Leysy Days said:
Like a few tomoz:
Race 5 - Rich Charm
Race 8 - The Tah Mahal
Race 9 - Bons Away
But our bet is Race 7 Secret Blaze $10 Win Pumped up to $10 to hopefully get us $100
GL All.
Really like Rich Charm too Leysy.
got a funny story I'd like to share with you fellas. I know I said my punting year was over, but I still have one small bet each Saturday, just to keep my hand in (rich charm today).
Last week was a really lean week. A busted tractor, a new bull, a tax bill, a prelim loss all caught up with me in a perfect sh!t storm.
I looked in my wallet and I had $10, I looked in the bank and I had $41, I asked mrs, easy how much she had in her purse and she said $1.40, I asked the kids how much ready they had and it wasn't much. Both our cars and the fridge were on empty and it was 5 days until payday.
so I called a family meeting and go
'we have $52.40 to last until next Thursday. We have two choices. 1. eat porridge and rice for 5 days and ride our bikes to work and school (25km), bearing in mind there are a fair few weavels in the oats; or 2. I have our last $52.40 on a fast horse and there's a reasonable chance we live the remainder of the week in the manner in which we are accustom'.
the vote for option 2. was carried unanimously, with the kids exhilarated by the prospect of their invincible dad providing with his wits, but mrs, easy obviously slightly more skeptical, but resigned. Maths isn't her strong suit, but she understood $2 a day per head was almost as useless as $0 a day.
anyway, given the gravity of the situation, I poured over the form and watched some clips for a good 4 hours and decided to have $52.40 the win on Order of Command in the last,
keeping punting rule #23 to myself that 'when you need a winner the most, you are least likely to find one'
after collecting $471, I returned to a hero welcome, with a kilo and a half of king prawns, ensnared in the Ballina river mouth only hours before, and 6 very cold Coronas
I handed mrs, easy just under $400 and said with my straightest face, and in my best Nick Cage in Wild at Heart accent 'buy yourself a new dress baby', we ate like kings (I even opened a frosty corona for my 14 year old and pushed home a wedge of juicy lime, just to provide another sensory angle to his memory; I don't care what any wowser pc lefty police says, moments such as these are life affirming and indeed define families) and I fielded questions from the kids who were struggling to understand why I don't pick
a fast horse the day after payday and just get 8 weeks pay every week?
Punting triumphs such as these are rare indeed brothers and sisters. Savour them, but don't dwell on your genius for more than a moment, because it reenforces the self-loathing reaction when things
don't work out in the ideal manner, which they very often don't.
;D
