October
JulyStraw man
Richard Callander, I found your column piece titled "Clutching at straws" disappointing.
It’s hard enough to market a new stallion these days in a saturated market without your two cents’ worth.
While you’re deciding what colour tie you’re going to wear each morning en route to your cosy office, there are people out there trying to earn an honest dollar.
How often do we hear a studmaster describe a new addition as "unlucky" or "could have been anything" or we have to listen to the old chestnut that "the phone has been ringing off the hook with enquiries". It’s all predictable.
In regards to the stallion you mention, whether or not he won a weak maiden and a midweeker by a whisker, essentially he was unbeaten at two as the stud describes. There’s no two ways about it — it’s just fact.
I also find it hilarious that you, of all people, would be commenting on marketing.
This coming from the man who markets himself as an expert tipster yet tips one thing in the Winning Post, changes his mind on raceday, then tells us all about it for five minutes solid once they have passed the post.
Caulfield (Vic)