For those of you planning on doing the rounds at Magic Millions Gold Coast next month .... through a friend, I can put you onto a great physio in Brisbane if your hand/arm/shoulder/back needs TLC after lugging that 2,000-page catalogue around for a couple of weeks.
My friend rationalises why MM haven't split the book into two manageable tomes: "The world according to GH is Harvey Norman. 100 choices of fridges, leg waxers, nasal hair removers – with 24 choices of plasma thrown in as well. Big is better. The buzzing, cluttered marketplace that man evolved in. The bazaar buried deep in the DNA."
Can't argue with that. GH has a billion reasons to show why one book's best.
Bike? Check. Glasses? Check.
Tilly, super cool biker chick.
Melbourne Underbelly?
Looks like it, but actually the Main Man at 'Orange' ... if great coffee, fine food, sumptuous wines, funky atmosphere and fab service are your go, 'Orange' at the Windsor end of Chapel St, Melbourne, is the place. Ask for Anthony and tell him his old man sent you.
SOME RECENT PURCHASES and RECOMMENDATIONS
Thousand Guineas Prelude winner Ortensia, trainer Tony Noonan. Love those nostrils and ears (the filly's).
Fastnet Rock/Rare Insight 2YO colt. Tr J O'Shea
Danzero/Global Dance 2YO colt. Tr G Waterhouse
Canadian 2YO stakeswinner and young broodmare Chelsey's Image (Holy Bull-Lucky Chelsey), in foal to Dylan Thomas (Ire)
Golan/Double Owe 2YO colt, named Double Whisky. Tr C Waller
Redoute's Choice/Volted In 2YO filly. Tr G Waterhouse
Hussonet/Portrayal 2YO filly, named Bolocco Miss. Tr C Waller
Anabaa/Regal Fun 2YO colt. Tr C Waller.
High Chaparral, sire of the Kaapentyne 2YO colt. Tr C Little.
More Than Ready/Rachael's Pride 2YO colt, named Our Corsa. Tr C Waller
Charge Forward/Zerlina 2YO filly, named Passing By. Tr Robert Price
A P Indy's successful sire son Malibu Moon, sire of USA stakeswinner and young broodmare Grant's Moon, booked to Show A Heart.
USA stakeswinner and young broodmare Les Ry Leigh (Broken Vow-Azusa), in foal to Rock Of Gibraltar (Ire)
Hussonet's G1 winning 2YO champion filly La Chiflota
Group winner Rockwood (Rock Of Gibraltar-Foxwood, by Centaine). Tr G Waterhouse
Gr 1 winning mare Absolut Glam (Snowland-Pine Away, by Pine Bluff). Tr D O'Brien.
7 comments:
As a good waman once told me "Its all about Girth!"
I have arthritis in my hands, and complained to Magic Millions last year about the size/weight of the catalogue. I am a buyer, and after receiving this year's catalogue, have decided it will be far more comfortable to purchase in Melbourne...better facilities there as well!
I've just come back from a couple of days in the Hunter Valley. One prominent breeder/buyer told me had had "ripped it in half" already. There seems some dismay up there at the supermarket proportions of the sale. Everything looks like it's on special. Because of the sheer volume of horses, people who like to sift carefully through the offering have next to no chance. So many horses aren't going to get looked at.
I have found that the Catalogues have many uses "after" the sale... stop draughts under doors, prop up bird houses in averies - the list goes on!
Perhaps someone should bring out a book ... "101 uses for MM Catalogues"?
Climate change has created a shortage of mud bricks for housebuilding in the Third World. Throw them into a vat of glue then pull them out to dry - perfect. Make sure you put yours in the Wanless bin before you leave.
Sounds like the catalogues might be full of cattle dogs if there are that many for sale!!!!!
The Sales are always a reflection of financial times.Obviosly now everything is SELL SELL SELL
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