[AusRace] Chance by Andrew Rule

[norsaintpublishing at gmail.com]

Stumbled across it in a library recently Tony and grabbed it for a read.
Some interesting stuff in there. Hard to work out how much poetic
licence had been used.
You've got to wonder about all the ridiculous nicknames used. It's almost a
take off of Damon Runyon, not that I've ever read any of him.


On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 at 20:30, Tony Moffat <tonymoffat at bigpond.com> wrote:

> Mr Rule is a journalist and as such must have/would have/should have access
> to information that we do not. This book seems to be a continuation of a
> newspaper column and so it provides answers to questions it hasn't asked.
>
> It seems he dislikes some persons associated with the racing caper. He may
> well be the only journo who has ridden in a horse race, and won.
>
> It is a good read though and it is recommended as such. Mine cost $9 second
> hand (the benefit of volunteering for the CWA, Northerly) although the full
> price is $34.99.
>
> There are a few, quite a few, incidents detailed in the book whereby the
> players are corrupt, or corrupted, in order to guarantee the winner of a
> horse race.
>
> Often racing tomes are like this, an association with the criminal side of
> society when it seems it, racing society, is not like that at all. (Or am I
> naïve?)
>
> I might write a book and set the record straight.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tony
>
>
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