The World's Richest Horse Race

The media is guilty of this nonsense of trying to qualify the statement like this: the world's richest horse race on turf.

Turf racing is horse racing, all the other things are rink-dink fake pretend horse races where the track-owners either are too cheap to spend the money to look after a proper turf circuit, or else the environment 'on course' is so artificial due to the local climate, that growing proper grass for racing on is impossible. To say nothing of the 'help' to soft-conditioned super wealthy people's toy race horses that float and bounce on rubberized surfaces... 

Redzel

The Everest held in Sydney, Australia, is the world richest horse race.

Redzel - whom we have spoken about here before, won it again, for the second year in a row.

And the trainer, Peter Snowden - one of the best trainers in the world today - was totally overcome during the interview immediately after the race. This was a 13 million dollar race and he's won it twice in successive years. He talked about god in the interview... And there were tears threatening to pour down his face.

LOL

Peter Snowden was completely overcome at one point

As someone with a past in the world of professional gambling, I should point out that professional gambling is not about trying to win any particular single race, or attempting to put all your stock into 'the next race' - but rather, to organize your stake and calculate ways of profiting over several races on average and achieving the best odds (prices) not just any odds on what you think is most likely to win. 

At the same time I have a genuine appreciation of what it takes to be an owner, or trainer, or dedicated follower of horses, and these sorts of highest level events are a source of admiration for me of the unique traits of race horses, and of the love and the dedication of owners and trainers. I find I generally cannot bet on these events. Some people assume that for trainers and owners it's just about the money - it's not about the money. What horse racing can teach you, if you are observant, is a certain baroque depth about life that almost nothing else can teach you consistently - maybe opera, some classical music, some old school heavy rock music, also can (teach)...

This weekend we saw some authentic star race horses. And for some reason the last seven or eight years have produced some of the best horses all in the same general era, that I have ever seen over fifty years.

Today, in terms of prospectives, rather than seasoned older horses who have very restricted opportunities, we also saw the second best horse in the world, in my view - second only to the great mare Winx. And that horse is 'The Autumn Sun.'

When you invest in something, 'gamble' on something, the correct way to 'strategize' about what you are doing is to find the spot where the best outcome is joy, the worst outcome is joy, and the optimum outcome is joy - and if any of them are hitting up against fear, you're doing it wrong.

The Autumn Sun