Why Horses?

This horse I've been telling you about for years - Chautauqua - just won Sydney's TJ Smith Stakes ($2.5 million) on Saturday for the second year running. But how it won is more impressive than that it won.

Chautauqua - Best Australasian sprinter for many years.
And you read it here first...

It paid odds of almost four-to-one and you could have easily gotten that 4:1 'on-course' too. Which is another lesson to learn - good horses win good races at good prices, and they do it often.

Chautauqua was last on the turn on a rain-soaked heavy track in a field of the best-performed sprinters in Australasia going around at the moment. And it won going away by one-and-a-half-lengths. And that was the fastest sectional I have ever seen any horse carry out since the great Raffindale.

Horse racing is not about gambling... It's a sort of a 'streaming narrative' of life and especially about the lives of people with money.

For example, intelligent owners who give their horse clever names are possibly an indication that they are clever enough to pick out the genuine potential from the young untried horses in the sales yard.

...And there are a lot of other 'indicators' that obtain in the world of horse racing. 

Horse racing is about categorical winning or losing. It's not conjectural. 

Mind you, the owners could have a dozen heart-attacks while the horse is making the last hundred meters!

John and Theo Poulakis - owners of Harrold's
Menswear; best tailoring outlet in Australasia.
Parker's of Perth are a related company and as good.

The big-money drama being played out twists the key decisively until things are so wound up, the sheer tension is palpable on-course. 

And then 'Bam!' That's the what the actual race-caller blurted out on the day in his calling of the race. ...In literally the last fifty metres (2/3 seconds of the race): 'Chautauqua - Bam!'