of many of the leading contenders. Preceding the Makybe Diva, was the Memsie Stakes meeting at Caulfield, and either of the two races are traditional Melbourne lead offs for horses looking to the Spring features (i.e. [...]
Greene with envy at AFL Rising Star
4 Sep 2012The best performed young footballer in the AFL in 2012 is ineligible to win the NAB Rising Star Award including a $20,000 investment portfolio. Toby Greene’s innocuous bump on Brisbane Lion Jed Adcock in round eight cost the prolific midfielder a one match suspension and almost certainly the coveted award. Past winners include Nathan Buckley [...]
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