The Silver Fern

@Godder Anybody still read The Beano?

@MiketheSnow said in R.I.P. 2020:

James Drury, The Virginian

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/06/arts/television/james-drury-dies.html

Handsome man, rugged babyface made for black & white westerns. He has a small role in Peckinpah’s “Ride the High Country” shot in colour, one of the best westerns of the sixties, maybe ever, but always takes me “out of reality” a little bit when I see him, because he’s supposed to be in b&w.

@RoninWC said in R.I.P. 2020:

Lee Majors, Lee J. Cobb and Doug McClure to just to name a few of the other most

The Land That Time Forgot. Me and a mate were talking about Doug McLure this past weekend. Troy Donahue + Doug McClure = “Hi, you may remember me from such films as...”

I grew up with the Goodies, and remember eye-popping when I recognized TBT in the original Willy Wonka (same way when I saw Reggie Perrin show up in 2001: A Space Odyssey). In colour, too. All I ever remember was watching Goodies in b&w on TVNZ pre-colorTV-era, like most of the old Doctor Who’s. In my mind they were all b&w. Was the original Brit production filmed in colour or was it always black & white?

Candid snapshot of Johnny Cash before going on stage at Folsom Prison.

This has happened 4 of the last 5 weeks — I make money on the Oz races and 12 hours later donate all of it back to the U.S. tracks.

And so the cycle repeats.

The early $1 Daily Double at Gulfstream today paid $1,500

and the late Daily Double at Oaklawn that finished an hour ago paid out $5.6K on a $2 bet.

Doubles ffs!!

(The $1 Pick 3 paid $17K; the 60-cent Pick 4 (Quaddie) paid $32K; and the 60-cent Pick 5 paid $354K.)

Adeyybb wins the Queen Elizabeth. Japanese horse 2nd. Veery Elleegent possibly third. I had the winner in my Pick3, won $84 on a $21 wager. Meh. Shouldn’t complain. Thank goodness for Etah James is all I can say!

@Salacious-Crumb said in Rough tips and other bets...:

Sydney Cup - Etah James (NZ) win; Chosen One (NZ) 2nd. Should have played the kiwi-exacta.

Ooof, $1 exacta paid $213.40 on my tote.

I’ve got some wide cover in the next leg. I hope a kiwibred wins, but if not, Gailo Chop would make my day in a very big way...

My feed is showing nothing happeningin Doomben. I wanna see the replay of this Cup finish ffs...!!

Sydney Cup - Etah James (NZ) win; Chosen One (NZ) 2nd. Should have played the kiwi-exacta. Yogi was six lengths behind the rest of the field out of the gate.

@Salacious-Crumb said in Rough tips and other bets...:

@Salacious-Crumb said in Rough tips and other bets...:

Etah James ...

He’s got Glenn Boss and 51 Kg, the lightest weight. I’ll have to take him in my multi-race.

Fuckinrightidid!!!

Probabeel didn’t fire at all today in the Oaks, well back. Collette wins, with ease. Toffee Tongue (NZ) did well for 2nd. I took all three in my multis, but that’s not going to pay a lot.

If the Shark hadn’t got the stone bruise in his hoof I probably would have singled him. I’ll cross my fingers, but reckon Veery Elleegent might be the real danger. And fwiw in a small 20 cent Pick 3 I did take both the Japanese horse in the QE and Yogi in their Cup. Go you good thing!!

@Salacious-Crumb said in Rough tips and other bets...:

Etah James ...

He’s got Glenn Boss and 51 Kg, the lightest weight. I’ll have to take him in my multi-race.

I do like several horses near the top, but they’re all carrying weight.

Te Akau Shark, Kolding, Veery Elleegent and Melody Belle are the NZers in the Queen Elizabeth. I think I’ll take all but Kolding and adding Addebbyb and Vow & Declare. Fve is more than enough. Betting against the Japanese import, hoping I don’t regret it. Ideally want to see Opie take it on the Shark, but I’d be delighted if any of the Kiwis win.

@mariner4life said in Rough tips and other bets...:

Yogi will break your heart

I’d already placed him in my “toss” column.

Are you telling me he’ll break my heart if I don’t play him?

Track condition rated as Heavy. No rain in the forecast for Sydney today. They’ve had 25.2 mm precip the past week. How heavy is “Heavy”?

Having a hard time handicapping the Sydney Cup here. The Chosen One (18-1), Yogi (40-1) and Etah James (20-1) are the three Kiwi-breds in the race. Etah James ran a pair of good staying routes at Ellerslie the past couple months, including a 4th in the Auckland Cup in his last... is he worth taking here today??

2nd race at Gulfstream, a 12.5K maiden claimer for three-year-olds. There’s a horse Silver Maker in his third start; was purchased as a yearling for usd$800K. He came 4th. Somebody put in a claim and bought him for the twelve-thousand.

@raznomore I was talking to a musician-writer Gil Scott-Heron in the mid 1980s, and I told him I loved his song “Grandma’s Hands” which he’d released on an album prob. early 80s. He thanked me and said, “yeah, it’s a really beautiful song, thanks. But it’s not mine — it’s Bill Withers’. You have to get that record.” So I did. I’ve added several B.W. lps to my collection since, treasures all.