Saturday November 22, 2008
Bonza flick has a heart bigger than Phar Lap's
"IT'S Australian, so I'll give it half a star," said At The Movies'
Margaret Pomeranz. "Entirely gluten-free," raved the Herald's Paul
Byrnes.
Wednesday November 19, 2008
Barnum would be proud - organisers have made a circus of Masters
IT IS commonly held that, with fierce competition from the US and
Europe and the tightening sponsorship market, the Australian golf
tour has reached the bottom of the barrel. Where else would you
expect to find John Daly?, writes Richard Hinds.
Saturday November 15, 2008
True grit will always stand up to test of time
IF YOU had just emerged from five weeks in a Trappist monastery,
the post-mortems of the India-Australia series might have left you
with the impression it had provided a new low-water mark in
international cricket, writes Richard Hinds.
Tuesday November 11, 2008
Price is right: Aron joins PGA's heavy hitters now he's good and ready
ABOUT this time last year, Aron Price tipped a Rolls-Royce off a
cliff, swung a wrecking ball through an eight-bedroom mansion and
threw a gold Rolex down the toilet.
Saturday November 8, 2008
Sport leads way on race, sex and age
DEFYING the long-held belief that their choice of president would
always be limited by racial prejudice, Americans elected a man
whose major literary influence is the Englishman Bob The Builder -
Yes We Can!
Wednesday November 5, 2008
Bart Cummings is cooking up a baker's dozen
ANOTHER tear welled in Bart Cummings's eye. But, lest the world
thought winning a 12th Melbourne Cup with the unfancied Viewed was
anything other than routine, the great horseman wiped it away.
First with the back of his hand, then with the type of droll
one-liner that is as much a part of his legend as the extravagant
grey coiffure.
Monday November 3, 2008
Raiders get the lost art of foxing back on the table
YES, concedes the trainer Dermot Weld, his runner Profound Beauty has some chance of winning tomorrow's Melbourne Cup. "[But] if the ground is on the soft side I think he [Septimus] would be nearly unbeatable," said the Irishman. "The rest don't matter. He's that good a horse."
Saturday November 1, 2008
Hey Jude, you were made to get up and go
CARL POIDEVIN unloads Get Up Jude from the single horse float he
has driven into the dusty car park at Mornington racecourse, about
60 kilometres south-west of Melbourne, and leads him to the stalls.
In the next hour he will fulfil the roles of trainer, stablehand,
track-rider and clocker as he prepares the battle-scarred
five-year-old for the first of what he hopes will be two momentous
days at Flemington.
Another scoop … of oats and I'll tell all
FOLLOWING our recent interviews with Craig Lowndes's hub caps and Harbhajan Singh's patka, another Hindsight exclusive. We talk with Melbourne Cup favourite Septimus in the lead-up to the race that stops productivity.
Monday October 27, 2008
Karma for Kavanagh
IN KAVANAGH CORNER, a quiet area of the Moonee Valley stalls where trainer Mark Kavanagh's four runners have been housed for the day, two men decked out in the latest racing merchandise are posing with the new glamour horse Whobegotyou, which has just sauntered to victory in the AAMI Vase and is now an unbackable favourite for the Victoria Derby.
Saturday October 25, 2008
Bazza's switch a no-brainer
AS REVEALED exclusively in the Herald, and revealed
"exclusively" elsewhere 11 days later, Barry Hall is serious enough
about a professional boxing career to fly to the US next month to
meet a promoter. And Danny Green is serious enough about Barry Hall
that he wants a piece of the action, writse Richard Hinds.
Monday October 20, 2008
All muscle, no hustle
IT HAD been not much more than an hour, but it seemed like much longer. Just 60 minutes since Weekend Hussler had been led from Ross McDonald's stables at Caulfield into stall No.6. Just 60 minutes since the ruddy-faced trainer, his wife Margaret and son Clinton had prepared their star to become a champion.
Saturday October 18, 2008
Old McDonald had a horse …
A colourful trail has led Weekend Hussler's trainer to today's Caulfield Cup, writes Richard Hinds.
Footy season never ends while Qatar gently weep
YOU slogged your way through the winter. Paid your dues in the
outer. Suffered the ups and downs of a season when your team sucked
more often than a petrol siphoner during an oil embargo.
Wednesday October 15, 2008
Pay TV, free-to-air get set for a penalty shoot-out
IT IS the sporting version of the tree falling in the forest conundrum: If the Socceroos score a goal on Foxtel, do enough impressionable schoolchildren see it?
