<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> </head> <body><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></body></html>