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As you probably know, such characters seem to find their way into the horse world, especially thoroughbreds.

I've watched a fair few of these guys, whom I've had contact with through my job, come and go, including Tinkler, Connell, Holmes a Court, Bond, and many, many others... and absolutely tonnes more of the minor players.

It's the ego, it gets them every time.
 

Maybe the lesson there is don't invest in companies run by race horse owners.

They are gamblers, usually with other people's money.
 
SirRumpole said:
Maybe the lesson there is don't invest in companies run by race horse owners.

They are gamblers, usually with other people's money.
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Fair assumption!

But it's *how* you go about it.

"Horsetrader" is a cracking read about how to make a Motza... The story of Robert Sangster and the Mahktoums(sp?)

That dynasty survives to this day under the stewardship of John Magnier across several continents.

*Sharp*
 
A great book for you to write Wayne, "How to paint a racehorse" .lol
 
sptrawler said:
A great book for you to write Wayne, "How to paint a racehorse" .lol
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So this is the way you got your tonne of Gold..who you know....
As for Tinkler, i doubt anyone who has been a billionaire on paper has not been able to put aside a lazy 4 or 5 millions.you know,what you and i would see as ultimate wealth...
 
Bondy certainly seemed to resume a pretty lavish lifestyle when he got out of the slam.

A client (who was part of that whole WA corporate cowboy scene) I had when I was over in WA, wrote a book called Retribution. It was allegedly fictional, but the only fiction were the names of the characters. Bond, Connell, Burke, et al, all immediately recognizable. LOL

But yep, I've got enough material in my head to write a Cooperesque classic
 
Anyone else been good enough at gaming their system(s) to get booted off them?

 

The Hydro Majestic Hotel still personally garages the Arnage on trips to the Blue Mountains but Mark Foys is long gone.

Times change.

gg
 
Dona Ferentes said:
My brother's ex-wife used to work at Sizzlers. Am amazed it took 25 years to go broke.
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it’s been a slow bleed for years, as a 90’s kid I have lots of fond memories of sizzlers pasta and desert bars, but I guess the novelty slowly wore off.
 
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