<div dir="ltr">Ha ha. Or getting tomorrow's papers a day early would do. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 at 10:35, mickbarry mickbarry <<a href="mailto:mickbarry@bigpond.com">mickbarry@bigpond.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><u></u> <div><span style="color:rgb(51,55,50);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">While listening to Sky’s live ‘Thoroughbred Central’ coverage of Wyong races during the week, co-presenter Gary Harley was heard to plead after a particularly lean day on the tip -</span><br style="color:rgb(51,55,50);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)"><span style="color:rgb(51,55,50);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">“Please God help me to pick the winner of the last”.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,55,50);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)"><div><span style="color:rgb(51,55,50);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">Wow I thought, never have I heard that before on a racing program.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,55,50);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">Well it worked.</span></div><span style="color:rgb(51,55,50);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">Whilst the horses were parading Gary must have had a vision.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,55,50);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)"><span style="color:rgb(51,55,50);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">He then changed his original tip to that of Vienna Rain.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,55,50);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)"><span style="color:rgb(51,55,50);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">The angels must also have been listening as the horse was heavily backed in to start favourite.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,55,50);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)"><span style="color:rgb(51,55,50);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">Into the home straight the leader left the fence to let Vienna Rain slip through for an easy win.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,55,50);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)"><span style="color:rgb(51,55,50);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">Gary seemed to forget about his very public prayer when after the race he was heard to say-</span><br style="color:rgb(51,55,50);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)"><span style="color:rgb(51,55,50);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">“I don’t mean to skite but as soon as I saw that horse I ………..”</span><br style="color:rgb(51,55,50);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)"><span style="color:rgb(51,55,50);font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(239,239,239)">May you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you are dead.</span></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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