[Kharon]

"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." – (Mark Twain).

Not going to waste time on CASA’s self gratification; no matter how chuffed Carmody is with himself. We did forecast the results, the clever money won.


An Idyll of Dandaloo. (A B Patterson).

The races came to Dandaloo,
And all the cornstalks from the West
On every kind of moke and screw
Come forth in all their glory drest.
The stranger's horse, as hard as nails,
Look'd fit to run for New South Wales.

He won the race by half a length --
Quite half a length, it seemed to me --
But Dandaloo, with all its strength,
Roared out "Dead heat!" most fervently;
And, after hesitation meet,
The judge's verdict was "Dead heat!"

And many men there were could tell
What gave the verdict extra force.
The stewards -- and the judge as well --
They all had backed the second horse.
For things like this they sometimes do
In larger towns than Dandaloo.