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S Autridge, Skeptics Sept A Jones, E Jones, NZ Warriors, Lorde, D Garner, Skeptics, I Adesanya, F Endacott, Witchdoctors, NRLW, M Moroney Aug N Taurua, Luxon, red ink racing, drink spiker, Chutney Man, 1973 Herald July RWC, Pakurangas, Durian, K Allan, M Davidson, $26 winner, A Rodley, Mushrooms, R Walsh June J Mac, China, subs, S Dixon, Inspector, M Wood, N Cleary, S Pateman, J Wino May Harry, Nov 023, R Taylor, A Peebles, Biblical Dan, G Robertson, Murrayjuana, cheating refs, B Sharrock, Harry April Warriors, Trudy, M Lee, November 023, J Kah, Rammies, Skeptics, Ardern, D Trump, B Barrett, TAB, M Richardson, March Harry, G Stead, W Bennett, K Williamson, Mr Whippy, R Nadal, Little Johnny, Polyunsaturated, B McCullum Feb K Hurrell, On Cue, H Plumley, M Crowe, rapists, Hipkins, warnings Jan Ardern, racing ripoffs, William, L M Presley, D Ellis, Zombies, J Richards, Australia, holidays
2022 notables: Dec: China, C Jillings, K Richards, N Mahuta, B Sharrock, E Jones, Neymar, Harry, M Meninga, J Richards Nov: L Ko, D Fisher, R Lang, C Luxon, M King, R Sunak Oct: M Zuckerberg, L Truss, O Bosson, J Taumalolo, K.I.W.I, Ardern, Meghan, I Cleary Sept: S Weatherley, Harry, Queen Liz, P Holmes, C George, C Thornton, Aug: I Foster, D Ellis, T Thornton, T Hughes, D Martin, M Cameron, C Luxon, L Molloy, M Devlin, Jacinda July: I Foster, S Johnson, A Little, A Smith, B Fittler, J Kirwan, J Plumtree, R Walsh, D Dunn, J Wino June: Tonga, I Cleary, Louis, Faafoi + Mallard, D Young, R Herbert, J McGregor, 2023 ! Amber H May: L Innes, S Jones, K Williamson, Jacinda, S Weatherley, W Walters, L Rokela, J Pender, breast cancer April: C George, J Wells, A Little, B Howard-Smith, Queen Liz, J Campbell, S Johnson, C Hipkins, S Currie March: G Simon, Neve, C Luxon, Clarkie, Jacinda, D Barker, O Bosson Feb: J Pender, K Williamson, M Zuckerberg, C Gayford Jan: Meatloaf, W Bennett, D Nowell, B Tamaki, Andrew, Entriviere, No Vax, $27 winner, D Johnson
2021 notables: Dec: Sheikh Mo, Holy Buybull, J Richards, Trudy, M Verstappen, A Patel, C Luxon Nov: M Devlin, 2022 Predictions, I Foster, P Moody, J Richards, C George, Oct: K.I.W.I, B Tamaki, O Bosson, Incentivise, rapist jockey Sept: R Walsh, M Vance, J Waddell, Dame Julie, T Robinson Aug: M Meninga, C George, P Sterling, Shamsa, O Podmore, RLWC July: D Harvey, M Meninga, M Devlin, C Chipperfield, B Speck, Lebcam, S Phelan, J Waddell, S Johnson June: T Muller, K Walters, Lillibet, G Walters, J Waddell, N Smith, A Brotherston, N Osaka, A Sharrock May: M Devlin, Firehorses, K Williamson, M Vatuvei, Harry April Prince Simon, A Little, L Ko, Taumalolo, March: Icetralia, J Spithill, G Dalton, Sonny Bill, Sheikh M, C Waller, M King Feb: Harry, H Wynyard, The Ox, P Payne Jan: G Webb, M Purdon, D Barker, B Johnson
2020 notables: Dec: The Nanny, J Spithill, Australia, F Adams, USA, Nov: D Boyd, M Purdon, J Waddell, J Biden, W Bennett Oct K Williamson, C Lammas, Chutney man, E Watson, Winx, G.O.A.T, Australia, Sept: S Johnson, Longshots, M Trump, Tonga, W Bennett Aug: V Kohli, Sonny Bill, M Coleman, Kirwan, molloy July: Falloony, C Gayford, Crusher, Pr Andrew, M Coleman June: C Waller, S Kearney, Feeney, NZ future, Hosking, May: N Kaye, T Muller, A Jones, S Cane, H Holt, T Ihaka April: R Branson, USA, NZ chart, R Castle, Lebcam March: Boris J, Ice elation, Chloe, Dildo, Sheikh M, Sigh man, Rat, Golriz Feb: Catholics, I Folau, W Peters, psychedelics, Jan: K Williamson, Scomo, Meghan,D E Ws, Fire Horses, Australia.
2019 notables: Dec: P Magasiva, K Rutherford, D Rennie, Nov: J Feeney, Epstein, E Jones, Tonga, Oct: R Castle, S Hansen Sept: J Ward, G Dalton, H Bowman, S Dowie Aug: C George, N Brown, Prince Andrew, L Ko July: Kirwanker, K Williamson, Sheik Mohammed June: P Gould, A Joshua, M Vance May: I Folau, C Waller, H Bowman, J Waddell April: Mosque, M Markle March: C McGregor, Jacinda, SBW, M Jackson, G Pell Feb: M Rewa, Jiggers, D Weir, C Ronaldo Jan: C Slater, A Kerber, G Murray, Certainties
2018 notables Dec: S Watson, G Pell, E Watson, M Barry, Cannabis aphrodisiac Nov: S Johnson, J Waddell, S Johnson, A Merkel Oct: S Bridges, Prince Harry, A Sharrock, C Ronaldo, J Lee Ross, A Little Sept: Mushrooms, The Pope, J Hopoate, R Federer, J Key, J Ardern Aug: K Rutherford, M Turnbull, G Boyed, S Bridges, O Bosson, J Feeney, E Watson, J Waddell July: K MacDonald, S Williams, D Carter, Neymar, Buddha June: K Foran, S Pateman, M Hesson, F Bainimarama May: M Trump, S Watson, T Street, S Autridge, P Mitchell, E Watson, April: S Adams, M Pearce, O Bosson,A Joshua, R Smerdon, Mar: G Pell,S Johnson, S Smith, M McCallion, C Gayford, S Bridges, Feb: Rehabakaka, J Kirwan, NZ Warriors, W Peters Jan: P Bennett, Jacinda, R Smerdon, D Logan.
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THE HALL OF FAME
October 7
To honour the amazing predictions in 2023, the Astrological Hall of Fame has created a couple of new berths.
2 sensations were selected to join subjects of amazing prophecy like Wayne Hillis, Stephen Autridge, Graham Henry, Martin Crowe, Mike Hesson, Jarrod McCracken, Wayne Bennett, Prince Harry, Grant Dalton. and the nation of Australia.
The newcomers are at opposite ends of the usefulness scale:
WORLD FIRSTS
November 2017 Annual Prophecies:
' Hurrell, Konrad:
Rugby League star over the Neptune bads of 2017. Positive Saturn trines for Feb, June, Nov of 2018 before his biggest year from a pinnacle of progressions around Oct 2019.'
Comical Konrad was in the Tongan team that beat Great Britain 14-6 in a first-ever on October 26, 2019. And ' around Oct ' included that 16-12 stunner on the 2nd day of November, when Tonga also beat Australia for the first time !
MENTAL ILLNESS
www.donmurrayastrologer.com, May 31, 2021
' With ( Martin ) Devlin's Mercury position ( Aquarius 14.39 ) getting a few rammings from erratic Uranus in unfriendly Taurus. July, August and September are crucial months, when Devlin's thoughts and communicating will be much weirder than usual. And his emails.
3 months of gardening leave wouldn't be a bad idea......'
On July 24, troubled broadcaster Devlin was found unconscious after attempting to take his own life.
The elite dozen follow the 2023 prophecies at http://www.donmurrayastrologer.com/predictions.html
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OUR $8.50 WINNER
October 5
The plundering continued at Tauranga on Wednesday with Astrological Hall of Famer Stephen Autridge.
For several years trainer S Autridge had been slotted in for October 4. He accepted with 2 runners, both in the same maiden race. As soon as Fixed Odds were available around 4 pm the day before, clients were emailed and they pounced on Livid Sky ( $8.50 ) and Midnight Monarch ( $31.00 ).
Livid Sky came in to around $5 before braining them on Wednesday. Taking our record since January 2019 to 8 wins from 21 investments. With an average win dividend of $12.42 on a 38% winning strike rate.
Our plundering of this decadent, once-proud industry shall continue. It's fun emulating the master trainers I worked for or interviewed in the golden 1970s.They would use secret track gallops, hook-up jobs and fibs to the trackwatchers and pressmen in order to get a healthy dividend. I just concentrate on finding awesome Uranus days for people from the planet book.
S Autridge earned himself a spot in the Astrological Hall of Fame after being the initial long-range certainty, almost 30 years ago !
FRIDAY FLASH, October 30, 1992:
' I'll be surprised if punters don't make a fortune backing runners from Stephen Autridge's stable on February 6, July 23 and November 28 next year.'
Trainer S R Autridge did not have runners on the first two dates but his only starter on November 28,1993, Matsqui, won and returned a $22.65 win dividend !
Anyone can join us. As Pablo Picasso so wisely claimed “The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” And it's so much fun beating the system.
Watch number 10 in the green and blue who was slow early:
https://loveracing.nz/RaceInfo/52281/5/Race-Detail.aspx
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BARNETT'S WIFE AND EARLY CANCER DETECTION
October 4
You would think the world would be interested in early detection of cancer, wouldn't you ?
Cancer is apparently quite awful, but also a massive earn for the drug makers. Who don't really mind the losers and their fund-raising campaigns, plus there are plenty of horror stories in their media to keep the great unwashed living in fear. As per last weekend's Herald ugliness:
' Radio and TV star Simon Barnett’s wife Jodi has battled brain cancer for more than five years but doctors have now given her just weeks to live. A devastated Barnett and his four daughters invite editor-at-large Shayne Currie into their home to tell Jodi’s story, and to pay tribute to a ‘perfect’ wife, mother, and matriarch: ‘I’ve cried bucket loads’.'
Fact: Barnett is not a ' radio and TV star, ' he is an institutionalised media puppet. And we know all about those things, especially in the saga of Herald lifer ' snotty-nosed Jane ' Phare here on September 8. As per Phare having a predicted ' major life change in a couple of years time ' which coincided with her much-publicised bout of breast cancer !
Fact: If snotty-nosed Jane hadn't been so lazy, Mrs Barnett could have been saved.
Many years later Phare was reminded about my great prediction. She claimed that breast cancer wasn't ' life changing, ' then went on the attack and also claimed that I did not predict the birth of her son. An impossible task, since I didn't even know her birthdate when the child arrived !
This is what you're up against, poor Keen Interest Without Intelligence. Such a reply is typical of these dirty old puppet-wage earners with very fragile egos. When Phare began her 45 years of Heralding back in the 1970s, investigative journalism was big and delving reporters from the now defunct rival Auckland Star brought about the release of the wrongly-convicted Arthur Allan Thomas.
Investigative journalism has been dumped in the cemetery as the New World Order media system changes. I continue to delve, as I did 42 years ago this month when my first Astrologeress blew me away with facts about my nature and past, especially identifying my caesarean section birth.
I was born with a clean 6th House, and consequently no major health issues, but have done plenty of work on this with clients. It's been discovered that a dirty 6th House with heavies like Pluto and Uranus etc causes major health problems like cancer, asthma, diabetes, leukaemia etc.
Quite amazing that all of these can be detected minutes after birth. With terms and conditions also applying to birth, as we consider one of the greats from the November 2019 Annual Prophecies, www.donmurrayastrologer.com :
' Holt, Hayley:
Broadcaster-reformed alcoholic in danger of another serious meltdown with Neptune-Mars harassment. March, Sept and Jan 021 the crucial months.'
In 2020 Holt had a miscarriage. Non-client/disbelievers like Mike King, Martin Devlin, Tony Veitch and disgraced jockey Jason Waddell have also been the subject of phenomenal, public prophecies involving their great depressions. It's even funnier that just 10 minutes of Astrological enlightenment has convinced so many clients, including 7 or 8 national sports champions !
Rather ironically, Barnett and Phare have more in common than being wage-earning media lifers. They have both been booked for berths in next month's Annual Prophecies:
' Barnett, Simon:
Veteran broadcaster in need of monitoring with destructive Pluto attacking his Mars. April, May and Jan 025 crucial, with Pluto-Venus attack 025 as well.'
' Phare, Jane:
Massive personal restructuring for the lifer journo from destructive Pluto attacking her Mars. Feb, June and Jan 025 crucial.'
Lest we never forget the words of Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine, around 400 b.c when he decided that ' a physician who doesn't use Astrology is a fool, not a physician.'
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SILENCING THE SKEPTICS
October 2
Are those scowling old skeptics coming to their senses ?
Back on September 14, I revealed the threats from NZ Skeptics Inc: ' Please stop spamming our posts with your irrelevant links. If you don't stop, we will have no option but to block you from our page. -- Craig '
On Sept 16, this link was posted on the Skeptics site:
Truth v NZ Skeptics ..http://www.donmurrayastrologer.com/news.html
All about the laziness of cowards who run from the truth, and the names of 10 sports and racing personalities who've been the subjects of amazing prophecy. All fitting with the Skeptics motto: ' Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. '
Only a truly sad ' pakuranga hunt ' could cringe away from the horse racing certainty forecast 5 years, 4 months and 3 days in advance. That would return a $9.80 win dividend on Melbourne Cup day 2017 !
17 days later my post is still there, without a single comment. Unlike a previous debate, which ended with a spastic suggestion:
David Mans: Don Murray Challenge to Don: Next predicted 100:1 - re-mortgage your house and put down $100,000.'
Maybe the skeptics are having a serious meeting ? Trying to decide if Don should be banned or believed ? With more sad news from their site, about the filthy South African racist Heather du Plessis Allan having one of those sad skeptics on her Newstalk ZB show earlier this year !
The very Newstalk ZB that promoted the wonders of Astrology so heavily with the Murray Deaker show for 18 consecutive years. You can't con people on live radio, with the ravings from Deaker about the ' Astrologer extraordinaire, ' and thousands of people were fortunate to be introduced to the great enlightenment. Just a memory now.
You could feel sorry for poor old Keen Interest Without Intelligence. The honest taxpayer who put his faith in the ' New Zealand way '--- learning to worship things like dirty old Holmo and plastic tits Dawson, Sir Johnny Wino and medication Mikey, Team NZ, the All Blacks and occasionally the Warriors --- but suffered terribly from the Covid disaster, the earthquakes and flooding.
Or you could just laugh at the dumb bastards, remembering that you can't help stupid if he/she don't want to be helped.
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BIRTHDAYS
October 1
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Gerard Peterson 68 Russell Warwick 65 Deborah Hughes 60 Grant Elliot 57 Brendan Greig 56 Amber Riddell 23
Monday: David Peake 78 Laura Tunnell 41
Tuesday: Don Pye 84 Lester Morris 83 Butch Glover 79 Kevin Langby 77 David Walsh 64 Todd Woodward 53 Mark Du Plessis 48 David Browne 45 Catherine Tetzlaff 39
Thursday: Dave O’Sullivan 90 Ernie Griffiths 78 Phillip Smith 69 Graham Hare 67
Friday: Jim Didham 85 Mick Goreham 75 Murray Kennedy 71 Brad Stewart 47 Charlie Studd 45 Kim Davidson 44
Saturday: Carol Delamore 73 Tony Gillies 72 Des Harris 71 Peter Snowden 67 Hollie Wynyard 36
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THE AUSSIE PAEDO NETWORK
September 29
I've read some amazing books on corruption in Australia.
This joker's unauthorised biography is mind blowing:
' One of the most prolific paedophile priests to go unpunished for his crimes in Australia was Monsignor John Day. He received more than 100 complaints in the Towards Healing program, an organisation set up to deal with allegations of abuse in the church.'
Abe Saffron's unauthorised biography has some beauties, too. Including the blackmailing of Sir Frank Packer, who was captured with a little boy by the 2-way mirror !
Many years later, Sir Frank's son, Kerry Packer, had a blackmail threat from broadcaster Alan Jones, when he' d been busted for little boy activities in France. Kerry had to pull strings with the French authorities to get Jonesy released from jail, otherwise Jonesy was gonna blow the whistle on Kerry's paedo activities !
A touch of irony here, considering the blasting that Wallabies' coach Eddie Jones is getting at the moment. When unrelated Alan Jones got sprung in the motel in France, he was also coaching the Wallabies !
So it wasn't really a surprise when some other very notable names got a mention in the amazing 22 minutes video below.
With reasons why the NRL shun the involvement of rich and powerful paedos like John Singleton and Alan Jones. Experienced Aussie league men in the 1990s had some horrific tales of the pervert Jones, who loved talking to young players while they were showering, when he coached Balmain.
Plenty of other notable Aussie names like Turnbull, Kennedy, Laws, Howard, Hadley, Hawke, Whitlam, Menzies, Burke, Bell, Newton, Meldrum, Carr, Wran, Nicole Kidman's father and the Costello brothers etc
https://www.facebook.com/ray.benzino.3386/videos/575822491382569
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THERE'S HOPE FOR EDDIE JONES !
September 27
Nothing can match this amazing, ancient science, so favourably recommended by the father of modern medicine, Hippocrates ( c. 460 – c. 370 BC. )
Especially when it comes to knowing when the unproductive phases shall end. Consider a couple of NRL personnel who appeared in the November 2021 Annual Prophecies:
Walters, Kevin:
More problems for the NRL coach with Uranus-Mercury and Pluto Node complications. June particularly horrific, also Oct.
Walsh, Reece:
Many upsets for NRL young gun with Pluto attacking his Mars. Feb, June, Dec notable.
Kev's Brisbane Broncos finished 9th in 2022, and Walshy had major relationship break-ups with his missus and the NZ Warriors. Then Pluto and Uranus stopped wreaking their havoc before the 2023 season began. Now R Walsh is one of the superstars in K Walters' team and they're both heading for Sunday's Grand Final.
Down on September 19 we were considering ' million-to-one Eddie ' Jones after his Wallabies got shocked out by Fiji. Last Monday morning he was front page again !
The Wallabies were all but knocked out of the Rugby World Cup this morning following a 40-6 defeat to Wales - which looks set to be the first time they’ll fail to make the quarter-final stage at the tournament. Eddie Jones’ side were completely outclassed to be handed their biggest loss at a World Cup.
You could imagine how Eddie Jones is feeling at the moment. In the analysis on September 19, it's rather coincidental that all the Neptune-Jupiter stress supervised his dumping from the England coaching job. And Neptune-Node problems with his Australian job at the moment, but all those shall be gone come next January ! And the erratic genius Uranus takes over.
Eddie's Node ( Virgo 25 ) is getting the harassment from confusing Neptune ( Pisces 25 ) at present. Virgo's great mate Taurus currently has erratic genius Uranus as a house guest. With awesome Uranus-Node phases filling E Jones with positivity from Taurus 25 around June and November next year, and April in 2025. Then speedy Uranus zooms into Gemini, whose buddy Aquarius has the Sun of Eddie Jones as a tenant, somewhere between 8.40 and 9.40 degrees !
Meaning that Eddie's gonna benefit extremely from the powerful Uranus-Sun trine between July 2027 and May 2028. October 2027 is a very fortunate month for E Jones. And also when the Rugby World Cup is going full bore in his native land !
The chances of E Jones getting retained by Aussie for the next 4 years would be about a milllion to one as well. But it doesn't matter what Eddie Jones is doing in 2027, he's gonna be a lot happier than now. And whatever team he is coaching will do a lot better than expected.
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WARRIORS SWEET FOR 2025-26
September 25
The rare lateness of a very regular Laos lady was noted by a Monk at the Temple lunch yesterday.
I told the Monk that ' Karma Lady ' had stayed up late to watch the NZ Warriors' game, and she was so devastated by the result that she was unable to sleep. For several seconds he seemed to believe me. Of course Buddhist beauties have no interest in such an aggressive activity, the lateness was simply a daylight-saving error, and soon after the Monk was full of laughter.
While many fans were very devastated after the Wahs got battered 42-12 by the Broncos in Saturday night's semi-final. But they surprised everybody in 2023, and did manage to win their first, and only, play-offs game in 12 years.
They made the top 4, and I had already labelled them for much bigger things in 2025 and 2026.Courtesy of current assistant coach Stacey Jones benefiting from awesome Pluto trines in those years. The little legend has experienced 4 Pluto-trine years in his head-coach life and won 3 premierships---with NZ Warriors Juniors, and Point Chevalier Pirates twice, in the Auckland competition.
The owner Mark Robinson is to be blessed with an array of amazing progressions through 2025 and 26. Positive activity in the several months preceding July and September of 2025, with November a time of great achievement. 2026 has major highs for Robbo approaching April and August, also January 2027.
Returning superstar Roger Tuivasa-Sheck's disappointing 2023 in rugby was predicted. And it has been previously noted that R T S has an amazing 2026 on the horizon, when big hitters Pluto and Uranus are both positively trining his Jupiter position !
Like all with a January 17 birthday, coach Andrew Webster shall benefit from an awesome Uranus-Sun trine in 2024. No time known, after a request to the media person, so I shall have to visit him at training, and re-enact a day there in late March, 2009.
When the Warriors were 2-2 and top of the ladder. I introduced myself to then coach Ivan Cleary, explained the purpose and that the later he was born, the better it was for 2011.
' 11 p.m ' was the reply, with confirmation that there was no need to confirm it further, but I did detect a WTF ? from Ivan about waiting 2 more years. Perfect ! said the Sorcerer later, because the late birth time confirmed that I Cleary would be benefiting from an awesome Pluto-Moon trine in 2011 !
Then it all went wrong in 2009. Late August, the Warriors are struggling in 14th place and Sir Mad Butcher hauls me onto the podium in his lounge at Mt Smart and wants to know how the stars are for their last home game. I was more interested in the new season, so I suggested to Mad that he ' stop pulling that thing down there ' and pull some strings at the Warriors ! So they've got John Ackland as head coach and Stacey Jones his assistant, because they had awesome Pluto trines in the next 2 years, insisting that present coach Ivan Cleary to be kept on for 2011 with his Pluto buzz as well !
Ackland went from Cleary's assistant to sole charge of the Juniors. Player Jones was released and took up a coaching position with Pt Chevalier Pirates in the Auckland 3rd division. Ackland's Juniors won their NRL Grand Finals for a club first in 2010, and 2011. Jones' Pirates won the 3rd and 2nd division premierships in consecutive years. And Cleary's top side made the 2011 Grand Final !
Since then ? Twice into the final 8, for the one win. But a Golden era is about to begin, as long as they retain the above-mentioned. Even without a birth time, coach Webster still has Uranus trining, and Neptune sextiling, his Venus very positively between May 026 and April 027. Another coaching staffer Richard Agar is of January 20 arrival, so he gets his awesome Uranus-Sun trine in 2025.
At this stage it's looking like Grand Final appearances in 2025 and 2026 at least.
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BIRTHDAYS
September 24
Birthdays of notable racing people this week
Sunday: Peter Macken 85 George Merkulov 81 Jim Waterson 73 Raymond Connors 46 John Allen 39 Monday: Doug Messingham 78 Fabian Alesci 49 Paul Gallagher 37 Tuesday: Shane Dye 57 Sean Cameron 56 Blake Shinn 36 Wednesday: Alan Johnson 77 Craig Carmody 56 Brendan McCullum 42 Ben Ropiha 38 Thursday: Shane Scriven 58 Tracey Bliss and Sharlene Cullen 51 Friday : John O'Shea 54 Michelle Payne 38 Saturday: Gordon Spinks 76 Matthew Enright 54 Tony Veitch 50 Aaron Taylor 47 Joao Moreira 39 |
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LORDE'S ' MENTAL PROBLEMS ' OF ' AUG '
September 23
Lorde has given her fans a bittersweet new update in her latest newsletter.
Explaining her heartbreak, Lorde writes: “It’s different but the same. I ache all the time, I forget why and then remember. I’m not trying to hide from the pain, I understand now that pain isn’t something to hide from, that there’s actually great beauty in moving with it. But sometimes I’m sick of being with myself.”
She adds that she has tried to ease the pain and “manipulate the endorphins” by eating chocolate, however it appears to have had the opposite effect as the Grammy winner says “my body is really inflamed”.
“My gut isn’t working properly, my skin is worse than ever, I’ve gotten sick half a dozen times. I realised earlier this year that listening to my body is hard for me, it’s something I never really learned how to do.” The star goes on to say she has stopped taking the “little yellow pill” that she has taken each morning since she was 15. While she doesn’t confirm what she is referring to, it may be a reference to a prescription antidepressant.
Of course we are not surprised, after the appearance in last November's Annual Prophecies !
' Lorde:
Serious mental problems from Mars-Saturn attack Aug. Needs monitoring in April, and Jan 024 as well.'
Remembering that Lorde has been diagnosed with a serious Mars-Pluto negative in her natal chart. So often possessed by those with anger management and substance abuse issues, putting her in esteemed company. Others born with the Mars-Pluto energy block include Muhammed Ali, Oprah Winfrey, John McEnroe, Lisa-Marie Presley and legendary sex offenders Harvey Weinstein, Woody Allen and Roman Polanski. Plenty of alcoholics, and notable Australians Chopper Read and Greg Hall.
And an ex-jockey mate, discharged from hospital after ticker problems with ' Give up drinking and smoking ' from the doctor. Half an hour later he was in the pub.
Rather ironically, progressed Mars and Pluto are currently at war in the NZ chart until December, creating more angries than ever. But as we know so well, only Astrology gives real hope and the tide is turning for aching Lorde.
She'll be bouncing back in 2024, as the beneficiary of awesome Uranus trines to her Moon and Midheaven point. Then back in the doldrums again in 2026, though, with more major aches from Uranus assaulting her Mars.
' A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.' -- Hippocrates
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DUNCAN GARNER v THE MONK
September 21
Last Sunday at Temple lunch the head Buddhist Monk for NZ sought a favour from ' Lung Don.'
This Thailand-born gentleman wanted someone to support applications for 2 fellow Monks to extend their time in New Zealand.
Monks are very humble people, who own nothing and practice celibacy and temperance. They pray, chant and bless people. The community provides their daily meal, lunch at 11 a.m. They avoid vanity and competitiveness, and the dearth of stress from employers, landlords and families allows them to make good judgements.
I've often compared the Monks' lifestyle to that of my pet kittens, so it's natural for them to gain the psychic power and 6th sense of cats, dogs, horses etc and some humans.
Naturally there was a ' yes ' to the request, and I replied that I would state that these men had all the right attributes to be a Kiwi male. They love the All Blacks and watch every Warriors game and prefer going to the pub to argue about sport than spending time with the wife and kids, wherever they may be.
' Perfect ! ' declared the Master. Knowing that I would go home and email him proper references, using words like ' honest, reliable, and of fine principles.' Then have another read of an article on the fellow who inspired my statement at the Temple.
A Monk equivalent of New Zealand, a radio ' editor-in-chief ' with thousands of adoring fans and important enough recently to be the NZ Herald's lead story !
' Duncan Garner: Why I refuse to vote in a general election '
The ' master ' to thousands is aged 49 , and has never lived abroad, spending nearly 30 years wallowing in the NZ media industry. He's got 4 kids to 3 different women and isn't renowned for being a devoted father. Just recently ' Dunga ' was living with his mother, and in his car.
Remembering that Dunga's role is to make waves and controversy, angries and argument. The Monk is happiest when there is peace, co-operation and healthy food.
Buddhists often mock the ' Farang culture, ' even without knowing about the hero-worshipping of things like Garner, Hosking, Holmes, Feeney or the ' Topper twins, ' Veitch and Devlin, etc ! ' You guys don't look after your old people, ' noted a Laotian plasterer.
' We do so ! We dump them in rest homes ' was the reply. Whereas the Buddhists love to have as many generations at the Temple as possible. Like a great-grandmother named Cai, who doesn't speak a word of English but always greets me with a big grin. Remembering her learning, through an interpreting daughter, that Kai is the Maori word for food.
Many are the residents in the Chocolate Triangle region with little or no English. Like the waitress at Yum Cha lunch one day, when I asked my Chinese companions if they could ask her for the recipe of the scrumptious Turnip cake I had just tasted. In return, I would teach her English.
After some discussion, the reply was: ' She doesn't want to learn English but she will give us the turnip cake recipe.'
They live with Chinese/Korean/Cambodian/Vietnamese/Indian/Thai/Laotian etc people, work, shop and socialise with them. No reason to stray from their wonderful, superior cultures. Plus English is such a difficult language.
And the chances of being poisoned by things like Garner, Hosking, Feeney or the Topper twins etc are very slim if you don't understand a word of English !
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' MILLION TO ONE EDDIE '
September 19
Every man and his blog is having a wank about Australian rugby's first beating by Fiji in 69 years.
Bloggers just grizzle and moan about what happened. Astrologer's use facts, and it is fact that Australia were ' Donalded ' for the 2023 RWC the minute they hired Eddie Jones. Obviously with a birth time for Eddie and the Fijian coach this great upset could have been forecast.
With a recent reminder here on July 31 last:
' Footnote: Australia is a million to one with Donbet, and drifting for the RWC after this epic in the November 2021 Annual Prophecies:
' Jones, Eddie:
Rugby coach hampered by Neptune-Jupiter complications in April, Aug and Feb 023. With Neptune-Node complications in Oct 023 as well. ' '
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BAR-BRAWL CLOBBER AND THE SWABBER
September 16
NZ's very dysfunctional Racing Integrity Board had to prosecute one of their own recently.
A night on the booze turned ugly for swabbing steward Nicole Lloyd:
1.2 Information A15764 Alleges that; On the 12th of August 2023, at the Racecourse Hotel, Riccarton, Nicole Lloyd, Class B Trainer, did misconduct herself by assaulting Harness Trainers, Cheree Wigg and Alan Edge. This behaviour being in breach of Rule 340 and subject to the general penalties set down in 803(1) of the Rules of Racing.
Ms Lloyd frankly admitted the breach and has an outstanding record in regard to any charges in a racing context over a period of 19 years. A fine of $900 was imposed, and as a result of the charge, Ms Lloyd has resigned from her position of a swabbing steward, which will cause a level of financial distress.
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BIRTHDAYS
September 17
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: John O'Connor 83 John Meagher 75 Jonathan Riddell 45
Monday: Danny Frye 60 Ryan Moore 40
Tuesday: Mel Schumacher 86 Rodney Heaslip 75 Finbarr Leahy 51 Shane Udy 50 Chad Northcott 49
Wednesday: Margaret McDonald 74 Allan Smith 62 Andrea Leek 51 Vinnie Colgan and Mark Sweeney 48 Mitchell Beer 35 Jasmine Fawcett 30
Thursday: Grant Tucker 62 Mark Chittick 53
Friday: Helen Page 71 Graeme Swann 68 Susie Sargent 61 Malcolm Pay 59 Darian Gedge 52
Saturday: Brett Prebble 46 Ryan Hurdle 29
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' THEY CAN BULLY AND CONTROL HUMANS, BUT NOT THE PLANETS.'
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THE FORTUNATE RACING PEOPLE
September 16
The best things in life are Pluto trines.
That's when the planet of revolution is assisting a position 120 degrees away. Like from 2024, for 20 years, Pluto shall be in Aquarius and helping the positions of his good friends Libra and Gemini. With milder assistance to Aries and Sagittarius from 60 degree sextiles.
I've found these Pluto trines very helpful when starting a new business, gaining National recognition or setting World records. And when reassuring clients that there is light at the end of the dark tunnel. One favourite:
On Sunday, September 11, 2006 I phoned 49 year-old Wanganui-based freezing worker and horse racing enthusiast Alexander Fieldes and told him I wanted to swap places with him for 2 years, because of the awesome Pluto-Moon trine he would be experiencing. Including some fame or achievement.
“ So what’s in it for me if I suddenly become Don Murray ? ” Alexander asked.
For starters, I explained, tonight he would be the guest of 4 young black African ladies at the Ethiopian New Year’s celebrations in a hall in New Lynn. “ Pass ” was the reply.
Along came Capecover, part-owned and trained by A R A Fieldes. 6 weeks after the Ethiopian festivities he won the 2nd of his 16 races, and would amass over $1 million in prizemoney. There were some big wins in Australia and the continued success had A Fieldes swapping his white freezing worker gumboots for Gucci in the mounting yard at the 2009 Melbourne Cup when Capecover made the final field.
There are zillions of Pluto stories. Like telling rugby league player Tony Tatupu about his upcoming elevations for 1995 and 96. His Auckland Warriors contract increased by 600% with Super League, he represented NZ and Western Samoa, and ‘ Taps ’ became a father under the awesome Pluto-Sun trine.
A fellow extra in the rugby movie Skin'n'Bone in 2003 named Nick got alerted to his majors the following year. Like an awesome Pluto-Sun trine that might bring him some bigger movie roles ? Instead, as ' Nick Evans ' this guy became an All Black in 2004 !
Even amidst the Covid catastrophes, 2 separate clients were given the green light and launched successful business ventures. Both, a 21 year-old Chinese girl, and a 41 year-old Indian with his wife, found good reason to come around and tell me all about it .
We know all about NZ's upcoming, horrific 2023-24 summer. We also know that Pluto and his colleagues keep operating, with their usual positives and negatives. With some very positive improvement for the following horse racing personnel in 2024:
Horse trainers Stephen Autridge, Mark Brooks, Sean and Emma Clotworthy, Raymond Connors, Grant Cooksley, Ken Harrison, Todd Mitchell, Tarissa McDonald, Mark Oulaghan, Aaron Tata, Nigel and Lee Tiley, John Wheeler, Karen Zimmerman, Reece Cole and his jockey partner Emily Farr.
Beneficiaries of awesome Pluto trines over the Tasman next year include gun trainer Peter Moody and lesser lights Tony Parker and Catherine Hutchinson. And all persons with May 20,21,22 and September 22,23,24 birthdays shall be receiving the Pluto-Sun advancement in 2024.
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TRUTH v NZ SKEPTICS
September 14
This predicted, upcoming recession is starting to get brutal.
Much more to come. For many losers, ' Good fucking job ! ' is the only verdict possible. Because
“ One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. ”
― C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
And you know all about facts, don't you NZ ? Astrological facts, like those horse racing certainties going back 33 years, the 18 years of Newstalk ZB shows with Murray Deaker ONZM, the sensational All Black prophecies and Deaker's raving about the great science etc.
A few months back I noticed the NZ Skeptics mob attempting to poison the nation with their negativity. I went to their Facebook page and showed them the G.O.A.T prophecy, that prediction on July 4, 2012 about the horse racing certainty predicted for November 7, 2017 that produced a $9.80 win dividend.
Nobody, anywhere, could argue about that, as proof of forces above beyond human control. This epic prophecy even moved a couple of Skeptic members to wonder if ' Craig ' might give consideration. No, Craig the president stuck to his rules about completing the proper application form to gain their approval.
So I would have to complete the application for the November 2017 epic ? And those other, successful, long-range predictions on horse trainers Stephen Autridge, Kenny Rae, Roger James and jumps jockeys Tommy Hazlett, Chris Allen and Raymond Connors ? As well as the ' Martin Crowe day ' and the 'Jarrod McCracken night ' or the ' 2 years of great destruction for Australia ' forecast before Covid struck in 2020 ? And the Wayne Bennett 1997 classic or the 2007 Rugby World Cup phenomenon ?
It was getting a bit embarrassing for Craig the president, so I got a warning:
NZ Skeptics Inc. is responding to a comment you made on their Page. View comment.
' Please stop spamming our posts with your irrelevant links. If you don't stop, we will have no option but to block you from our page. -- Craig '
' No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.-- Plato '
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PLUTO v ISRAEL ADESANYA
September 12
UFC 293: Israel Adesanya loses title in massive upset to American Sean Strickland in Sydney
said the headline. The Don Murray Astrologer Annual Prophecies of November 26, 2022 said:
' Adesanya, Israel:
Major off-year for the fighter with Pluto-Sun and Uranus-Mars mayhem. Feb, June, July, Oct, Dec his times to be resting. '
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THE FRANK ENDACOTT STORY
September 11
We're always laughing here at the modern-day media's role models and influencers.
They are New World Order-compatible and some are very disgusting. It's like you've gotta be a runaway father to qualify, preferably with serious alcohol or substance abuse issues, with mental illness issues another tick earner.
Every so often I read the autobiography of a great man named Frank Endacott ONZM, as a reminder of the wonderful fathers some generations grew up with.
' Frank Endacott was the longest serving, and most successful, Kiwis rugby league coach, and only the second New Zealander after Graham Lowe to have coached at international level as well as in the Australian and British professional competitions.'
Frank's first home was a tent behind his grandparents' house in Christchurch, for his Australian-born dad,mum and Frank. Later a state house. Frank married Joan, aged 20, a month before his 18th birthday, claiming " I had one shilling in the bank. " Joan's parents died within a couple of years of each other, so Frank and Joan raised Joan's 5 younger siblings, as well as their own 4 little boys.
Frank worked lots of overtime in the printing industry, and played rugby league as well. He coached at club level, then the Canterbury reps and the national team. Then coaching the Auckland Warriors reserve team and later the top side .
Plenty of reminders in the great read of the jealousy, dirty politics and general nastiness of media scabs, CEOs and board members. Dubbed ' Happy Frank ' by a sportswriter, F Endacott could piss people off because he was so popular and honest, and lived on his father's philosophy of greeting people warmly with a smile on the face.
With a great sense of humour. There was one of those legendary ' on tour ' pranks when a condom containing condensed milk was put in a certain player's bed. To management the disappointed victim went.Coach Endacott dipped his finger in the condom, tasted the contents then claimed it wasn't his !
There was an obnoxious league writer in the 1990s named Jim Marr, noted for his misquoting. Which he did with F Endacott, then a few weeks later ambled up to him at a match with a question. A heated argument followed, with Frank taking off his jacket and preparing to use Marr's bright red face for punching practice. 2 seconds later a TV camera arrived, Frank calmed down and later joked about them turning up too early and missing the scoop of the year.
I was party to some of Frank's minor violence in Townsville on a Saturday morning in July 1995. Game day for the Auckland Warriors, and I'm at the team's hotel to collect my stand tickets from head trainer Bob Lannigan, and settle a bet with the iconic supporter named Peter ' the Mad Butcher ' Leitch. Earlier in the week ' Mad ' had been stunned by my plans to hitchhike the 345 kms from Cairns to Townsville, and wagered a beer on me managing to get to Townsville alive.
Mad started squealing about 9 a.m being too early for a beer. Second-rower Steve Kearney put him in a headlock and Frank beat Mad with a rolled up newspaper until settlement of ' an orange juice and beef sandwich ? ' in lieu of the beer was agreed. Frank liked a flutter on the horses and told Mad how stupid the bet was--- if the hitchhiker did get murdered, as Mad had originally considered, how would he be able to buy Mad his beer ?
Frank's reserve team and the premier side both won their games that night against the North Queensland Cowboys and there was lots of happiness. More laughter in the early hours of Sunday, when Frank and Bob Lannigan strolled around a corner into the main street of Townsville, to see a bunch of local Maori and myself in our Warriors' jerseys performing the team haka.
12 months later Frank would knock me down a few pegs. After breakfast at the team hotel on match morning of the Gold Coast game. I'm discussing horse racing with several of the team including 32 year-old utility Phil Blake, playing for his 8th club at premier level. Then job changes, and I wondered about claiming a world record with 33 employers in 42 years of life ?
' You are nowhere near it , ' interjected Frank, who then told of his own father's 112 jobs in NZ and the outback of Australia.
F Endacott's sacking as Auckland Warriors' coach in 1999 was very controversial. He even had a lot of difficulty getting his last pay, with a final assurance from the idiotic C E O that the cheque would be delivered to his house at 7 p.m. It arrived, around 11 p.m, handed to Frank by a turban-wearing taxi driver. Just the cheque, no envelope !
The role model scene has changed dramatically since the television era. You laugh at the masses who have worshipped things like the departeds Paul Holmes and Charlotte Dawson, or Paul Henry, Duncan Garner, Martin Devlin,Mike King, Tony Veitch and Jayjay Feeney etc.
But there's no space in the media for the great man from Christchurch who's been married for just over 57 years. And has more than ' one shilling in the bank ' now.
BEING FRANK. The Frank Endacott story, with John Coffey.
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BIRTHDAYS
September 10
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Bob Vance 64 Dianne Trillo 58 Adam Trinder 44 Arron Mitchell 27
Monday: Gavan Duffy 63 Danny Bruhn 50 Tuesday: Peter Shepherd 54 Wednesday: Jason Biddulph 52 Rahul Beeharry 32 Thursday: Lance Douglas 65 Friday: John Revell 88 Saturday: Greg Sorich 70 David Tootell 62 Kelvin Tyler 58 Aaron Purcell 46 |
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POINTING THE BONE AT COWARDS
With the big " crash " forecast in the Annual Prophesies, www.donmurrayastrologer.com on November 26, 2013:
“ Wood, Susan:
Veteran broadcaster facing two years of difficult career change as Pluto and Uranus assail Mercury.”
Big “ crash ” it was, when Wood tumbled down the stairs during a wine drinking session 2 months later, receiving brain damage severe enough to have her off work for over a year. It could be argued that Wood’s brain was severely damaged when she was bagging a subject of which she had absolutely no knowledge many years earlier.
DIRTY OLD HOLMO
Broadcasting king Paul Holmes was another who despised Astrology. With Pluto assaulting his Moon in 2007, major emotional problems and home and family issues for him were widely predicted. How embarrassing for his adoptive daughter to hit the mid-year headlines---as NZ's most famous teenage P addict !
Poor Holmes arrived for his Newstalk ZB breakfast show on Monday, October 8, 2007 and grimaced at his list of interview subjects. Including that bloody Astrologer ! Because he had forecast the All Black's dramatic exit from the Rugby World Cup yesterday, nearly 4 years ago, on this very same station !
Holmes wanted to keep the interview short but I had a nice long speech prepared, harking back nearly 4 years, and Holmes was getting all agitated and I kept veering off on tangents and he was getting very angry. Even tried telling lies about Astrological events in his past !
ME ME ME MIKEY
Failed comedian-turned ' mental health advocate ' Mike King got unbelievably shitty when Astrological assistance was offered to depression sufferers. Obviously scared of what the 20-minutes enlightenment would reveal, but that's becoming normal for audience cravers
Unlike a 26 year-old Asian lady, who last weekend requested an enlightenment for her older sister in Canada. Speechless she was, for 8 or 9 minutes during the character analysis, before declaring ' That is so my sister ! ' She had just learned about the aspects for black sheep of the family, self-indulgence and hating restraint etc.
The Asian lady had genuine concern. Mikey didn't. He just wanted to be in the public eye, so the bone had to be pointed to teach him a lesson. He had shunned the one-on-one enlightenment, so there was some public advice in the November 2018 Annual Prophesies !
' King, Mike:
Major off-year for depression " expert " with Pluto-Sun and Saturn-Mercury catastrophes. Jan, Feb, June, July, Nov, Dec crucial, then close relationship issues from Uranus-Venus mayhem in 2020.'
That " major off-year " included a mental breakdown, King's gumboot mob running out of money and a motorbike crash when he suffered 9 broken ribs, broke his collarbone and punctured a lung !
SNOTTY-NOSED JANE
Way back in 2008 there was a phone call to Herald veteran Jane Phare. She'd started there in 1976, and did try to be a freelancer. That didn't last long and Phare was soon back with granny Herald, and with no interest in real Astrology or its inclusion in her publication.
She did offer her birth date on request, the ephemeris book was consulted and Phare was warned of a major life change ' in a couple of years time.' ( When revolutionary Pluto was over her Venus position in conservative Capricorn.)
In ' a couple of years time ' Phare had breast cancer and one of them was removed ! I contacted her, still at the Herald after nearly 45 years, in June 2022 for a review, and the response was amazing:
' As for predicting "life changing" events, breast cancer to me was an illness for which i was treated. It was not life changing.
Life changing for me was the birth of my son, finally, 17 years ago. You did not predict that.'
No I didn't. Because I didn't even know his mother's birthdate then. Soon afterwards snotty-nosed Jane was slotted in for a debut in the November 2023 Annuals:
' Phare, Jane:
Massive personal restructuring for the lifer journo from Pluto attacking her Mars. Feb, June and Jan 025 crucial.'
A few weeks ago this was news:
NZME newsroom overhaul: NZ Herald staff presented with new digital/print proposal, senior roles impacted. A week later NZME announced a 76% drop in profits.
Plenty of other media organisations are struggling as well, and there will be a lot more ' massive personal restructuring ' in the dirtiest industry of all. Media scabs hate to retire, because their byline-column-show is more important than anything else. Suddenly they are nobody.
Smart people can prepare for those major reversals. Forewarned is forearmed in our language.
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NZ RACING'S LATEST COVER UP
September 7
The ink was barely dry after yesterday's mockery of the once noble racing industry when news of another major scandal broke.
Yet another cover up involving a high-profile Matamata trainer, in respect of illegal raceday treatment. He instructed a staff member to inject a certain horse illegally, and it still raced.
The hearing was scheduled for August 31. Maybe it's gone to that special rubbish dump for Matamata matters. Like the matters of the the Moroney gang bashings and the Moroney meth scandals, or the 15 year-old girl epics from the Te Akau regime. Or the future hall of famer who donated $15K to a trust fund for a 14 year-old pack-rape victim to protect his son's arse. Same fellow viciously insulted a stipendiary steward outside the Rotorua judicial room about 40 years ago but that disappeared as well.
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NRLW v THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS
September 6
No servant anywhere could ever be described as ' great, ' least of all in the rapidly decomposing NZ racing industry.
Servants are housemaids, butlers, kitchen hands and exploited slaves. Like the stablehands of NZ who do their 70-80 weeks for much less then the minimum wage. And the breeders' labourers a.k.a journalists, like Dennis Ryan, the ' great servant ' praised recently by NZ Herald's Michael Guerin.
I met Ryan 50 years ago last month when I debuted in the press gallery at Ellerslie racecourse. He did spend quite a time training, and had a stint in Great Britain, but is back to the start, toiling in the editorship of a struggling weekly. Still writing nice stories about nice people and their nice horses, in an era where niceness isn't very saleable anymore.
A stack of horse racing books gifted to me recently includes the 1970 Hoof Beats magazine, and a table of the previous season's jumping riders. 47 of them had ridden 2 or more winners. All of them NZ-born, to make an amazing comparison with the national total of 12 jumps riders who competed at Hawera last Sunday.
FROZEN SLAVES
Only 4 NZ-borns among the 12 ! Foreign jumps riders include 49 and 43 year-olds from Ireland and a 45 year-old from Austria. Once upon a time Kiwi kids used to be ' weetbix kids, ' but nowadays there's more chance of them being ' ram raid kids ' than ' hurdle jockey kids ' No interest in working in the stables anymore. The feudal industry relies heavily on 3rd worlders from Asia, India and Mauritius, who are desperate for work and wages to send home to struggling families.
There was nothing in the recent array of stake money increases for the frozen slaves, who start collecting horse shit as early as 3 .15 a.m. 20 years ago start time was 3.30 a.m in one stable at Matamata, with workers risking forfeit of the weekly half-day off if they were late ! When the early receptionist at the Panmure swimming pool grumbles about rising at 4 a.m in winter, a few stablehand stories bring her back to reality.
With 33 years of Herald racing journalism in his CV, Guerin might even consider himself a ' great servant ' like Ryan. When ironically it is their dull and boring articles that are the problem. The racing media harp on about breeding and group races and black-type in Australia, and horses and sires and broodmares, with a distinct dearth of cult figures and controversies. So unattractive to normal humans.
MELE HUFANGA
A Reece Walsh is sorely needed, or a Latrell Mitchell or an Adin Fonua-Blake, for fans to argue about. League players, of course, and there's also a major boom in the NRLW.
' They're all bloody lesbians, ' scowled a rugby, racing and beer stalwart, who's joined many of his ilk in patching over to watch the women. No, only about 30%, according to contacts, but that isn't important. Their brilliant ball skills and kicking games are just as good as the men. The NRL dedicates Saturday and Sunday afternoons to the girls and you can bet on their games as well.
I had the good fortune to chat with a female road worker recently, who mentioned ' playing league ' and I recognised her as the nippy little number 9 who scored 2 tries in the recent Auckland womens' Grand Final demolition. And she's telling me all about her mates playing in the NRLW, and about 50% of the Canberra Raiders being NZ-borns and she's off to play in Sydney next year as well.
With Mele Hufanga rapidly becoming another cult figure. A massive Tongan from Otara, Mele plays centre for the Brisbane Broncos and is the competition's leading try-scorer. Always favourite for the first try in a game, as another sport plunders the NZ TAB, that until 1996 only operated on NZ horse racing.
While horse racing's betting turnovers continue to plummet, like around 15% over the last 12 months. Their problem, with our Champion Racing System performing better than ever. Even if Pluto attacking my own person this year and last has lowered the strike rate drastically, with only 2 wins from 9 investments since 2022 began !
Although it ain't too sad when those 2 winners pay $26.00 and $27.40, but I'll be aiming for 100% winners to starters when the Pluto mongrel stops harassing me next January. Heading to celebrate 40 years since the Astrological racing system was first shared with the public in November 1985.
Since 2019: 19 investments, 7 wins. Average win div $12.99 on a 36% winning strike rate ( Investment $1=$4.78 )
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IMPROVEMENT FOR AUCKLAND
September 4
Knowing when the bad shit's gonna end is the big Astrological advantage.
None of the shrinks or ' mental health advocates ' can tell a suicidal creature when the destructive Pluto phase will finish. Because Astrology is really the only option for the razor gazer.
Consider poor old Auckland. Very distressed and angry at present, many struggling after Covid and god's washing machine working overtime last summer. When investigation then detected the big problem-- Neptune in Pisces causing grief when opposing Auckland's natal Sun ! Officially between Virgo 24.38 and 25.38 degrees, courtesy of an 18 September, 1840 registration date.
It must be noted that Virgo's best friends are Capricorn and Taurus, with Pisces, Gemini and Sagittarius his enemies. Pluto's soon-to-be-finished Tour de Capricorn included his assisting Auckland's Virgo Sun with a powerful trine in 2021, especially the first 6 months when Auckland was basking in America's Cup glory. With the final leg in the 2021-22 summer, a time of elation after a 4-months lockdown ended in December.
POOR LUXON
Then Neptune in enemy Pisces started his harassment of Auckland's Sun, officially from May last year until January 2024. In the upcoming months there will be lots of liquidations and lay-offs, more rammies and robberies and unbelievable problems for the new P.M, Luxon. But improvement thereafter, especially with the Uranian awesomeness looming !
Since 2018, the erratic genius Uranus has been in Taurus, the domain of money and possessions, causing much disruption therein with all the financial problems and large debts from the Covid con. Although not everybody was conned, because Uranus can be helpful. He's currently at Taurus 23 degrees in retrograde motion before doing another U-turn next January and preparing to rescue Auckland's Virgo Sun and make it a lot more positive.
Uranus' Tour de Taurus at 24-25 degrees will bring a lot of improvements for Auckland's morale, especially around June and November next year, and March 2025.
As noted 2 years back, NZ has got all kinds of disruptions from Jupiter v Sun, Mars v Pluto and Saturn v Moon wrecking the next 6 months. Thereafter improvement. Rather coincidentally May 2024 has NZ benefitting from a rare, progressed Pluto trine to the Sun.
Hang in there, Aucklanders. There is light at the end of the dark tunnel.
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BIRTHDAYS
September 3
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Kevin Kalychurun 38
Monday: Graham Heaton 73 Stephen Jenkins 66 Glen Murray 57 Shane Penney 45
Tuesday: Rodney Dawkins 80
Wednesday: Mick Barlow 57 Dom Tourneur 49
Thursday: Bill McEwan and Robbie Byrnes 73 Nigel Lloyd 57 Sheryl Wigg 52 Vlad Duric 46 Rachel Tunnell 44
Friday: Frank Ritchie 79 Ian McKean 71 Shane Laming 60
Saturday: Marty Taylor 62 Kellie Kersley 56
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GAP YEARS AND MIKE MORONEY
September 1
The ' Gap Year ' has become very popular with ambitious Astrological believers.
That's when you take a break from serious life during unproductive, difficult Astrological phases. At age 55 I was fated to experience Pluto v Sun negativity, prompting a rest from horse racing investment. Pluto badness means you ain't gonna win any titles or break world records.
But fate also landed me a role in the American cable TV production Spartacus, as one of the many peasants dressed in rags. Awesome conditions and pay, like double the minimum wage. All filming done in Mt Wellington/Otahuhu and it was more a giant toga party than work and a very enjoyable way to enjoy a Gap Year.
Pluto badness also supervises a time of making bad decisions, as I did towards the end of the difficult phase. When females messed up a Sunday afternoon's plans, instead I went to watch my much younger mates from the Onehunga gym play indoor mixed netball.
In sneakers and shorts, which was a blessing to the team captain. Viva La Beaver were a man short and she ordered me to don the D for defence bib and make my indoor mixed netball debut. We won, I enjoyed the experience and fronted up next Sunday for another victory. I was apprehensive, though, being still under that Pluto negativity for a few more weeks.
So I announced my retirement the next day at the Onehunga gym, citing the desire to remain the world's only unbeaten mixed netball player. ' Nah, brother, ' countered a ginormous Samoan-Maori second rower.' One more game, you and me be the defence.'
Wonderful theatre, Otahuhu rugby league's meanest crash tackler, 30 years my junior and me, probably marking a pair of female goal shooters ? I weakened and the deal was sealed with a handshake. Another bad decision.
Unfortunately, the crash tackler got concussed during a rugby league Grand Final and didn't front up. I did, for another win and half an hour later was back at Onehunga for a spa, and bragging rights. Retiring unbeaten, Viva La Beaver top of the table......then suddenly I'm sore, and hobbling. One of the crash tackler's teammates reckoned it'd be ' sweet ' with a few days off training, but the physio had other ideas:
' A bruised achilles, do nothing for 3 months. Walk if you really have to.' The Don Murray All Stars Tag Football team was debuting soon, and playing in that got a big ' No ' as well.Of course it could have been a lot worse. Fellow gym junkies were telling me stories of achilles tears and wearing a moon boot for 3 months !
Sadly, I get no favours from the orbiters above, for all my dedication to and promotion of the wonderful science. But at least the knowing can be prepared for the reversals. And a lot worse things can happen under Pluto badness---bankruptcies, divorce, dishonourable activities, and sports coaches getting demoralised and dismissed etc.
Never a good time to take risks, as we consider an appearance in the Annual Prophecies this November of a very successful trans-Tasman horse trainer:
' Moroney, Michael:
Gap year recommended for the triangular-shaped horse trainer with Pluto-Moon emotional turbulence and the unhealthy, energy-sapping Neptune-Mars attack. Feb, April, July, Aug, Sept, Dec crucial, then Uranus-Mercury chaos in 2025.'
On November 6,2000, M D Moroney gained his biggest-ever success with Brew in the Melbourne Cup. But a storm was brewing in the very stressful training business. Truth of December 8, 2000 decreed that Melbourne-based Moroney would soon become inducted into the fictitious Matamata Bachelors' Association. So invented after some dramatic post-maritals in the town of horse racing addicts. M Moroney would be subject to some major Plutonian restructuring in 4th House home and family matters in 2001.
2 weeks later the news breaks that Moroney's missus ( based in Matamata ) has run off with another woman. And the ' restructuring in home and family matters ' included a sister taking her own life.
Michael Moroney has the height to be a good indoor netball player, but the stress of training has not been kind, and now he looks more like a steamroller than a Scottie Pippen. And definitely in need of a big rest. Under Pluto's badness, starting business ventures or marriage is not recommended. And, as has been done successfully on 2 occasions, get court cases adjourned until after the badness is gone !
We can still alert upcoming victims of Pluto attacks in 2023. Like horse racing notables Opie Bosson, Ryan Elliot, Leith Innes, Darren Weir, Steve Pateman, Kerrin McEvoy, Karyn Fenton-Ellis, Trent Busuttin, Donna Logan, Alan Sharrock, Jenny Vance. Also former racing notables like Craig Thornton, Jim Cassidy and Tom Hughes jun.
As we know so well, there are always gonna be profiters from Plutonian positivity. When you get the breaks, when you're in the right place at the right time. You make the right decisions,too.
A list of beneficiaries in the horse racing industry for 2024 is being prepared. Watch this space !
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LUXON AND NOELINE TAURUA !
August 30
One day they might wake up.
If you want results, don't employ a coach getting hammered by Pluto ! Silver Ferns coach Noeline Taurua apparently turned in a shocker at the recent World Cup which was not surprising. Her Mars position, at Aries 28 degrees-something, was always gonna get monstered from the year dot by Pluto in 2023 !
Down on August 26 some recent victims of Plutonian monsterosities were listed, along with a notable future victim named Luxon. Coach Christopher is very favoured to receive the poisoned chalice of prime ministership, as we consider the warnings here nearly 2 years ago, beneath
THE HORRORS OF LATE 2023
September 15, 2021
ending with: ' And there will be a lot more losers in NZ's horrific last half of 2023 '
Monday's big government announcement confirmed the crumbling nation's disastrous economic problems, following a record NZ loss over the weekend. When the All Blacks suffered their worst-ever defeat, to the Springboks at Twickenham by 35-7 ! With more extras to the nation's rapidly-diminishing morale:
Retail crime: Supermarket chain says assaults, robberies, burglaries more than doubled in a year
But all is not lost. As we know there will always be good Pluto and bad Pluto. And the revolution maker's movement into Aquarius next year will bring assistance to positions in the early degrees of Libra and Gemini, for example, so not everyone's gonna be ' Donalded.'
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THE EXTREMES OF ' MENTAL ILLNESS '
August 28
Listener: Are ordinary emotions being misdiagnosed as mental illness?
Yes. Modern ' mental illness ' was invented by an ex-rugby star desperately craving the limelight again. He was failing as a rugby coach, so ' mental illness ' was created.
The New World Order media system decided he was a necessary hero. A great distraction who could inspire a nation of cry babies. A failed ' comedian ' also latched on to this wonderful excuse for failures---his horrific relationships, with 6 children, and his own cocaine habit. Being a ' mental health advocate ' could get him back in the limelight !
THE ARIES QUADRELLA
Much of depression is ego-relevant. Recalling a hilarious time when Auckland's broadcasting industry housed 4 serious sufferers of ' depression.' The media was full of their wailings, but overlooked the fact that all had the sun sign of Aries, renowned for their big egos.
Aries likes to be in charge. Which isn't easy when they're wage-earners and subject to being booted around and dumped by the station manager. So they get all depressed and go on another booze or drugs bender:
Charlotte Dawson, Mike King and Jayjay Feeney. Also Murray Deaker who's own major problems had forced him to give up the booze.
Another classic for sadsacks is happy Venus and restrictive Saturn clashing in the natal chart. King, the cocaine user above and Sir John Kirwan, the desperate ex-rugby star, both possess this one. With the path to happiness continually paved with roadblocks, Venus-Saturn victims just keep on trying.
Yet another pearl in the Venus v Saturn desperation business is Karyn Fenton-Ellis MNZM. Her striving for appreciation has included stints in the corporate world, politics and a disastrous first marriage. Fenton-Ellis was also World President of Junior Chamber International (Jaycees) in 2000, having been elected unopposed in Cannes, France, and in 1989 had been the winner of the World Public Speaking Competition Final in Britain.
She once told me of her desires for a better world, and that ' we must be the change. ' She had a ' salute ' for me and ' my work ' ( Astrology ) and noted that ' too few people care these days.'
Fenton-Ellis eventually found her niche, as a syndicator of racehorses. An industry that's always been riddled with swindlers, fraudsters and ticket clippers. The last bastion of jealousy, with few peers in the western world for exploitation and slave labour. When she's ' being the change ' and making a better world,Fenton-Ellis would have to try and forget about all the dodgy bastards in that industry.
She may know of the $600K that 3 Waikato fellows, ' Dave, Mark and Stu ' tried to swindle from gullible Kiwi syndicate members in a horse sale to Singapore. They failed after the story was broken here. And I received an angry phone message from the ' Stu, ' who passed away a few months back.
Fenton-Ellis is proof of the extremes to which Venus-Saturn victims go in their vain pursuit of bliss. And Kirwan took the mockery to another level, when he decided to market his own brand and promote wine drinking ! One of his labels was ego-relevant as well, ' JK-11 ' to remind people of his glorious try-scoring days 30+ years ago when 'J K ' wore the number 11 jersey !
A ' mental health advocate ' encouraging people to get on the alcohol ? That derived from the Arabic ' Al Kuhl, ' translated as a ' body-eating spirit.' Researchers have deemed alcohol to be worse than any other drug. The scaly red faces, gloomy outlooks and pot bellies of career drunks are living proof.
Conclusion: Human emotions govern mental illness, more so when the mortal has certain difficult aspects in the natal chart. And sad sack Kirwan doesn't know the difference between depression and the dry horrors of a hangover.
Many other notables have been born with the Venus-Saturn happiness blocker, which is extremely difficult for close relationships. Horse racing has donated Shane Dye, Opie Bosson, Sam Spratt, Mike Dillon and Lisa Cropp etc. From the outside world there have been Gina Reinhart, Muhammed Ali, Ron Jeremy and Lisa Marie Presley etc.
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BIRTHDAYS
August 27
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Nick Downs 49 Jo Rathbone 43
Monday: Bill Cardwell 77 Kelvin Bourke 75 Lance O’Sullivan 60 Shannon Perry 50
Tuesday: Brendon Hutton 30
Wednesday: Michelle Strawbridge 52
Thursday: Kevin Moses 71 John Symons 67
Friday: Ian Hutchins 76 Roger Smith 70 Jeff Lloyd 62 Aaron Kuru 32
Saturday: Bill and Jim Pomare 75 Gai Waterhouse 71 Wayne Forbes 61 Erin Jillings 54
Party at Roger Smith's place ? There could be logistical and location problems, because he usually lives in his car.
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LUXON'S HOSPITAL PASS
August 26
It is gonna be a big fucker.
Threats of many job losses, which will all happen with the peak of NZ's recession 3-4 months away.
NZ's really heading for shit creek, with all those previously mentioned, difficult progression for November, December and February next year. And the polls indicate that ' Luxative ' will be replacing ' Napkins ' after the general election in October.
Poor NZ, considering next November's appearance:
' Luxon, Christopher:
Polly in for major stress and setbacks from Pluto attacking his Mars. Best to be bed-ridden in Jan, July, Nov, but 2025 has much improvement from Neptune and Uranus assisting that Mars position.'
Pluto attacking Mars supervises major career or personal problems and often depression or demotion. Just consider some of the case histories and high-profile victims of same aspect last year--- Prince Andrew, NRL superstars Brad Fittler and Reece Walsh, and jockey Leith Innes.
2023's victims include dumped NRL coach Anthony Griffin, struggling jockey Jonathan Riddell and angry NZ polly Megan Woods, who's heading for a big dump as well.
Pluto wreaks his havoc on other planets of course, with this year's victims of Plutonian destruction also including King Charles, Rafael Nadal, Steve Pateman, Brendan McCullum and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck.
Giving Luxon the keys to NZ would be like firing a hospital pass, with David Fifita and Tevita Pangai jun lining him up for a gang tackle.
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RACING FOR RED INK
August 24
There was a bit of optimism in some quarters of NZ thoroughbred racing.
The recently-announced stake hikes for the new season had professional bum wipers like thick prick Mick ( NZ Herald's Guerin ) predicting a renaissance in the industry, which was dogged by horrific drops in betting turnover last season.
Of course the stake increases are from the new TAB owner's bribes and further borrowing from the reserve fund. A ' renaissance ' means that a new kind of human is suddenly gonna find NZ horse racing so cool to watch and lose money on ? Even if last season finished around 10% down on betting turnovers from the previous ?
NZTR used to publish their weekly betting statistics, but that ceased a long time ago. It was starting to become very embarrassing and there was so much red ink to source. I phoned a high-ranking NZTR fellow last week about this, and he muttered and mumbled about ' only stakeholders receiving the information.' So if he wouldn't tell me, I'd just get one of my spies to sort it out !
NZTR fellow didn't sound very happy at all and later I wondered if he was reading the betting stats for the first week of this month and having a ' puma pants ' experience when I phoned. Word from a well-placed spy indicates that everyone in the hierarchy is shitting themselves, especially after 3 of the 4 gallops meetings registered horrific drops in turnover !
Cambridge ( Wed ) -- 32%
Ruakaka ( Sat ) --17%
Hawera ( Sun ) -- 16 %
Only the main Riccarton meeting on Saturday had an increase---a paltry 2.23 %
Don't look like there will ever be stake increases again during Guerin's ' renaissance.' Oh, and there's a major recession looming as well. About which there's been plenty of warning. Initially beneath
THE HORRORS OF LATE 2023 on September 15, 2021.
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THERE WILL ALWAYS BE LIARS AND LOWLIFES
August 23
When you've done several thousand Astrological enlightenments, patterns emerge.
The amazing science is very popular with humanitarians and the family-orientated. Mothers and fathers getting their children analysed and relatives in all parts of the world. And incredible interest from very successful sports players and coaches, with 7 or 8 national champions having received enlightenment.
Fit bodies create fit minds. They read and think, and become very fascinated by that which explains the unexplainable. A hell of a lot of ex-jockeys have also latched on to the Astrological amazement, and with plenty of wonderful feedback. Which is normal for people who've travelled and experienced life.
Numerous lawyers and entrepreneurs have also requested enlightenments. Very important to know when cases should be adjourned and when rivals are under Pluto or Uranian malevolence. And when you can do dangerous things and not get busted.
While in all those years, only 2 journalists, both long-standing acquaintances from horse racing, have bothered. Poor NZ. So deeply troubled, and running away from the truth. As well as deliberately avoiding the only science that gets it right, as I hark back nearly 40 years to
THE ORIGINAL MEDIA COWARD
'Twas veteran journo Colin Moore, in a full broadsheet page, bleating about his own depression. I'd remembered Colin from my mid-1970s days at NZ Herald. Now he was a lifer, with more than 20 years in the house of gloom.
I phoned Colin, and told him of my Astrological discoveries in England and various formulae being produced. He could locate a birth time from his mother, and his life would be explained ?
' Thanks, ' concluded Colin. ' But I'd rather not.'
I was shocked, but not really surprised, having experienced Herald rigity. Then a real surprise in October 1993, when another Herald veteran Bernadette Rae came for a story on horse racing tipsters, with November's Melbourne Cup in mind.
A giggly, shallow tale involving colours and lucky numbers ? No way, and she was horrified when I told her about the ancient Astrological system, but she did volunteer a birth date upon request. I selected a year of serious Pluto-Venus catastrophe, often incorporating romantic problems or marriage break up, or major, difficult lifestyle changes ?
TELLING LIES
' No, no, nothing like that then, ' was the quick reply, and the gut feeling was she was telling lies. I assured her she'd remember it later, and explained the amazing Astrological racing system. Like the $55 winner forecast for the legendary J Bart Cummings on Melbourne Cup day of 1986. I produced a scrapbook with amazing predictions made in the racing publication Friday Flash.
Ms Rae was not impressed--the truth was getting in the way of a ' good story '--- then we talked about our respective Herald lives, with her ' going back there in X when my marriage broke up.' That was it ! The year of the Pluto v Venus catastrophe. I returned to the ephemiris, with ' Here's your birthdate, and note Venus there at ....'
The sad old bitch packed another sad. And there was nothing flattering about her pathetic story, very negative and she chose to focus on a $3 winner. And I had ' boasted gleefully ' about the world's most expensive magazine. The monthly tips, on a single sheet of paper retailing for $20 !
Of course journos never get much chance to ' boast gleefully ' about anything. As professional bum wipers and automatic tax payers there's little more than the weekly wage to get excited about. They don't have national icons seeking Astrological advice about their futures, they just dream of a rare front-page lead, like veteran David Fisher produced last weekend:
Clairvoyant who 'conned' $19m Lotto winner: Claims of debts emerge
Less people would have been conned if silly old Rae and Moore had done a bit more research nearly 30 years ago ! Many would have been saved from major losses if there'd been benchmarks for competent prediction makers.
Of course not all humans would benefit from the great science. Part of the magnificence has formulae for cowards, cry babies and truth stretchers, and the extremely narrow-minded lifers like Rae, Fisher, Moore and previous offenders Lewis, Phare and co.
There will always be lowlifes, losers and liars. And probably looters during NZ's horrific next 6 months. And always laughter, it's the best form of medicine.
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THE FATHERLESS TRACKSIDE KID
August 21
Some 16 years ago one of Trackside Channel's toilers was filthy.
She was pregnant, and her jockey husband had run off with another woman. Jockey was in deep disgrace but his parents still wanted to play their part. The resultant product spent time with his grandparents, although Mrs H began to have her doubts.
2 years after the birth, DNA testing proved that Mrs H's son was not the unplanned child's father ! A story on this website got instant reaction from the Trackside bastard's mother. She wouldn't tell me who the father was, and claimed that I didn't know the ' full story .'
In thoroughbred breeding parlance, the kid would be described as ' by a sire of unknown pedigree.' Then the Trackside lifer also claimed that ' it's not Mick's either ! '
Mick ? Who's Mick ?
' You fucking well know ! ' continued the angry mother. I continued to feign ignorance, although harness racing sources had claimed that a ' Mick ' had paid the mother $10K to keep her trap shut. The story was not removed and 10 minutes later there was a call from a veteran stalwart of the racing industry.
Also demanding removal of the story, but he was told to go and get fucked as well. Then he tried to play the kiddy card: ' There's a 3 year-old boy involved ! ' So I suggested that the boy stop reading my website.
So many unwanted and neglected kids come out of the ugly, deteriorating palagi culture. They find gang membership a lot more attractive.
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BIRTHDAYS
August 20
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Paul Harris 60 Mark Gaskell 51 Timmy Murphy 49 Jim O’Styke 48
Monday: Bernard Dyke 64 Scott Lucock 62 Glenn Boss 54 Linda Meech 43
Tuesday: Ron Gurney 70 Tracey Bartley 57 Matt Cameron 37
Wednesday: William Haggas 63 Mark Riley 61 Brent Mangos 60 Lucy De Lautour 48
Thursday: Steven Dennett 65
Friday: Lindsey Smith 64 Richard Cully 42 Craig Franklin 41 Daniel Small 34 Lee Magorrian 29
Saturday: Barry Long 75 Paul Sellwood 43
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RAM RAIDERS AND RECORD BREAKERS
August 18
112 hours after the Grand Final, the Auckland Rugby League website had a simple message: ' Results not submitted '
As per the Premier Reserves Grand Final last Saturday. It had taken nearly 48 hours for the final score to make the site, with ' Results not submitted ' referring to the ' timeline ' and who scored all the tries. By Thursday morning we were still no wiser, but very aware of the problems.
The ARL have been serial offenders in recent years, and similar inefficiencies have been noted in many official places and government departments. They send 2 letters to a wrong address so you ask them if they've ever heard of email. The many-headed monster of the pit is losing the plot, and there's a great sense of hopelessness in NZ.
' The annual survey by the Retirement Commission found the number of people in financial difficulty increased by 17% since their first survey in 2021.
A total of 55% reported being in a financially difficult position.
Of those surveyed, 51% reported they were 'starting to sink' or 'treading water', while a further 3.5% reported they were 'sinking badly'. '
I can't remember the nation being so angry. Although I was working in the Scottish Highlands in 1981, when the Springbok tour and the protests had NZ on the brink of civil war. That anger was from passionate, humanitarians fighting for the freedom of Black people in South Africa.
The protesters were successful, ultimately bringing the filthy racists to their knees. But NZ's current anger is all about hopelessness and the financial strains above. There is no light in the dark tunnel for many, so it's reasonably hilarious when you consider some of NZ's growth industries. Like the ram raid boom.
Kid crime is skyrocketing and the ambition of many youths is to earn a gang patch. It isn't all bad though. The ram raid boom means the cops are too busy to follow up speeding tickets and check vehicle registrations. And bust tinny houses.
How about this milestone ?
' Police have seized three-quarters of a tonne of methamphetamine in a raid on a South Auckland warehouse, making it the biggest meth bust in New Zealand history.
Researchers and drug harm reduction groups say New Zealand is “at the mercy” of a growth in global meth production, threatening an “exponential increase” of harm to our communities.'
Only one verdict for the crumbling nation that's a heavy promoter of alcohol, and regards smoking Murrayjuana as criminal. And cringes away from the truths of Astrology: You are getting exactly what you deserve.
A hideous, palagi trash culture has been created. There's a knighted, ' mental health advocate ' named Kirwan who actually manufactures wine and promotes alcohol consumption !
Ideally the ram raiders, kid crims and meth importers will continue unabated. That may be necessary to convince the K.I.W.I stupids to change a few of their methods.
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.' THEY CAN BULLY AND CONTROL HUMANS, BUT NOT THE PLANETS.'
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WILDFIRES AND DUMMIES
August 16
Anybody with doubts about Astrology can only be a sad ' pakuranga hunt ' after the pearls of phenomenal prediction reviewed down on August 4.
Horse racing certainties as far as 5 years, 4 months and 3 days in advance ? The ' Martin Crowe day ' 10 months beforehand ?
Add the 18 years of Newstalk ZB greatness and the ravings of Murray Deaker ONZM. Also the amazing predictions on Trackside Channel, inTruth and Friday Flash, the performances on Radio Pacific, Radio Live, Humm FM etc and various television channels. It's hard to think that our lives are not planned.
There is automatic disagreement from the scowling scabs in the NZ Skeptics mob, remembering that part of Astrology's programme includes the depression aspects we analyse so often. There will always be loaded 12th Houses, Mars afflictions and Scorpio Moons, the aspects which enhance mental illness and supervise senseless suggestions from sick Skeptics. Like:
Don Murray Challenge to Don: Next predicted 100:1 - re-mortgage your house and put down $100,000.'
A common cop out from nasty people. But there is nothing left to prove with Astrology, and the great science does have provision for fearful and negative humans.But you do wonder if the dummies will ever latch on to our wonderful ' Holiday Astrology. ' When favourable planets have you in the right place at the right time, instead of
' Exploding cars, bodies in the harbour: How a holiday paradise became a nightmare
Families recount what happened when wildfires turned their vacations into a nightmare.'
Add the ' sell-your-property ' syndrome which backs the theories about planned lives. The Astrological annals have wonderful tales of fortunate clients who've sold a doomed property before the deluge and devastation.
Other annals have sob stories of those who've lost heavily with their investments. And were never ever going to be fortunate enough to do otherwise.
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WHAT BOILS A HERALD KETTLE ?
August 14
There was recent mockery of the NZ Herald lifers. Plenty of old journos there who watch the world go by, some even wondering what it would be like to do something original.
Like Paul Lewis, who'd been at the Herald a couple of years when I arrived in 1973. Lewis did have 5 years working in PR for a firm in Singapore, then returned in 2004 to be sports editor of the recently formed Herald on Sunday. I wondered then if he would help with the Astrological renaissance.
My last 14 years had included columns in weeklies Truth and Friday Flash and the annual Newstalk ZB gig every January since 1994. Now I was columnless, and didn't like my chances of convincing a stodgy old Herald lifer. But nothing ventured, nothing gained, so I phoned Lewis.
No interest whatsoever and my suggestion was scoffed off with ' It doesn't boil my kettle. '
10 years later Lewis was demoted to be a backbencher in digital productions. He's still going at age 70, unable to retire and live off the pension and great achievements after a divorce brought another mortgage. He's remembered with a ' Lewis ' column grizzling about sport every Sunday.
So what does boil the Lewis kettle ?
He looks at the Herald headlines each morning and considers the progress he's made in the last 50-something years ?
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BIRTHDAYS
August 13
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Paul Hamblin 57 Brad Pengelly and Patrick Ferris 46
Monday: Garry Phillips 72 Robert Caddigan 60 Ryan Wiggins 41
Tuesday: Danny Crozier and Bernard Myers 60 Darryl Bradley 57 Wez Hunter 43 Princess Shamsa 42
Wednesday: Bill Masters 83 Stephen Moffatt 72 Gary Grylls 61 Brad Rawiller 45
Thursday: Eric Musgrove 72 Gary Jenkins 61
Friday: Des Lake 81 John McLeod 74 Craig Thornton 57 Jamie Gillies 47 Chris Allen 45 Chris Symons 41 Jamie Richards 34
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TRACKSIDE'S WANNABE DRUG RAPIST
August 11
Back around July 2020, we reported on a pedo harness racing trainer/driver who was subsequently dubbed the ' Chutney Man.'
He'd been sexually abusing a junior driver-employee. The Racing Integrity Unit didn't want to know about the kid's complaints so family connections got gang members involved.
Chutney Man got a visit and had to call the cops for safety purposes. That's when the cops heard of the employee's complaint and investigations began.
2 more abused former employees came forward and suddenly Chutney Man's in a pickle and facing serious charges. The court case got deferred a couple of times, in the Covid era and with fresh complainants emerging. Latest has the hearing set for next February.
THE DRINK SPIKER
In the meantime, information has been gained about a Trackside Channel employee's historic offending. Some 10 years back he spiked a female stablehand's drink in a Ruakaka motel with the worst of intentions.
Ms felt wowsy and drowsy and wobbled out on the balcony and started undressing. WTF ? wondered a pair of bypassers. The girl was saved, but the matter went no further. As is so often the case in horse racing, more so when famous people are involved.
The Spiker has some lethal aspects in his natal chart, especially for one with a wife and 2 kids. Venus in Aries, whose owners need adventures and fresh challenges and are big risks for ' until death do us part.' Notable racing personnel with same include Natalie Rasmussen, Katrina Purdon, Danielle Johnson, Trudy Thornton, Shaune Ritchie, Michael Walker, Sir Mark Todd and disgraced ex-journo Mike Dillon.
Like a catholic family of 5 children that I grew up with. All got married, but only 2 lasted--the 2 without Venus in Aries !
Outside world possessors of Venus in Aries who've suffered great disgrace include Rolf Harris, Phillip Schofield, Kamahl Santamaria, Mitchell Pearce, Malcolm Rewa, Ron Jeremy and Peter Plumley-Walker.
The Spiker keeps on trying. An Otahuhu gentleman tells of his attempts to chat up his niece who works in a day care.
LIAR OF THE AGES
We can confirm that the wannabe Trackside rapist is not the deadly boring Aidan Rodley, who inadvertently started eating his own faeces last weekend.
Last month we laughed about Rodley's November 1982 birthdate on Facebook. Elsewhere he claims to have completed a journalism course in 1997 !
Winter racing is quite boring, more so when one of the few watchable races includes Rodley geysering away. Last Saturday he was interviewing leading jockey Lisa Allpress and noted the passing of time since they were at Stratford High School together.
Lisa Allpress was born in May 1975. And I didn't get that from Facebook, her mother told me, around 30 years ago. Then rang me back 10 minutes later because they'd located Lisa's birth certificate and the time of arrival was slightly different to the one she had just given me.
A RETARD ?
Genius Rodley, a qualified journalist at age 15, must have leapfrogged his way through school ?
Lisa, 7.5 years his senior, must have been a retard, who sucked her thumb in class and gazed out the window instead of learning to read ? So she kept on getting held back a year, and was stagnant in high school ? When the hot Rod whizzed past and said ' See ya later, I'm going to be a journalist.'
But it's more likely that Rodley is very protective of his real age. A common trait with space wasters toiling in the ugly worlds of media and broadcasting. Lifers therein get kicked around like pieces of faeces and wonder what they've really achieved.
Coming soon: The funniest Trackside tale of all-- the boy with the wrong father for 2 years !
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THE PRE-CHRISTMAS CRASH
August 9
20 years ago NZ was in the middle of a major spiritual renaissance.
When Newstalk ZB hosted the annual State of the Astrological Nation address for an hour every January from 1994 for 18 years. With plenty of exposure for the greatest science in other media outlets until the New World Order's master plan to keep the great unwashed dumb and depressed kicked in.
Then, early in August 2018, I was contacted by Radio Live host Richard Green. He had remembered the shows on Newstalk ZB with Murray Deaker ONZM and wondered if I could spare half an hour to enlighten his listeners one Friday evening.
That was no problem. Talkback lines were opened and the response was amazing, as people phoned in with their birth information and got analysed. Green wondered if I could do another half hour. No problem again, with another half hour after that. Next morning there was an email:
On 10 August 2018 at 13:05, Richard Green <richardgreen1012@gmail.com> wrote:
' Hi Don,
Thanks so much for last night and I really appreciated you staying on extra long due to the popularity!
I hope you enjoyed it as well which is the main thing :-)
A couple of things perhaps and one of them you suggested… Take some dates before the commercial break so that it gives you a chance to look them up during that time and also get some of the audience asking more questions but I can set that up by explaining it in advance.
Another option in regards to dates is get the producer to take some dates in advance which is what she started to do last night.
How did you think it went from your end?
Thanks, Richard '
I replied in the positive but had no expectations of the amazing show being repeated. There should always be a demand for this kind of wisdom, but it doesn't fit with the New World Order master plan.
Sad that more people couldn't have been prepared for the Covid era to avoid their travel and business losses. And wouldn't many of the big losers from last summer have loved to have had the Astrological advice of that Queenslander, who sold his ranch 6 weeks before flooding turned it into a lake !
It's not as if the retards and victims haven't had enough warning. Regular helpings of Astrological magnificence have been happening since the first horse racing certainty in Friday Flash 33 years ago last month ! And the 18 years of Newstalk ZB that began on January 1,1994 !
NZ has become a very angry nation, and one deserving of derision. Why does it tolerate a media system that despises Astrological truth,but promotes fear and loathing with his kind of encouragement ?
Watch: Ram raiders make 'massive mess' of shop in 90 seconds : Watch: ‘I felt really unsafe’ - Uber driver snoops around woman’s house moments after dropping her home: Watch: 30 seconds of terror, robbers' million-dollar rampage on Auckland jeweller: Watch: Supermarket worker takes on iron bar-wielding man as retail crime rates soar: Watch: Footage of car fire on SH29 near Tauranga
More importantly, the Astrological machine is running rampant. There were those stunning prophecies on Australia and NZ in the Covid eon, China's economic disasters in June, and NZ's current, horrific financial situation. With the latter still to peak around October, and the destructive overhead meeting of energetic Mars and Pluto supervising the major late 2023 chaos.
Mars v Pluto often concerns anger management and serious psychological issues. Never a very productive phase so there shall be a flood of liquidations and lay-offs before christmas.
The rifles, robberies and rammies will continue unabated. With, ' oh, fuck yes, ' a well-connected underworld figure assured me that the record below would get broken:
' Open gang warfare and brazen shootings in Auckland saw recorded gun crimes spike during a single month in the Super City with an average of more than three per day.There were 109 gun crimes in May, figures supplied by police under the Official Information Act show. '
Post-christmas will also be tough for NZ, with a cry-baby nation from Saturn-Moon matters until April.
Much more fun being a laughter baby, and tormenting all those scowling sceptics. That human going through life as a trotting horse wearing blinkers will also have a Klu Klux Klan hood minus the peep holes with its tail tied to a steamroller.
5 years later, and Richard Green still hasn't replied.
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NZ HERALD---50 YEARS AGO
August 7
'Twas 50 years ago this week that I started work at NZ Herald. I lasted less than 4 years, but have fine memories of life in the 7-person horse racing department of conservative old ' granny Herald.'
So strict that NZ Herald didn't use christian names in stories, unless a knight of the realm Sir ? was involved. And it was weird writing about the famous Skelton brothers-- not jockeys Bill, Bob, Frank, Errol and Max---- but W.D, R.J, F.H, E.B and M.J Skelton in Herald speak.
Bylines had an odd rule. If you were commonly known by your christian name i.e ' by Allan Brown ' was accepted. The great rugby writer Terry Mclean had been christened Terrence and was known world-wide as Terry but he had to have ' by T.P McLean ' atop his Herald stories. Donald had to have ' by D C Murray ' there.
You had to be considered mature enough to have the honour of the byline. Come August 1975, I'd been there 2 years and very frustrated by the racing editor's reluctance. So I had a chat with a deputy-editor, explaining that ' By Don Murray ' appeared in other racing publications etc and Mr Chappell wondered what the racing editor, Allan Brown, thought of this. No problems there, I explained, since Mr Brown used to ' rat ' for other publications like Truth and Friday Flash.
I departed Mr Chappell's office with confidence. Next day a racing staff member told me that Brown told him I was to be granted the byline. Later Brown's deputy was filthy on me for dobbing Brown in about his sideline activities. Brown was a nasty, institutionalised, ' pakuranga hunt ' who would spend 43 years with his only employer.
Mission accomplished, then D C Murray was considered mature enough to join Allan Brown and J.A Knight in the tipping panel after 3.5 years. I was planning to sit it out and wait for Brown or Knight to die or retire and become the racing editor. The annual Melbourne Cup trip every year would be my Everest.
The dream of many Heraldians was to remain there 40 years, to collect a gold watch and some large superannuation $$$. With a ' my column ' always possible in the interim, where a dutiful Heraldian could write weekly about his favourite subject. Deputy-editor Jock Graham had a weekly ' Cellar Book ' and he wrote about wine. Illustrations editor D.W Lochore had a weekly column about bridge, and chief reporter John Ross penned ' Life and Faith ' about matters of christianity.
But 3 months after aspiring to the tipping panel I was dismissed, for pissing the veteran trotting writer off. 14 years later Brown retired. Knight went up, then was replaced 4 years later. If I'd behaved myself for 18 years I could have become the racing editor !
Now it's the NZ Horrid, and every morning I laugh at the degeneration of NZ journalism with their filthy headlines. And occasionally wonder how the remaining lifers from the 1970s feel about their product. Phare and Lewis, who tried briefly to work in the real world but returned to granny Herald's bosom and have around 90 years of Heralding between them.
And you wonder about all the staunch pillars of perfect journalism upstairs in the Press Bar. McLean, Brown, Chappell, Graham and co sobbing into their gins, trying to remember the glory days.
THE EVEREST
Early in 1977 my Everest was going to be the weekly trip to the Melbourne Cup every November as NZ Herald racing editor. I've only attended one Melbourne Cup day at Flemington,as a non-journalist in November of 1977, and had such an amazing day that might never be repeated.
But 40 years later there was the best Everest imaginable. Like the Wayne Hillis-Watch This Space epic down on August 4. The Guinness Book has no section for ' long-range prophecy ' and wanted ten thousand UK pounds to consider my application.
I took this as confirmation that I set a World Record that is very unlikely to ever be beaten. And blessed granny Herald yet again for deciding that I didn't have the makings of a lifer......
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BIRTHDAYS
August 6
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Robbie Griffiths 54
Monday: Greg Billings 70 Brendan Hain 52 Julia Ritchie 48
Tuesday: Brian Wadham 72 Richard Collett 61 KimTaylor 57 James Sievwright 29
Wednesday: Paul Hillis 63 Sir John Key 62 Stephanie Clark 52 Patrick Ryan 48
Thursday: Peter Van Wanrooy 60 Willie Harnett 55 Louise McGregor 53
Friday: Kenny Smith 82 Paul Goss 61 Tony Mokbel 58
Saturday: Lee Freedman 67 John Yetton 65 Caspar Fownes 56
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SIX OF THE UNBEATABLES
August 4
Poor old Keen Interest Without Intelligence is struggling, as morale in NZ nears rock bottom. Plodding along, like the trotting horse wearing blinkers, but unable to stop and deal with serious questions:
Can you understand English ?
Have you heard of Hippocrates ?
Have you heard of the ' Three Wise Men.' ?
If you haven't got ' Yes ' x 3, go no further. Same if you are a christian, a television-loving drunk, a news media scab, a ' mental health ' advocate, or just a general cynic, do not proceed.
Because you will be required to think ! And even consider out-of-the-square possibilities !
You would have to ask yourself: How could these incredible prophecies be made ?
HORSE RACING
www.donmurrayastrologer.com, July 4, 2012:
' WAYNE HILLIS FOR MELBOURNE CUP DAY, 2017 '
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' And the final leg in November. Especially 7, the first Tuesday, Melbourne Cup day to racegoers. Don’t matter whether W P Hillis is at Flemington, Hanging Rock or back home somewhere, he will be buzzing.
Hopefully he lines up, to get us a nice win on November 7, 2017. And set a new world record for long-range racetipping. '
On November 7, 2017, trainer W P Hillis had one runner---Watch This Space, who won the open 1600 metres handicap at Ellerslie and paid $9.80 for the win !
FRIDAY FLASH, October 30, 1992:
' I'll be surprised if punters don't make a fortune backing runners from Stephen Autridge's stable on February 6, July 23 and November 28 next year.'
Trainer S R Autridge did not have runners on the first two dates but his only starter on November 28,1993, Matsqui, won and returned a $22.65 win dividend !
RUGBY
Newstalk ZB, November 22, 2003, around 4.45 pm:
Warning host Murray Deaker ONZM and a nation of listeners that probable next All Blacks coach Graham Henry was a big risk for the next Rugby World Cup year ( 2007 ) because of disastrous late year Pluto-Moon and Uranus-Sun reversals.
In October 2007, G Henry's All Blacks were red-hot favourites and had their worst-ever RWC, getting dumped in a quarter-final by France !
CRICKET
TRUTH, April 29, 1994: In predicting a return to form for controversial cricketer Martin Crowe:
' In fact if Crowe were a jockey I'd be backing his mounts on Tuesday, February 14,1995.
That's the sort of day that the administration jokers should mark down for a one-day international against the Aussies.'
On February 14, 1995, Crowe played in a Shell Trophy match for Wellington and made 193 not out !
RUGBY LEAGUE
FRIDAY FLASH, July 18,1991:
' I'm not optimistic about the Kiwis winning the next league test against Australia, but I hope like Donald I'm wrong.Next Wednesday's a special for Mal Meninga and a bummer for Jarrod McCracken.
' I'll be relaying this prognosis to coach Bob Bailey so don't be surprised if the wonder centre is subbed early in the game.'
After 26 minutes Jarrod McCracken was sent from the field after making an innocent attempt to stop a brawl !
TRUTH, November 15,1996:
' Maybe the bet of the century tag could be placed on whoever is playing the Brisbane Broncos on May 30 or 31 next year.Those days have coach Wayne Bennett suffering the painful Saturn-Neptune square that harassed Auckland coach Graham Henry when his team got knocked off by Counties.'
On May 31, 1997 the lowly Hunter Mariners upset the Broncos 24-6, with a head-to-head bet returning $4.20 on the New Zealand TAB !
Any thoughts ?
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70--6 GRAND FINAL WIN
August 2
It isn't very often you get this kind of score in any sporting Grand Final.
I harked back to a fascinating 40--50 minutes with a young Samoan girl at the Otahuhu spa early this year. Very confident, ambitious and already successful as a rugby league hooker, Ms Mary-Jane Taito knew everything about rugby league in the region.
Except for the tale about the North Queensland Cowboys scout purchasing 8 pizzas in Townsville before 14 year-old future superstar Jason Taumalolo’s father signed the contract. I noted too, that Tongan Jason seems to have a hell of a lot of cousins in Otahuhu, and ' M J ' had the answer, ‘ Because his parents come from different Islands.’
Come July 29, the ARL livestream had the youth Grand Finals. The under-16 girls had the Otahuhu Blue Angels against the Mangere East Elite Queenz, which included Ms M J Taito. Who earned great praise from the commentary team for her fitness and long, accurate passes from dummy half. And her own 3 tries, in another possible World Record, a 70--6 Grand Final victory.
What a team. Including a kicker who could nail conversions from the sideline. No doubt the Sydney talent sharks will be circling, and ' M J ' had told me that many male and female contemporaries from her turf have been poached by Australian clubs. Like Jason Taumalolo was in 2007.
Womens' rugby league is growing rapidly, suddenly with 10 teams in the Australian NRLW, playing 9 rounds before a finals series. Last year there was a World Cup and another for womens' rugby, with the FIFA females and netballers making headlines with their own shows at the moment.
It's all part of the Astrological plan, of course, about the extreme weakening of the male forecast here early in 2008. During Pluto's Tour de conservative Capricorn ( 2008-2024 ) many traditions have died, especially with trustworthy leaders, the media and real estate, and there's the widening divide between father and son. Add the LGBT mob, transgenders, a lot more gays in parliament and unbelievable numbers of whimps and wusses getting bossed around by control-freak females.
Now women are moving in on the great game of rugby league, that once upon a time was the domain of wharfies, dustmen and freezing workers.
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2023 RWC: CHANGE OF PLANS
July 31
There is no place for sentiment where Astrological magnificence is concerned.
Like feeling sorry for a deeply-troubled nation, and cutting a few corners to predict on July 19 that the All Blacks would win the 2023 RWC.
The plans have changed after I located a time of birth for the French coach, Fabien Galthie. Too many positives in his near future, and no arrival times for any of the All Blacks' main men.
As once noted, an All Blacks win doesn't fit the extremely depressed nation of pre-Christmas 2023. So there is no prediction for the October Rugby World Cup, and the July 19 article has been removed.
The time of birth is vital for serious prophecies. Coaching legend Robbie Deans was fascinated by the amazing science, like many great coaches and players, and even tried the Cheviot Hospital for his time of arrival in late 2007.
No luck, and I made my only All Blacks error this century when selecting R Deans’ Australia for the 2011 RWC. This must never happen again.
While there are few better RWC memories than that amazing day in October 2007, when France tipped the All Blacks out in a quarter-final.
There was that gloomy black cloud that descended upon the nation,and stayed for 2 months. And the observations of an Iraqi lass in the nearby petrol station later that afternoon !
' You know, zee customer is so angry today. I zink is something to do with rugby.'
Footnote: Australia is a million to one with Donbet, and drifting for the RWC after this epic in the November 2021 Annual Prophecies:
' Jones, Eddie:
Rugby coach hampered by Neptune-Jupiter complications in April, Aug and Feb 023. With Neptune-Node complications in Oct 023 as well. '
At that time E Jones was coaching England. Then he was relieved of his position and silly Australia picked up the pieces. More fragments than ever after the All Blacks crushed them 38-7 on Saturday night.
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BIRTHDAYS
July 30
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Brian Galvin 77 Jade Zuppicich 41 Luke Tarrant 29
Monday: Les Bridge 85 Maree Davey 60 Gavin Eades 57 Peter Moody 54
Tuesday: Cliff Clare 93 Brian Smith 82 Tim Clark 37
Wednesday: Gail Temperton 75 Matthew Cahill 56
Friday: Chris Wood 62 Richard Cole 56 Simon Price 53 Wiremu Pinn 25
Saturday: John Sadler 69 Debbie Rogerson 58
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' PAKURANGAS ' WHO'VE ' DONALDED ' RACING
July 29
There are plenty of ' pakurangas ' messing up the world. The sad ones, the sick ones and the ' pakurangas ' who can't stop telling lies.
The Pakuranga Hunt is an icon of old South Auckland, and also the only NZ racing club in the dictionary of Cockney Rhyme. Just like ' Donald Duck.'
' Pakuranga Hunt was established in 1872 and is still active today. The first formal meet was in 1874. Sir George Grey imported some hounds which he sold to William McLaughlin of Puhi Nui farm, Papatoetoe.'
Their celebrations included an annual raceday at Ellerslie in late August, loaded with jumping races including the Pakuranga Hunt Cup. No longer at Ellerslie after the stupid Auckland Racing Club pakurangas stopped steeplechase racing there in 2021. Then moved to theTe Aroha course, which is now having refuckturing problems.
There have been some unbelievable transfers and abandonments of meetings, courtesy of the horrific track surfaces, so the 2023 Pakuranga Hunt will now host a meeting of 2 halves ! The Hunt Cup and the main hurdle race will happen at Te Rapa on Saturday, August 26, the other races on Sunday September 3 at Hawera, some 400 km from the spiritual home of the Pakuranga Hunt.
THE GREAT DETERIORATION
' Twas 50 years ago when I was in between racing jobs. After 2 years as a clerk at headquarters in Wellington ( now NZTR ) then a tip off that would get the dream job ( then ) for a teenager, NZ Herald junior racing reporter, in August 1973.
When horse racing was the only thing you could bet on legally, apart from a lottery thing named ' Golden Kiwi. ' You couldn't bet on any Australian races or sport, and racing's public profile was high after the big jackpots that drew masses to the racetracks. There would be 6 meetings in NZ on Easter Monday. Now there are 2.
The most important races were long-distance handicaps. 2 milers in NZ like the Auckland, Wellington and NZ Cups and Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane Cups the standouts in Australia. Trainers had to be a lot smarter, in having to carefully place their horses to get lighter weights in handicaps.
The majority of horses had just one owner, and the rules permitted a maximum of 3. Today's syndicates have a lot of 1 to 5 percenters who still call it ' my horse.'
30 horses in work was a big stable then, and some very astute trainers could make a living from less than 10 in training. These astute men had NZ-owned and trained horses winning 30% of the mighty Melbourne Cups in the 1960s and 70s. The astute trainers have been replaced by horse factories, with corporate-style stables in the Waikato having over 100 in work. No surprise that the last NZ-trained Melbourne Cup winner happened in 2001, before that 1988.
BREEDERS ARE THE REAL ' PAKURANGAS '
There were very few bloodstock agents in 1973. People bought or bred horses to race them, to have a social day out, away from the normal grind. The owners were usually self-employed and often rich, and hopeful of social advancement with a ' good horse.' Setting one up for the punt was more important than selling the precocious youngster to Asia. And much more lucrative when only one owner was involved.
Every town in the country had a TAB agency. Manned by clerks who'd hand write the betting tickets. And phone head office in Wellington with their figures just before the race started. And every pub had an illegal s.p bookmaker. Astute trainers were known to punt big with s.p bookmakers to preserve their tote dividends.
Nowadays you can bet on anything and TAB horse racing turnovers are tumbling. And all the dumb pakurangas on Trackside Channel babble on and on about breeding. Under orders, obviously, as breeders control the NZ industry, but are failing hopelessly in their own game.
These breeder pakurangas are behind the ' Donalding ' of jumps racing, because there's no demand for relatives of plodding old steeplechasers at the next yearling sales. When there's the need to breed for greed and speed, and short races for 2 and 3 year-olds.
But in the last 6 years, NZ's thoroughbred foal crop has dropped by an alarming 40% !
THE MEMORIES
Lest we never forget that racing needs losing gamblers to survive. And nothing's gonna suddenly make the world think that boring old NZ horse racing is so cool to bet on. And the deterioration will continue. Unfortunate, but not terribly for members of the Golden Generation:
' I'm not really sad, ' said the jumps racing legend Anne Browne ( 84 ).' Kenny and I won all those races and nothing will take that away.' Officially the late F.K.S Browne and wife Anne won the Great Northern Steeplechase an incredible 9 times.
I suggested to Anne that we feel sorry for the poor bastards who'll never see another Kenny Browne--- ' definitely not ' --- or greats of jumps racing like Dennis Gray, Tim Douglas, Freda White, Baggy Hillis etc, with a special chuckle from Anne when I added a few of jumps racing's legendary larrikins.
And never will the young racing media know the northern region jockeys' rooms of the 1970s. Full of guys with Group One wins in Australia, like R J Skelton, J P Riordan, G R Edge, R W Taylor, R C Lang, G L Willetts, B F Andrews, D J Wyatt, D A Peake and W A Smith, often with R B Marsh, N Eastwood, M R Campbell, B P Thomson and W D Skelton venturing up from the central region.
How blessed to be able to pick the brains of Australian Group One-winning trainers in the north like R C Verner, C M Jillings, I R Tucker, R T Cotter, R F Douglas, L H and R A Robinson, R J Campbell, D J O'Sullivan, F R Begueley, B J Smith, T H Knowles, M E Ritchie and A C McGovern etc. And trying to pick the brains of J W and W C Winder, who weren't as friendly towards the press. Add central districts visitors with Australian milestones like S A Brown, E Ropiha, E Temperton and W McEwan.
Quite amazing to hark back, especially when it's so hard to find trainers as astute these days. Maybe A Forsman and M Walker. And the standard of riding has slipped so badly that only O P Bosson of today would sit comfortably in the jockeys’ room with the Skeltons and co of 50 years back. With the current season unfortunately claiming 2 racetrack deaths, the worst since 2001.
But we have all those amazing memories that would have dimmed if I'd remained a racing journo and had to write about today's rubbish. No regrets about becoming an Astrologer and getting several of the great men above interested. So often it's the only thing that can explain the unexplainable.
And most importantly, many ex-jockeys have sought Astrological enlightenment in these last 30 amazing years. So very important in testing times. And the feedback from these people has been very inspiring as well.
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
― Pablo Picasso
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DEALING WITH DECEMBER'S DISASTERS
July 27
One of the joys of the awesome Kiwi childhood for Golden Generation kids was the Boy Scout movement.
Adventures, fun, expeditions and camping, always with the ' Be prepared ' motto. Which was recalled on June 28 when we updated the serious economic problems of China, that's also 5-6 months from their rock bottom. Upon receiving the news, I went straight to the Chinese supermarket in Panmure that stocks the awesome Durian pies.
Durian pies are a very tasty Oriental sweet, made mainly with condensed milk, coconut cream and pulp from the ugly, awful-smelling Durian plant. In a typical, disorganised Asian shop with cardboard boxes piled up hither and thither, and ' $3.99 ea ' crayoned on a box lid. For a packet of 4 carefully wrapped in cellophane, this awesome delicacy is very popular with my Buddhist friends, especially the Monks.
Early June had broken a 2-months drought of Durian imports, and more recently the Chinese proprietor indicated that the next shipment might be 3 months away ! Hark back to a prediction here on December 31, 2022:
THOSE ' FINANCIAL PROBLEMS '
' Next stop was the natal chart of China. A big ouch there, with explosive activity around May and June. A Mars--Jupiter negative is very unproductive and often aligned with job loss.The 2nd House of money and possessions is very involved.
Same era has Neptune--Sun negativity, causing a victim to be gullible, confused, unhealthy and careless with money. House 10 of status and ranking is involved, also the 9th of foreign lands.....
The deterioration continues with a serious Sun-Saturn negative supervising great restrictions in October, November and December. The domains of finance and foreign lands are involved ! '
More harking back to a September 2021 forecast for NZ and
' October 023 has progressed Jupiter assaulting the Sun. November 023 hosts destructive Mars attacking Pluto with Saturn attacking the Moon around January 024.
2023 is gonna be very entertaining. Astrologically, 3 times more serious than either 2020 or 2021 ! '
Then noted that NZ's under-fire Sun resides in House 8, that's about inherited money, and rules House 2, the domain of earned money. All about financial problems, eh ? So last week's announcement was reasonably hilarious:
Numerous factors have collided to see our collective debt burden rise by more than $60 billion in a year. The latest figures show that the grand total rose to $790b from $739b the previous year !
Therefore another visit to the Durian place last week, for more stock. Aware of NZ's serious situation, also with China's ' great restrictions in October, November and December, ' as well as the warfare up around Ukraine. Be prepared is still the motto, considering the possibilities of economic sanctions, lockdowns and the Durian factory going into receivership or getting destroyed by a bomb !
Or NZ's creditors might get heavy and start banning imports from China !
The 3 Buddhist Monks were very appreciative of their Durian pies again at lunch last Sunday, prompting some serious economic discussions. The Chinese shop in Panmure has almost run out of stock now, after some of the proceeds from our recent 26--1 betting coup were invested in the Durian industry.
With the Boy Scout motto in mind, the Monks were reassured that we ain't gonna run out of our number one sweet for a very long time.
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' Neptune confusing ' KIRI ALLAN
July 25
Down on July 17 we were considering the legacy of screen icon Beth Heke, and all the lippy Maori sheilas in politics shooting their mouths off lately.
From which there emerged some Gold:
' Kiri Allan was recently outed as a ' bully ' and took some mental health leave. Of which she will need more, with nebulous Neptune confusing her Mercury until next January.'
Monday morning is always mirthful, then this happens:
' Justice Minister Kiri Allan has resigned as a Cabinet minister after being charged with reckless driving and resisting arrest in Wellington last night.
Allan was taken into police custody on Sunday night after a car crash in Wellington and “is assisting with inquiries”. '
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CBD GUNMAN: WHAT THEY KEPT SECRET
July 24
A nation was allegedly ' in mourning ' after the shooting trifecta in an ugly part ( CBD ) of Auckland last Thursday.
Sure, the victims were obviously in the wrong place, and subject to the Astrological formula for death that I still haven't cracked. But there could only be one appraisal for the ' in mourning ' nation:
GOOD FUCKING JOB
This cultureless, ' in mourning ' nation has political, police and media systems laden with liars, cowards and bullies. Astrology is the only method that gets anything right but there are so many haters. Only a sick bastard could ignore our magnificent prophecies.
We do have occasional errors. 2 of our 3 racing investments this season failed, but the other stormed home, with $26 the return for the fixed-odds eagles among my very happy clientele ! You spent $3 in the season and got $26 back. Or $300 became $2600.
As noted last month, our 2022-23 racing season has been relatively quiet, with Pluto assaulting my own Ascendant and Moon. Pluto assaulting one's Moon can be very disastrous if not managed properly, with few more notable than the Pluto v Moon in 2007 All Blacks' coach Graham Henry's chart. And the amazing 4 years warning of one of NZ's biggest-ever disasters, that Rugby World Cup quarter-final loss to France !
THAT GOLDEN GENERATION
That's when the fight started. After the dirty media scabs of print, TV and radio refused to acknowledge one of the greatest-ever prophecies, I ceased to be a ' Kiwi ' and patched over to be an ' Otahuhu ' citizen. ( See July 21 for Otahuhu ' terms and conditions.')
Now you couldn't swap the amazing NZ upbringing for kids born in the 1940s and 50s. The motivated parents and role models, with minimal television and pubs closing at 6 pm. The empowerment of the trade union movement. The self-employment opportunities, the cash businesses, and the unemployment benefit when you felt like a break. Many countries don't have that, thanks NZ.
Then you get the easy-to-live-on pension, but still no reason to be a ' New Zealander.' The great men who inspired children of the Golden Generation would be turning in their graves looking at the mess today. And feeling sorry for the poor bastards who've put their trust in ' the system. '
Meanwhile, the Champion Racing System will continue the plundering. Still treading carefully, with Pluto's final hit on my Moon eliminating November and December as productive months.
CHRISTMAS CRACK UPS
Since 2019 began, 4.5 years ago, we've had just 17 investments, for 7 wins, with an average win dividend of $12.99 on a 41% winning strike rate !
It's fun beating the cruel system that's breaking so many people. Anyone can join us, as long as you can read, write and count. We've got many options until October, then the 2 unproductive months, that will still be extremely mirthful.
The serious pre-Christmas recession hits-- difficult progressions involving Jupiter-Sun and Mars-Pluto--that I started warning about in mid-2021, are going to be quite brutal for poor, retarded New Zealanders.
Many plurals for a nation ' in mourning, ' remembering that you can't help Stupid if he/she/it doesn't want to be helped !
THE GUNMAN
' Gunman Matu Reid, who died and was responsible for two other deaths in Thursday’s Auckland shooting, had been assessed as being at “low risk” of reoffending by a probation officer. How did that happen? '
Because they forgot to consult the Court Astrologer ! Who would have marvelled at the obvious depression and anger management issues in Reid's natal chart. 2023 would have transits and progressions that would have ensured a ' Fuck no ! ' when Home D was being considered.
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BIRTHDAYS
July 23
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Stephen Lindsay 75 Michael Trinder 74 Kevin Smith 64 Sue Thompson-Brown 63 Julie Krone 60 Jenny Vance 58 Wayne and Bryce Revell 54 Luke Dittman 32
Monday: Vic Douglas 65 Opie Bosson 43 Luke Currie 42
Tuesday: Kalai Selvan 48
Wednesday: Craig Lupton 75 Kathryn Durden 58
Thursday: Peter Gelagotis 56 Corey Argue 43
Friday: John Letts 80 Lee Curtis 61 Maryanne Brosnan 57 Fiona Long 52
Saturday: Dermott Weld 75 Brian Wood 71 Kim Hickey 51
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THE GREAT POLYNESIAN REVOLUTION
July 21
Polly the Polynesian from Otahuhu makes the most awesome pineapple pies.
I discovered this wonderful Samoan lady at the Otahuhu Thursday flea market. Inside, selling those half-moon shaped pineapple pies that I so vividly recall discovering in December 1988. While doing canvassing work for a soft drink company in Otara, with a 17 year-old workmate named Roy Lange, son of then Prime Minister David Lange. Whom Polly remembered as a very good man.
One cold, wet Thursday morning recently I received a phone call at 6.30 a.m. The WTF ? happened to be Polly the ' Pie Fala. ' She who wakes and bakes at 4 a.m, to tell me that all her pies have been taken, except for my standing 4 order, so she won't be going to the market. Instead she'll deliver them personally before 8 a.m.
Sure enough, Polly rocks up at 7.40 a.m with the hot pies. 7.42 a.m there's ' Come and get your breakfast, bro' ' to a Samoan neighbour. Who's just as likely to leap over the fence with a feed of Povi Masima. Over the same fence some 10 years back, a 7 year-old Indian girl offered a plate and TOLD me that she wanted some more Guavas from my tree.
' And I'll get you some of mummy's cakes ! '
This is a normal in the region known as the Chocolate Triangle, encompassing Otahuhu, Otara and Mangere. Full of Polynesians, Asians and Indians etc, trying to preserve their traditions and cultures. They think kindness, family and community.
THE REST HOME CULTURE
I'm a member of the Buddhist community, another wonderful place where it's hard to question a request. You move this, carry that, you take that up to the Monk. Give the Monk a ride over to the Mangere Temple. Take all this food home. Endorsing this beautiful culture to a Laos man got ' And you guys don't look after your old people ! '
' Yes we do,' was the reply. ' We dump them in rest homes.'
You go to a rest home in Otahuhu to see an old racing mate. Polynesian lady directs you to a door where another Polynesian lady shows the room where Mr H and 7 others are gazing at the television. All palagi. I sought further opinion from an Ethiopian mate who worked in a Balmoral rest home.50 in her side, a Chinese and Indian each and 48 whites.
So I can return to the Laos man with ' No, only 90-something per cent of them get dumped in rest homes.'
The great culture of respect, family and kindness drags many great sportsmen back from overseas life, especially to bring their children up in the region, and care for their elders. Names like Vainikolo, Mealamu, Wiki, Carmont, Vahafolau, Tuivasa-Scheck etc.
And I marvel at the contrasting cultures in the media and horse racing, where your goodness is gauged on your ratings, or the number of Group One wins you've gathered !
JOHN HOPOATE'S MASTER PLAN
The great man was concerned, like many wise Tongans, about their young being led astray by the evils of palagi society. And dreading the day when the new-age, palagi media role models--the drunks and drug addicts with depression problems, and horrific parenting fails--might replace wisdom and respect.
J Hopoate won a Rugby League World Cup with Australia and became their heavyweight boxing champion. In 2017, the father of 11 summoned Australia's leading Tongan player, Andrew Fifita and the NZ equal, Jason Taumalolo with a plan.
We get all the best Tongan players to represent their homeland, and keep our culture alive. No problems there and in November 2017, the Tongan team beat NZ for the first-time ever.
2 years later the Mate Ma'a Tonga coach, Australian Kristian Woolf, was sacked after he and J Hopoate had opened a big can of worms in the governing body's finances. The entire team staunchly backed Woolf, and he was reinstated. Just a few weeks later, Tonga gained maiden wins over England and Australia in consecutive weekends !
AND THE SAMOANS
Eccentric Tongan fans were on the world stage, with their street parades, flying flags and gridlock. With Otahuhu's main street closed one Monday afternoon, requiring 8 stationery police cars to block feeder roads.
Naturally their Samoan brothers and sisters followed, and Otahuhu was one of many happy places last year. Toa Samoa, also containing many who'd patched over from Australia and NZ, gained their maiden win over England and made the RLWC Grand Final !
It’s the same with rugby teams, and plenty of Polynesian women are in the internationals of both codes. They are prouder than ever of their cultures, thanks to J Hopoate's master plan.
A Tongan lawyer mate agreed that ' I couldn't go to my grave without meeting Hoppa. ' Suggesting help from his cousin, the media liaison officer with Mate Ma'a Tonga, who'd been a classmate of mine at Mt Albert Grammar in 1970.
' Tell Hoppa about the ( Tongan ) flag on your car , ' was further advice. 2 phone calls, a name to mention at the gate and I'm at their closed training session. Shaking Hoppa's big hand, eventually asking the serious question: Would I be the first white man ever to chauffeur a Buddhist Monk in a car with a Tongan flag on top ?
Hoppa couldn't answer, he was laughing so much. As do many when they notice a senior palagi citizen in a little blue car with the red and white flag on top.
Now the trademark Polynesian laughter is not encouraged by the New World Order. Mr Rothschild wants all to be as gloomy and miserable as his media headlines.
He would rather the masses ate KFC or McDonalds instead of Polly's creations and Povi, and have them worshipping ' power couples ' like Brooke Howard-Smith and Amber Peebles ( in NZ ) instead of deep thinkers like Hoppa and Polly.
Polly Pie Fala missed last week's market, so I phoned her. No 4 a.m start today, more like 4 p.m, and she phones up at 6.30 pm, just taking the pies out of the oven, with an e.t.a of 15-20 minutes.
25 minutes later, in driving rain, 4 warm pineapple pies in a bag ' and a little treat below them ' ---- punnets containing 4 freshly-baked scones with jam and cream !
Share with Indian and Samoan neighbours, of course, but not the English air hostess. She'd flown off to Perth that afternoon, missing her pineapple pie debut for the 3rd consecutive week !
Polly was very sympathetic, but next week Ms frequent flyer was home and very impressed with the first taste.
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MONITORING MARAMA DAVIDSON
July 17
Beth Heke has a lot to answer for.
Beth, played by Rena Owen, was the victim in the iconic NZ movie ONCE WERE WARRIORS. All about the drink and violence culture of the Maori. Beth got plenty of beatings from Jake the Muss ( Tem Morrison ), most notably when she refused to cook him some eggs.
That was nearly 30 years ago. When Maori women, as one of Beth's sympathisers claimed, were supposed to just keep their mouths shut and their legs open. Times have changed, and there are many lippy Maori sheilas following in Beth's footsteps and shooting their mouths off these days.
Pollies like Marama Davidson, Nanaia Mahuta and Kiri Allan in particular, as well as Wellington mayor Tory Whanau. This one's appearance in last November's Annuals is looking very good:
' Mahuta, Nanaia:
Erratic behaviour and energy restructuring from Uranus-Mars attack with March, June, Sept, Oct, Dec crucial. Major Pluto-Jupiter career change 024. '
Definitely a candidate for a sacking, maybe even a smacking if she refuses to cook someone's eggs. Kiri Allan was recently outed as a ' bully ' and took some mental health leave. Of which she will need more, with nebulous Neptune confusing her Mercury until next January.
Unfortunately I was unable to locate birth information for Ms Whanau. Obviously she would possess some dynamic aspects, after infamously leaving a Wellington restaurant inebriated enough to forget about paying the bill ! ( They didn't cook my eggs properly ? )
But there's a storm warning for Marama Davidson, already slotted in for the November 2023 Annuals. She's got Pluto whacking her Mars next year, the aspect that's already supervised major reversals for league coach Anthony Griffin and rugby's Beauden Barrett in 2023 !
And last year was doing same to rugby league's Reece Walsh and Brad Fittler, as well as jockey Leith Innes.
' Davidson, Marama:
Polly in need of supervision, and time out, with Pluto-Mars attacks in March, June and Jan 025. Neptune strain April, Sept.'
DEVLIN'S DERANGED EX
The angry women syndrome isn't just confined to the wahines, for palagi females can be just as uppity. All because of that phenomenal prophecy about the extreme weakening of the male, from Pluto's tour de conservative Capricorn between 2008 and 2024. Once upon a time the respected male, whose wage could support the family from an own business or the strength of the trade union movement. The interim has supervised the creation of many wimps and wusses.
2 winters back I was marvelling at the viciousness of Ms Andi Brotherston, the deranged, estranged ex-wife of troubled broadcaster Martin Devlin. She had reacted very badly when reminded of a quote from Murray Deaker ONZM about my stunning prediction on his protege Devlin's major problems way back in 2003. Plus I had a mid-2021 warning about Devlin needing ' gardening leave ' and ' monitoring ' over the next 2 months. Angry Andi's reply on Facebook was Gold:
' Fuck off Don. The way you try and make money out of people's pain is disgusting.'
Rather notably M Devlin tried topping himself during the recommended ' monitoring ' phase. If there was any ' people's pain ' involved, I certainly didn't make any money out of it.
With NZ's predicted massive turmoil for November and December 2023 tracking very nicely, there's gonna be a lot more angry people.
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BIRTHDAYS
July 16
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Royce Dowling 84 Jamie Phillips 57
Monday: Graeme Rogerson and Camilla Parker-Bowles 66 Gary Cossey 53 Phil Turner 39
Tuesday: Gavin McKeon 44 Jason Peake 52 Sean Campton 51
Wednesday: Cherie Curtis 62 Michael Coleman 54
Thursday: Thomas Russell 41 Paddy Bell 35
Friday: Nina Carberry 39
Saturday: Ross Fisher 83 Tom Hughes 57 Jay Misbah and Varma Ramhit 40
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OUR $26 WINNER
July 14
My punting clients received an email on Wednesday around dinner time.
' Trainer Jim Collett has a rare buzz tomorrow evening.
He has a horse racing at Cambridge at 4.28 pm, paying $26 on Fixed odds.
Cambridge M2 R8 N7 So The Fox '
And it slaughtered them ! Slow away, rear to turn and flew home to win by a length. With a formline of 088 ! On the tote the dividends were $18.10 win and $3.90 place. All Wednesday afternoon I was cursing the slow TAB, awaiting the fixed odds. The $26 was appreciated and clients instantly emailed.
That was actually only our 2nd investment for the season. As noted last month, Pluto's been harassing my Ascendant last year and Moon this year,: ' There's some easing in July and possibilities in the spring, but full-on plunder after January 2024 when I'm to be enhanced by all kinds of Uranus and Pluto positivity for 2 years. To continue our amazing take outs: '
Under Pluto harassment I encounter bad luck. When the trainers slotted in for awesome days don't line up. That all changes when Uranus and Pluto start being helpful or ' there's some easing in July '
The once noble industry is rooted. Their media and managers despise Astrological magnificence, which enhances the thrill of our plunges. Anybody with an anti-establishment attitude is welcome to join us.
SO THE FOX in blue and white colours, slow away.
https://loveracing.nz/RaceInfo/51488/8/Race-Detail.aspx
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FREE: MILLIONS OF RACING HISTORIES
July 12
Back in 1966, at Ruawai Primary School, my teacher was a horse racing fanatic named George Tooman.
As was I, and becoming the teacher's pet was a formality, with my father's first cousin Wally Pratt training one of the country's champions of the era, Tatua. Some favours, like sneaking across to the headmaster's house to watch Tatua win in front of the Queen Mother at Ellerslie, the first-ever race televised live in NZ.
92 year-old George was recently moved into care and an email came from one of his children, suggesting I might like 5 boxes of old racing books and things. Definitely, except the 5 boxes were 8, and laden with amazing history. Hundreds of racecards, dating back to the Otahuhu Trotting Club's Summer meeting at Alexandra Park, Epsom on February 19 and 23, 1927.
GARRY ' MASTERMIND ' EDGE
Many are the contemporaries with wonderful memories on Facebook's Horse Racing People page. Where it was only natural to mention my recent discovery of the racecard for the Cambridge Jockey Club meeting at the old Cambridge track, on Saturday, November 7, 1959.
Instant recall from a jockey who was a childhood hero, winning many races on Tatua for 2nd cousin Wally, including the 1962 Great Northern Derby:
Garry Edge don that was the last day gallops were held on the track i won the big race on old salt for my old boss wallace townsend he was in tears when i came back to weigh in because after all those yrs training there it ended like this
Don Murray Garry I'll keep that book as a collector's item. Old Salt won the Mervyn Wells Handicap, no riders here for that race, Golden Seaman trained by Terry Alcock at Pukekohe was 2nd and Brightson Meyer's On Demand was 3rd.
Garry Edge don ho choy ridden by bill smith won the last race bill winder trained
Don Murray Jesus you've got a memory Garry Edge. You'll probably remember that in Race 8, Maungatautari Handicap, other riders were H Rauhihi, G Edge, B Andrews, G McLiesh, Benny Craig, R Leggett, R Forbes, G Willetts, D Wyatt but the writing is bad, 2 names I can't decipher, but Garry Edge will probably remember, they rode for J L McDonald and L W Ford.
Garry Edge cremovana tony pericich
The memory ! That was nearly 64 years ago !
In the meantime-- thousands of racecards from NZ, Australia, Singapore, Macao, England, Ireland etc, many annuals and biographies, and plenty of racecards and books on harness racing--- are looking for a home.
For anybody who wants them, in my lounge some 40 metres from where the great stallion Carbine used to operate. Collectable from near the Sylvia Park motorway exit, murraydon42@gmail.com
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THOSE ' rudderless young men '
July 10
' Alarmed experts have sounded warning for the mental and physical wellbeing of Kiwi children after new research revealed our kids are spending about a third of after-school time on screens.
The high rate of screen time is exposing youngsters to cyberbullying, harmful sexualised content and inappropriate advertising for sectors such as alcohol and gambling.'
Poor today's kids. When you consider the fortunates born between 1938 and 1958, the Golden Generation with revolutionary Pluto in Leo, that empowered them to change the evil ways of racists, warmongers and broadcasters, and make a much better world. The Golden Generation had parents who'd experienced a World War or 2 and the Great Depression of the 1930s. We can remember when there was no television, pubs closed at 6 pm and ram raiders were exclusive to sheep stations.
The interim has seen drastic changes in the role model scene. Today's kids have parents who've learned to worship mentally-ill broadcasters, the cowards, liars and incompetent fathers with serious substance abuse issues. Names like Holmes, Veitch, Devlin, Deaker, Garner, King etc. Many parents have been replaced by ' counsellors.'
Imagine having mothers who drooled over things like Susan Wood, Jayjay Feeney or the late Charlotte Dawson ?
It's full-on amusement in NZ, and still 4--5 months away from the peak of the 2023 recession. Unbelievable skyrocketing in youth crime stats involving ' rudderless young men, ' as we recall the epic warning here in January 2008. When previewing revolutionary Pluto's movement into the Capricorn sign in March, 2008: Including:
' But the scary piece relates to the massively changing role of the father figure, as the family unit slowly disappears and marriage becomes just another episode in life's great soap opera for many.
Naturally there will be a massive increase in the numbers of rudderless young men lacking direction, with no-one to guide and teach them in time-honoured Kiwi male tradition how to drink beer properly and the correct way to watch a rugby game.'
And when Pluto finally leaves Capricorn late in 2024 and claims Aquarius as his home for 20 years, there shall be an unbelievable generation of zombies. The ' whatever ' generation, wobbling around beneath their headphones, squinting into that thing in their left hand. Remember that Aquarius is opposite Leo in the Zodiac, so its new product will be the opposite of the Golden Generation.
There will be a minimum of innovators, deep thinkers and revolutionaries. Robots and computers will replace many humans, with less owning a home and even less having their own business. Humans will be monitored and tracked and cashless society will be a formality.
As we know, Astrology specialises in certainty, and getting it right, which doesn't happen too often elsewhere. With yet another certainty being that, even amidst the universal negativity, Pluto will always be making positive aspects. The upcoming 20 years in Aquarius shall greatly assist the water-bearer's best mates like Libra and Gemini.
There will be a generation of Zombies, just some will be luckier than others.
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BIRTHDAYS
July 9
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Tuesday: W Jock Thomson 72 Luke Dempsey 27
Wednesday: Judy Lawson 51
Friday: Paul Eddery 60 Robert Hannam 57 Terry Moseley 56 Jim Byrne 52 Hugh Bowman 43
Saturday: Sheikh Mohammed and Paul Perry 74 Lorna Woods 40 Sam Fieldes 32
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AIDAN RODLEY-- LIAR OF THE AGES
July 7
The cowards of NZ's pathetic racing media are their normal useless as morale in the once noble industry keeps finding new rock bottoms.
They needed a handout from the TAB's new partner and more dipping into reserves to maintain the stake money levels, basically to keep a few more of the ' good horses ' from heading offshore.
Of course they are assuming that the world is going to suddenly find betting on 3rd-world NZ horse racing attractive. While betting turnovers have been consistently tumbling over the last 12 months, with the last week of June 2023 producing one of the biggest turnover disasters in history.
5 race meetings in that week had turnover drops from last year, notably by 94%, 36%, 32% and 31% ! One other had a small increase.
That's bad, but to be expected with the tedious content on Trackside Channel and the heavy concentration on trying to boost the rapidly declining breeding industry. It's too boring for normal humans, with public perception at an all-time low because they simply don't trust the rapidly diminishing, incestuous family that can't seem to get anything right.
They tell too many lies, especially where ' certainties ' are concerned. And some can't even bullshit properly, like the rapidly-ageing, Trackside Channel lifer Aidan Rodley, who claims to be of November 5, 1982 birth on Facebook !
No way, so more investigation was necessary. The idiot forgot to shred his paper trail, and his stupidity was confirmed in a biography elsewhere !
' I left the Aoraki journalism course in 1997 and went to the Ashburton Guardian, where about a quarter of my role was racing. Then I went to the Taranaki Daily News. '
So Rodley finished the journalism course around his 15th birthday ?
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MAGIC MUSHROOMS: AUSSIE WAKES UP
July 5
I was stunned when the Afghani fellow handed me the pool cue.
Didn't we lose the last game ? ' No, you sunk the last 4 balls,' one of the blonde girls reminded me. Did I really ? ' Yes, we saw it. You are very wasted. '
The Continental Hotel, Broome, North-western Australia,March 1979, drinking orange juice and enjoying magic mushrooms on my last night in sub-tropical paradise. Dangerous in such a state, when I couldn't tell the difference between a pink and a black and I had a pocket full of cash. So I would nip home to stash it, in the boarding house beside the nearby War Memorial Park.
Suddenly I'm running through trenches, surrounded by gunfire and explosions. Ducking for cover, clutching an imaginary rifle and amazed at how close the bright yellow flashes were. A giant orange sun exploding over Roebuck Bay. Then rushing home to warn my housemates about “ the war out there ! ”
“ Did Matt give you some mushrooms ? ” asked the tall indigenous girl.
So that's what it was. Fellow NZer Matt had supervised my magic mushroom debut that evening, and I was a very outtavit pool shark in the pub. But those hallucinations were something extra.
Like LSD, magic mushrooms stir the imagination and take you deeper into what you’re considering. The wrecked Japanese zero fighter plane and a large cannon from World War 2 in the memorial park had taken me into a war zone.
MARMALADE SKIES
Flashback to the awesome LSD parties of 1975-76. I'm sitting under a table in the kitchen gulping marmalade with a dessert spoon. Or thinking I was, just very inspired by a similarly-coloured pile of fire logs nearby.
While mad Charlie was in the lounge, pleading with somebody to fetch his gumboots. He was barefoot and the floor was a sea of broken glass ! Or so Charlie thought, after staring at an empty glass and getting very imaginative.
We were on the same page as John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and their Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds trip that created this !
' Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes '
I have often wondered about the plant that ' God ' must have created, being used to assist the mentally-ill and criminally-inclined. Australia have finally woken up, and that's a step in the right direction:
' Australia has become the first country to classify psychedelics as medicines at a national level in an attempt to address mental health illnesses - with one prominent New Zealand ED doctor saying they could potentially be used here.
The change comes as studies into how psychoactive drugs can impact mental illness are also underway in New Zealand.
Australian psychiatrists can now prescribe MDMA and psilocybin to treat PTSD and treatment-resistant depression to assist therapy sessions, starting July 1.
Psilocybin is found in Magic Mushrooms, it has been used for centuries in native South American religious rituals, alongside other organic hallucinogens and psychedelics.'
THOSE TROTTING HORSES
Back in the 1960s, revolutionary USA thinker Tim Leary was promoting ' tune in, turn on and drop out ' and focusing on the robots of society, the Monday-Friday tragics. Those using around 10% of their brain in normal life, so the narrow of mind were having vacations at a special resort in the Caribbean and taking their LSD trips.
Think of all the heavily-stressed, angry Aucklanders. Probably using 5% of their brain these days. Those going through life as the trotting horse wearing blinkers, the media scabs, sceptics and ' mental health advocates ', the slaves locked into the daily 3 or 4 hours of commuting. Helicopter them to the northern Coromandel or East Cape or the bottom of the South Island.
Gazing at the ocean, surrounded by nature, with mind altering devices like LSD or the Magic Mushrooms which are in NZ. Much more than 5% of the brain will be used.
' Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's gone. '
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Remastered 2009) - YouTube
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THE LEGEND OF REECE WALSH
July 3
Being naughty is very normal for people with Venus and Uranus complications in the natal chart.
Freedom and excitement are 2 of life's most essentials for possessors of this aspect. Normal relationships are impossible.
Especially when the degrees are very tight, for rugby league bad lads like Reece Walsh and Manu Vatuvei, and rugby union's late Sione Lauaki. Also disgraced jockey Jason Waddell, and 2 of the most renowned relationship rogues in recent Royalty, Princess Margaret and Princess Diana !
Add Sir James Wallace, the 85 year-old NZ rich-lister convicted of sexual assault who finally lost the name supression battle.
Walsh produced a beauty recently when he clearly called the referee a ' cunt ' and earned a 3-games suspension. He was long ago identified as a treader of the fine line between genius and lunatic and made a sensational debut in the Annual Prophecies of www.donmurrayastrologer.com in November 2021 !
' Walsh, Reece:
Many upsets for NRL young gun with Pluto attacking his Mars. Feb, June, Dec notable.'
The ' many upsets ' included getting dumped by his partner after some cheating. She and their baby wouldn't be accompanying Walsh to NZ in 2023, so he broke his contract with the NZ Warriors to stay in Brisbane near his daughter. There was also a matter of cocaine possession.
R Walsh is big on family, with a rare stellium ( 5 planets ) in the Cancer sign and terms like protective, nurturing and volatile. With Cancer's normal mood swings and the emotional roller coaster for he who turns 21 on July 10.
Long ago the similarities were noted that R Walsh has with other Cancer sun signers born in Oriental Horse years like 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002 etc. Many uncontrollables here, like footy bad lads Kieran Foran and James O'Connor, boxer Mike Tyson, Auckland underworld legend Petar Vitali and currently incarcerated Melbourne horse trainer Tom Hughes jun etc.
Walshy's really turned his form around in 2023, for which there is a reason. His Mars position ( Cancer 27 ) was getting hammered last year by Pluto in unfriendly Capricorn. Pisces and Cancer are more compatible, with inspirational Neptune in Pisces enhancing that Cancer Mars of R Walsh in 2023 and next year until early 2025 !
Then there'll be more fun and games. Uranus in Taurus assaulting R Walsh's Venus in Leo through 2025-26 will supervise more drama and sudden changes of life.
As you would expect with a restless, roller coaster Cancer Horse.
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BIRTHDAYS
July 2
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Bob Jury 87 Mick Dittman 71 David Skelton 65 Kody Nestor 33
Monday: Barry Pelling 70 Jason Missen 47 Amy Skelton 42
Tuesday: Grant Young 59 Mark Forder 54 Lance McFarlane 44
Wednesday: Alwyn Tweedie 77 Bob Challis 67 Russell Caddy 65 Larry Cassidy 53
Thursday: Alan Jones 83
Friday: Shirley Hunter and Wayne Lacy 57
Saturday: Matthew Faber 58
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WHY J MAC FLOPPED AT ROYAL ASCOT
June 30
NZ Herald
20 June 2023
' New Zealand’s superstar of the saddle James McDonald says being rated the best jockey in the world is more important in the build-up to Royal Ascot than it will be on the track this week.
The world’s most prestigious horse race meeting starts just outside London at 1.30am (NZ time) on Wednesday, and while no New Zealand-trained horses are competing, McDonald is in high demand, set to ride up to 20 horses over the 5-day meeting.
They include Australian sprinters Coolangatta in tomorrow’s Kings Stand, the same race McDonald won last year on Nature Strip, while on Saturday, he partners favourite Artorius in the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes.'
It did not happen. From 15 mounts, J Mac managed just one second placing. No surprise, considering the ' around July ' factor in last November's Annual Prophecies !
' McDonald, James:
Champion jockey facing major personal changes from Pluto-Moon meeting around July. Pluto-Mercury and Neptune-Mars issues also make Jan, Feb, March, May and Aug crucial.'
BILLY SLATER BUNGLE
We know how amazing Astrological prophecies are, but June did bring a rare error, to keep the snivelling, scowling sceptics on life support. From last November:
' Slater, Billy:
Much confusion and indecision for the Queensland coach from Neptune anti his Node and Sun. Saturn attacks on Mercury and Jupiter ensure that March, April, July, Aug, Sept, Oct will be stressful. '
Billy's cane toads have sealed State of Origin, leading the NSW cockroaches 2-0. Obviously other areas of his life are affected, but an error has been registered.
Of course, Astrology is still way in front of the sceptical scabs, 25--2, in the 2023 showdown.
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CHINA ‘ DONALDED ’ AS WELL
June 28
This upcoming, confidently-forecasted recession is gonna be a ripper.
Just a follow up to those awesome prophecies on the beginning and end of the Covid era. And it's going to be fun teasing that percentage of cowardly, hate people who'll never be convinced. Of course you can't help stupid, even when he's had nearly 33 years of hard evidence !
Among Astrology's many wonderful attributes is the versatility. With such a varied bunch featuring in the stunning predictions for 2023 so far.
From cricketers McCullum, Williamson, Stead and Kohli to league star Cleary and Indycar legend Dixon down to the pollies like Wood and Robertson and the headline king ' Harry ' etc. Oh, and the other king ( Charlie ) and his ' major reversals in family matters ' !
Also NZ's recession, and the champion jockeys---Pateman's disqualification and J Mac's flop at Royal Ascot !
Then I receive a message from a very generous foreign investor, wondering if I'd made a prediction on this mob ?
' China’s economy is tanking.
The world expected it to bounce back from the pandemic. Exports were supposed to boom. Investment was supposed to explode. Instead, Beijing’s best-laid plans appear set to implode.
Industrial output. Property financing. Infrastructure spends. Foreign investment.
A string of economic assessments have all come in well below expectations. '
Add the unusually heavy rainfall in May, which local officials said was the worst disruption of the wheat harvest in a decade.
My very last epistle of 2022 ! ( Note the ' explosive activity around May, June ' )
' 2023:CHINA ' DONALDED ' AS WELL
December 31
' Back on October 24, it was revealed that the USA is reasonably ' Donalded ' for late 2023. Joining Australia and NZ in the No Win Bin. With Britain's new prime minister also suffering a pair of chaotic Uranus transits next year as well ! '
Also:
' Next stop was the natal chart of China. A big ouch there, with explosive activity around May and June. A Mars--Jupiter negative is very unproductive and often aligned with job loss.The 2nd House of money and possessions is very involved.
Same era has Neptune--Sun negativity, causing a victim to be gullible, confused, unhealthy and careless with money. House 10 of status and ranking is involved, also the 9th of foreign lands.....
The deterioration continues with a serious Sun-Saturn negative supervising great restrictions in October, November and December. The domains of finance and foreign lands are involved ! '
Next please.
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NO ' SUB ' STITUTE FOR ' TRAVEL ASTROLOGY '
June 26
I've always stressed the importance of checking the planetary situation before travelling.
' The search for the missing Titanic submersible has ended in tragedy, with Coast Guard officials saying it suffered a “catastrophic implosion” that killed the five passengers on board.'
Obviously none of the unfortunates above did any Dieu diligence with the local Astrologer. Because when you're being empowered by awesome Pluto and Uranus trines etc you're in the right place at the right time. You don't get messed up airline schedules and you don't get hijacked. You meet the right people, and you don't get busted for exceeding the speed limit or shellfish quota !
Journalism in 1979 found a fellow who cancelled his plane trip after a psychic went into trance and saw a large plane resting in snow and ice. The ill-fated Mt Erebus flight that killed all 237 passengers and 20 crew members.
Countless tales, from happy clients too, who've had their blissful holidays calculated. ' Travel Astrology ' was tested in New South Wales, twice, with amazing results.
A hitch-hiking Tuesday from Sydney to Port Macquarie in September 1986 had a negative energy bad involving Mars around 4 pm. I considered the possibility of an accident and decided to test this aspect.
TOO MUCH LAUGHTER
On the northern side of Newcastle, a Mini Cooper-driving youth picked me up and it wasn't long before we were laughing our heads off. His mention of ' rugby league injury ' got me mentioning the fun and games with the touring Australian league team in Auckland last year, when I was night porter at their hotel.
8 team members lining up for a Marijuana shotty; very stoned G Dowling stealing the pudding of very stoned G Conescu; P Tunks strutting round the Queen St stark naked at 3 a.m in July, then a sudden interruption:
' Shit, you're going to Port Macquarie, eh ? '
Yes. He'd been laughing so much he missed the turnoff somewhere and we were heading inland. He was very apologetic and would have taken me back to the main drag but he had a meeting in Muswellbrook at 4 p.m. So I trudged back for 20 minutes to find a hitching spot, thinking of the probable improvement after 4 pm .
Spot on. Around 4.10 pm I scored a primo lift, a tradie who was going all the way to Port Macquarie. And near the very street in which I would be staying with a Kiwi jockey mate and his family, arriving around 9 p.m.
Come February 1987 a bigger goal was set. To hitch from Sydney to Brisbane ( 930 km ) in one day !
Much planning went into this Wednesday, specially selected for wonderful aspects and a major happiness buzz around lunchtime.
AN AWESOME RIDE
Spot on with the early bus to the central railway station, and the train to Mt Kuring-gai, but disaster when a ride had to turn off the freeway at Wyong, where there was no on-ramp !
8 a.m rush hour, I'm illegally on the 4-lane freeway, complete with backpack, trying to thumb a ride. Unbelievably a big Kenworth truck screeches on the brakes, pulls over and starts reversing. I run flat out and leap into the cab to a rare greeting:
' I don't normally pick you bastards up, but I love your bloody hat.' -- a red tam o' shanter purchased in the Scottish Highlands.
This guy would be making 2 deliveries at the wharves in Newcastle and if I didn't mind being a passenger for 30 minutes, he'd drop me near the bridge that heads north out of Newcastle.
At 9 a.m I'm thumbing again, knowing that today's blissful aspects would bring me good fortune and an awesome ride.
A small white car with a kayak on top stops and what an awesome ride it would bring. A loosely dressed, persuasive lady heading up to the Myall Lakes (an hour away ) to join a girlfriend and her partner. She had her own tent and a bag of weed.
Instead of a truckie saying ' yeah, I'm going all the way to Brisbane,' this was my ' major happiness buzz around lunchtime.' The carefully planned hitch hiking record attempt was abandoned.
The principles of Travel Astrology still apply, whether you're using a Mini Cooper, Kenworth or submarine.
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BIRTHDAYS
June 25
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Rodney Quinn 63 Wendy Fraser-Campin 54 Glen Lynch 52 Gemma Sliz 42 Daniel Stackhouse 33
Monday: Harry Green 76 Hayden Tinsley 49
Tuesday: Shane McGovern 66 Mark Zahra 41 Bradley Thomas-Rantall 26 Bailey Rogerson 22
Wednesday: Steven Ramsay 50
Thursday: Peter Tims 59
Friday: Bruce Sharrock and Aaron Huke 57
Saturday: Jim Hely 92 Ray Fleming 73 John McGifford 64
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NZ RACING'S BIG CON JOB
June 23
The NZ TAB's recently-formed partnership with English betting giant Entain has always had a suspicious smell about it.
Now the NZ side is leaving 1972’s legendary skunk of Loudon Wainwright for dead. ( ' Roll up your windows, and hold your nose ' )
There was general, blind euphoria when the $20 million increase for NZ racing stakes for next season was announced. Especially when initially it appeared that Entain's contribution would be $11 million tops. Then the Herald's veteran Michael Guerin had some vague answers:
' While the bulk of the new money comes from thoroughbred racing’s share of the Entain sign-on payment, for taking over the running of the New Zealand TAB, NZTR will also dip into their reserves, believed to be over $20 million, to frontload next season’s stakes.'
How much you lazy scab ? How much did NZTR flops ' Bad Karma Cameron ' George and ' Loose Bruce ' Sharrock take from the reserves ? And how much is ' believed to be ' left in the bin ?
As we know so well, George and Sharrock have been borrowing $1 million a month from reserves for the last 8 of the current season to maintain stake money levels ! Courtesy of plummeting recent turnovers, and there's no indication of any improvement. No surprise if they borrowed another $10 mill to prettify the 2023--24 season.
But it's not as if Entain's clients, or anyone, is going to suddenly find it so cool to start gambling on NZ's 3rd-world racing product.
53 year-old Guerin epitomises the iconic ' stale pale male, ' in his 34th year as a Herald racing journalist. He also works for the TAB, the breeders and various racing clubs and cowers away from anything controversial that might upset his string pullers. For the institutionalised, wage-earning, bum wiper who goes through life as a trotting horse wearing blinkers isn't renowned for bravery.
Poor lazy scab. He's watched, and helped, NZ racing plummet from its importance in society of the Golden 1970s. When I was at the Herald, and writing stories about childhood heroes like gun jockeys Garry Edge, Ron Taylor, Gary Willetts, Rodney Heaslip, Graeme Walters and co. Now we're all Facebook friends, laughing at the tragic state today and thankful for experiencing the Golden Era of NZ racing.
Fortunately NZ Herald decided I wasn't guerinish enough to keep, after less than 4 years. I discovered something a lot more productive.
THE CHAMPION RACING SYSTEM
which could be facing its first losing season in 7 !
Yep, we've only had one investment since the current season began last August. Not really a problem, one treads warily with Pluto attacking my Ascendant last year and the Moon in 2023. There's some easing in July and possibilities in the spring, but full-on plunder after January 2024 when I'm to be enhanced by all kinds of Uranus and Pluto positivity for 2 years. To continue our amazing take outs:
THE AWESOME BANK
Starting deposit $100 into TAB account
current season $00
final balance 2021-22 $2140
final balance 2020-21 $740
final balance 2019-20 $470
final balance 2018-19 $1750
final balance 2017-18 $1000
final balance 2016-17 $1230
final balance 2015-16 $00 ( i.e we lost $100 that season )
final balance 2014-15 $490
final balance 2013-14 $2270
final balance 2012-13 $240
final balance 2011-12 $3990
From a horse racing investment system that went on the market in November 1985. With balances obtained by placing $100 a win on selections from the Don Murray Racing System. It's nearly 7 years since we had a win dividend of less than $3.80. December 2013 had a $28 winner and January 2022 a $27 shot.
' That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Money for nothin' and your chicks for free '
--Mark Knopfler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTrXjnGGo7w
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SCOTT DIXON'S ' CRUCIAL JUNE '
June 21
Being your own boss is something extra. There's the bliss of working when you feel like it, but it goes to another level with the feedback.
Yesterday, from an Australian jockey, who requested an Astrological enlightenment:
' Thank you, the descriptions of me, my personality traits and my past are really accurate.'
2 years back an Indian client phoned, just to check that I was ' still in the same place,' if they happened to be in the area. 20 minutes later she and husband arrived, with a bunch of flowers for my birthday. And to gloat about the business they'd started in the first year of lockdown, with 40 employees !
Then Mrs Indian admitted the visit was also an excuse for husband to show off the new Mercedes he'd bought her.
A former national sports champion client was very impressed by what the past analysis had picked up, with ' some of it quite scary.'
A 22 year-old Chinese entrepreneur also requested a gloat session. We smoked some weed, and she told me how she'd started 2 businesses amidst the fearful era of jabs and masks. 3 hours later she's ' Fuck, the time ! ' and texted her soon-to-be-replaced boyfriend to come and collect her.
Humans gain confidence from the Astrological connection.
More recent feedback in the mainstream media. Nothing's been going right for Indycar icon Scott Dixon on the track this year. Then this happens:
' Reigning IndyCar champion Will Power shoved Scott Dixon after the two were involved in a crash on Saturday (Sunday NZ time) that severely damaged both cars during practice at Road America.
Dixon, the six-time IndyCar champion, had spun on course and re-entered the track ahead of Romain Grosjean and Power. Dixon allowed enough room for Grosjean to get by, but as Power approached the gap closed and Power couldn’t avoid hitting Dixon.'
Hardly a surprise after the appearance in the November 2022 Annual Prophecies !
' Dixon, Scott:
Gap year recommended for Indycar legend courtesy of Pluto-Sun and Uranus-Node complications. Jan, May, June, Nov crucial, also Jan, March of 024.'
And there'd be a few more humans needing ' Gap year ' recommendations, with NZ to be hammered by the recession for the next 6-8 months !
' Use it, or lose it,' is the Astrological verdict.
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NAILING THIS RECESSION
June 19
Astrology just keeps on delivering.
The recently-declared ' recession ' was being promoted here 2 years ago ! With the late year Jupiter-Sun and Mars-Pluto turmoils heralding the warning to ' Beware the Ides of November 2023 ! '
While noting that those hits can be felt 5-6 months beforehand. Hits like the Jupiter-Sun financial turmoils for NZ around next November.And the violent, unproductive clash of Mars and Pluto in December.
Plenty will suffer and for many there can only be one verdict: GOOD FUCKING JOB.
There are some very nasty people out there. And there is no need to remind the cowards and sick bastards and those filthy NZ Skeptics about Astrology's magnificence. Like the long-range Horse Racing Certainties, as far as 5 years, 4 months and 3 days in advance ? The first-ever ' unbeatable, ' in horse racing's Friday Flash, celebrates its 33rd birthday next month.
As much as 4 years warning of major national disasters and the epic prophesies on Covid's beginning and endings ? And those amazing talkback performances on Radio Pacific, Radio Live, Humm Fm and Newstalk ZB for 18 years, and the ravings of Murray Deaker ONZM ? ( Tempered unfortunately by some of the blatant lies of the media about great prophecies.)
Astrological magnificence helps you understand and prepare for your future. Yesterday morning I received an email from an Australian jockey with career dilemmas. The day before, an Auckland Asian requested assistance with his snowboarding adventures of the winter.
NZ is a nation that cowers away from the truth, and liars become part of the furniture. So many go through life as the trotting horse wearing blinkers. The kind who worships the weirdo ( Kirwan ), that gained a knighthood ' for services to rugby and mental health ' but encourages people to drink the alcohol he markets !
But the kids keep us amused. Their use of anti-depressants is skyrocketing and boys as young as 10 are involved in the rammies that can earn them a gang patch !
Lest we never forget the laws of supply and demand when assessing the state of the nation. Recent headline:
Largest ever NZ drug smuggle busted, year's worth of meth hidden in maple syrup bottles
Smoking P must be just as popular as ever.
That angry Mars-Pluto phase affecting NZ around December has further significance when you consider Auckland's immediate future. Back on February 3 it was noted that confusing, deceptive Neptune would be anti Auckland's Sun this year--until December !
The Astrological advantage is knowing when the bad shit's gonna end, and you don't need to be considering razor blades or the noose. February and March will not be happy for NZ, with many restrictions from Saturn smacking its Moon.
But all shall be forgotten in April and May. A powerful Pluto-Sun progression gets the economy back on track and 2024 will be a lot more productive for NZ.
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BIRTHDAYS
June 18
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Craig Cossill 60 Chris O’Brien 54 Billy Slater 40 Colm Murray 37
Monday : Fred Head 77 Philip Mercer 59 Paula Wilkinson 56 Clinton McDonald 48
Tuesday: Snooky Cowan 62
Wednesday: Norm Sowter and Stu Dromgool 88 Robbie Waterhouse 69 Laurie Paltridge 64 Scott Seamer 55
Thursday: Raelene Whiteside 73 Michael Kinane 64 Wayne Hillis 61 Damien Oliver and Ricky Donnelly 51 Cory Parish 34
Friday: Roly Saxton 55 Teo Nugent 25
Saturday: Tom Wood 33
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ARLO GUTHRIE AT NZ HERALD
June 16
Arlo Guthrie's City of New Orleans ( 1972 ) is one of my G.O.A.T songs.
And I reckon the great man could quite easily adapt his ' Good morning, America ' masterpiece to the NZ Herald:
Good morning, New Zealand, how are you ?
Don't you know me, I'm your morning news
I bring you all the wonderful, happy stories
That'll make you so depressed and wanna hit the booze.
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Night time in the city of Auckland
Herald's preparing stories for the nation to be dreading
A sub-editor is going a bit mental because
You must have ' heartbreaking ' in the heading !
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And you have to have the right photo
as he disses another dud
Then punches the air in triumph
The 12 year-old victim covered in blood !
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Mindless slaves working to con
the many-headed monster of the pit
Journalists in their 50s and 60s
being treated like pieces of shit.
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Good night, New Zealand, how were you ?
Unhappy or did you fly into a rage ?
Get drunk or take anti-depressants to help you sleep
And dream about tomorrow's front page !
'Died without dignity': Rest home patient attacked in final days of life
'Truly horrific': Driver arrested in wedding bus crash - 10 dead, 25 injured
Watch: Shocking moment Brisbane wife mows down cheating husband and mistress in her SUV
Watch: Supermarket worker takes on iron bar-wielding man as retail crime rates soar
Watch: Footage of car fire on SH29 near Tauranga
Watch: Drone footage shows shocking scale of India train crash
Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans - YouTube
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' BRAINS WIRED DIFFERENTLY '
June 14
Sick New Zealand reached another low last week with ' neurodiversity.'
' A new podcast launching this week from the New Zealand Herald and Team Uniform, hosted by TV personality Sonia Gray, will explore the complex world of neurodiversity and the many conditions that fall under this umbrella.
The series is inspired by Gray’s own experiences as the parent of a neurodivergent child and as an ADHDer herself - a diagnosis she got only after going through the process with her daughter. She will talk with dozens of experts and people with lived experience to better understand, support and celebrate those whose brains are wired differently.'
Rather ironically, 41 years ago last month there was a conference in a pub near Brighton, England, that celebrated ' those whose brains are wired differently ' !
There was the acting great Sir Richard Burton, then trashing 2 bottles of vodka a day; a wealthy, washed-up acting colleague of his and myself. We formed the ' Moon-Neptune Society, ' to celebrate those born when the Moon was alongside planet Neptune. A textbook description:
' Moon blending with Neptune
You have a tireless imagination and the ability to visualize your dreams and fantasies into reality, if you can put forth the necessary work it takes. You are indeed a dreamer, very much attuned to the world of illusion and mystery. You retreat into your own little world to escape the pressures and hardships of the world. Escapism includes sexual promiscuity, heavy drinking and drug-taking that can be replaced by travel to distant lands. Many in both sexes with the affliction experience unplanned pregnancies. They can ' drop out ' quite easily.'
My Astrological discoveries had us 3 born when the Moon was alongside planet Neptune. So they were very pleased to realise that all of their sins had been predetermined ! Sir Richard's mate even got me to read aloud, in the bar I tended, an Astrological description of his personal frailties ' so all these fools know that I am acting normally ! '
A son of another acting great, Elizabeth Taylor and also Sir Richard's step-son, also loved smoking weed and craved membership of the exclusive society. Declined, simply because he wasn't born in a Moon-Neptune phase. ( Only around 0.83% of the world are.)
Without their knowledge, many others have gained membership to the Moon-Neptune Society. Very notable NZ-borns like bi-sexual, cocaine-using,
Not all get up to mischief. Foreigners like Albert Schweitzer and the Dalai Lama were born when the Moon and Neptune were snogging. The Moon-Neptune conjunction is just one of many formulae for ' brains wired differently.' Great personal intensities and addictions also arise when the Moon is courting mad-dog Uranus, or sad sack Saturn or revolutionary Pluto.
It is obvious that our traits are created at birth. Astrology has found formulae for epilepsy, depression, compulsive gambling, cancer, anger management issues, nymphomania, alcoholism etc . Further study would locate the same for ' ADHD, autism and dyslexia.'
Sick NZ hit yet another recent low with this headline.
' Number of antidepressants dispensed to children and teens jumps 53 per cent in five years '
Obviously these children would have some serious personal intensities in their Astrological charts. Maybe some are eligible for the Moon-Neptune Society ?
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THE PSYCHIC INSPECTOR
June 12
Inspector is the total antithesis of the New World Order slave.
Inspector doesn't read or listen to the news. He doesn't get angry about football matches, refuses to worship any national cry babies, and fears nothing. With no mortgage, landlord, employer or dependents, Inspector can easily distance himself from negative influences in order to minimise idiot contact. Consequently, like many animals and many less humans, Inspector has psychic powers.
Inspector is a neutered male kitten, 4 years old, who boards at my place with another wild one, Daisy, some 6 months younger. Inspector was inquisitive from day one, a man of peace and wisdom, who loves sprawling on the floor surrounded by books. He dreams of emulating his learned landlord.
Daisy is a con woman-psychopath, who bullies and fights and only comes inside for meals, or the couch on rainy, windy days. She has no psychic sense whatsoever.
Early evening recently there was major panic in the neighbourhood. ' Mini ' hadn't been seen for several hours ! And it's almost dinner time.
Mini is an 8 months-old neutered male kitten over the fence, who roams and roves, usually between his owner's place and the Indian couple's next door. After a serious meeting it was decreed that roving Mini must have found a peaceful spot. Like one morning, when I was unloading groceries and stuff, with Dragon blasting out ' April Sun ' on the car stereo.
Next load and who's sprawled on the dashboard, with an ear beside the speaker ? Mini. With one of his 3 common-law wives, Saffron sitting in the back seat. No plans to move until Marc Hunter had finished his tune.
Come the darkness and Inspector makes a very rare appearance at Mini's owner's place. A mew or 2, to get attention, and he retreats to sit on a board, gazing at the concrete wall. ' It was really strange, ' said the owner. ' He reminded me of a Monk, like he was meditating. '
Something moved an Indian neighbour to join the discussion and further her concerns about Mini. Then Ms Simal, gasped. She would happen to be staring at the same small hole in the concrete wall as Inspector, and ' There's Mini ! '
A Royal Commission of Inquiry was completed in 5 minutes. It was decided that roving Mini had found a niche in the garage when the landlord had been, and remained there when the front door was locked. And Mini is too much of a lout to have any psychic ability and know when the landlord was leaving.
Inspector on the other hand, had a vision. From his meditating spot between Chinese legend Jung Chang's WILD SWANS and the memoirs of late racing journalist Alf Kneebone, he sensed that the crazy young bugger from next door was in danger !
So Inspector, the gifted psychic, jumped over the fence to try and alert Mini's owner.
A role model for all humans. Who could start by distancing themselves from negative influences in order to minimise idiot contact....
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BIRTHDAYS
June 11
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Ray Warren 80 David Cormie 66 Tom Waterhouse 41 Shane Phillips 28
Monday: Earl Harrison 71 Steve Cole 59 Wayne Foote 57 Josh Julius 34
Tuesday: Ray Gavin 81 Paul Thistoll 68 Peter Scudamore 65 Rayna Johansson 45
Wednesday: Peter Svendsen 61 Toni Croon 56 Kylie Geran 52
Thursday: Len Stewart 91 Les Critoph 73 Julie Archer 56 Peter Cunningham 42 Corey Brown 47 Mark Pegus 45 Lisa Whelan 37 Troy Harris 35
Friday: Peter Williams 69
Saturday: Martin Park 66 Hadley Searle 42
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MICHAEL WOOD'S ' CHAOS AND REVERSALS '
June 9
The Zodiac's version of the ram raider has been having fun this year.
So many victims of Uranus attacks on various positions and causing heaps of disruption. Notably for the NRL's Nathan Cleary, Brandon Smith and Anthony Griffin; also rugby's Roger Tuivasa-Sheck; pollies Andrew Little, Nanaia Mahuta, Grant Robertson and Vladimir Putin; And the Broil family's King Charlie and Prince Harry !
Many more in the 2nd sentence, from last November's Annual Prophesies:
' Much improvement and advancement for May 19,20,21 borns from Pluto-Sun trine. Chaos and reversals for May 10,11,12,13 persons from Uranus over the Sun.'
Which includes this joker !
Michael Wood ( b 10.5.1980 ) has been stood down as Transport Minister by Prime Minister Chris Hipkins today over failing to properly disclose shares owned in Auckland Airport.
In a statement, Hipkins said he had spoken to Wood this morning and advised Wood that he would be stood down from the transport portfolio “while any remaining issues around his conflicts are appropriately resolved”.
41.5 years of Astrological study has convinced me that our lives are planned. There is no use stressing, it's all been sorted.
Like mad dog Uranus, the bringer of chaos and confusion. He continues his Tour de Taurus and in 2024 shall be moving between 23,24,25 and 26 degrees.
Causing disruption to any position in those degrees of Taurus. And those with May 14, 15,16,17 birthdays. And so on.
The Astrological message: Use it or lose it.
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NATHAN CLEARY'S ' SIGNIFICANT REVERSALS '
June 7
NZ's ' mental health crisis ' has long been a source of great amusement.
The mirth went to another level with last week's revelation that the number of anti-depressants dispensed to children and teens had jumped 53 per cent in five years !
Proving yet again that the gumboot mob and their ' counsellors ' are a failure. Of course the Golden Generation ( 1938-58 ) had ' parents ' in lieu of ' counsellors.'
The gumboot mob would probably recommend this joker for a therapy session !
' Panthers halfback Nathan Cleary is gutted and set to miss the remainder of the 2023 Ampol State of Origin series after picking up a hamstring injury in his side's win over the Dragons on Sunday night.
Penrith confirmed on Monday that the Blues star would be sidelined for up to six weeks, ruling him out for selection for the remaining two Origin fixtures.'
No counselling necessary. Just some cogitation and consideration of the stunner in last November's Annual Prophecies !
' Cleary, Nathan:
NRL star buzzing in April from Uranus positivity but Uranus-Sun negativity brings significant reversals around June and Oct.'
Taking the 2022 Annual Prophecies record so far to 24--1 and a 96% success rate.
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PATEMAN'S ' VERY SLOW AUTUMN '
June 5
Astrology is amazing.
It encourages corner-cutting and beating the system. And it's the only thing that's getting anything right at the moment !
It fits everybody. Like the King of England, a young Indian lady with relationship dilemmas, the alcohol pusher with mental health issues or Australia's greatest-ever jumps jockey are all on the same page. The latest stunner:
' Champion jumps jockey Steven Pateman and wife Jess have accepted an 11-month disqualification for a historic cobalt offence.
The "shattered" Patemans issued a statement on Friday following a decision by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) to impose the disqualification, from June 9.
Pateman and Jessica Pateman were charged by Racing Victoria in 2017 after a pre-race urine test on the horse Sir Walter Scott indicated an excessive amount of cobalt.'
Jockey Pateman, with 436 winners in his CV, hasn't been a dominant force this year and his training operation has had more than 30 successive losers since the last win in March. All sorted in last November's Annual Prophecies:
' Pateman, Steve:
A very slow autumn for the champion jumps rider with Pluto-Mercury complications in April and May. More frustrations in 024 with Pluto attacking Mars as well.'
Everybody gets smacked over by Pluto. The King of England is getting his Moon hammered at the moment, whence all the heat in the ' broil ' family. The key is being prepared....
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BIRTHDAYS
June 4
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Mike Brown 64 Christophe Soumillon 42
Monday: Simon Ryan 50 Darren Danis 31 JD and Will Hayes 28
Tuesday: Paul Shailer 44
Wednesday: Ron Taylor 82 Neil Coulbeck 72 Rick Cassidy 63 Tom Ryan 39
Thursday: Paddy Busuttin 69 Aaron Tata 52 Dwayne Dunn 50
Friday: Donna Chisholm 66 Megan Liefting 48 Richard O'Donoghue 25
Saturday: Mike McCann 77 Denise Howell 67 Maurice Logue 61
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SIR JOHN KIRWAN'S LATEST PINNACLE
June 2
There was great elation in the offices of Kirwanking Ltd when the news broke:
' Number of antidepressants dispensed to children and teens jumps 53 per cent in five years '
Co-director Sir Johnny Wino cracked open a bottle of his own Prosecco JK14 creation to celebrate. And heaped praise on his partner in the depression-promotion business, medication Mikey King.
' You're a fine man, Mikey,' muttered Johnny. ' Visiting all those schools has been the key, all the kids learning how depressed they're supposed to be.'
Mikey was humble, thanking Johnny and blessed his own good fortune: ' I'm lucky to have this position after my career as a comedian failed. But you've played a major part in getting their parents into drinking your wine, because the more pissed the parents are, the more confused the kids will be.'
' I've been very fortunate, too, ' mumbled Johnny. ' Gaining my knighthood in 2012 for services to rugby and mental health was important. Hopefully they see me as a nice man who cares about everyone's mental health and it should be natural for them all to start drinking my wine.'
( Even if a 2010 study published in The Lancet ranked alcohol as the most dangerous drug in the United Kingdom, surpassing heroin, crack cocaine, and marijuana. That study drew widespread media attention, appearing in outlets like the Washington Post, the Guardian, the New Republic, and at Vox.)
Then an office junior rushed in with a text from Mr Pfizer to medication Mikey: ' Awesome work bro', keep those stats up and make sure everyone's buying my medications.'
THE EXTREMES
Back on May 29 we published a birthdate register and explained how easy it can be to identify certain types of ' depression.'
We listed the peak dates of Mars and Pluto clashes between 1960 and 2020 that cause so many psychological problems. i.e that very destructive Pluto-Mars union was at peak on December 10, 1964. Humans born a week either side would be subject to the drastic life changes---like Johnny Wino Kirwan ( Dec 16 ), nomadic NRL former coach Matt Elliott ( Dec 8 ) and the very disgraced ex-league player Brent Todd ( Dec 5 ). ' October 30 ' in the 1968 list includes another NZ legend of mental illness, Cameron ' Whaleoil ' Slater.
It's only natural that there shall be extremes of behaviour with such restrictions on positive energy. It explains why J Kirwan could go from being one of the world's best rugby wingers to one of the worst coaches. From being a ' mental health advocate ' to an alcohol pusher.
This classic depression aspect has been very common in the entertainment industry, courtesy of the massive highs, lows and drastic changes the Mars-Pluto union supervises---Like George Michael, Brian Wilson, Kevin Spacey, Paul McCartney, Natalie Wood, Ringo Starr, Teri Hatcher, Anna Paquin, Dianna Rigg, Michelle Phillips, Lindsey Buckingham, Donovan Leitch, Meatloaf and Samantha Markle.
The May 29 register of Mars-Pluto victims also includes the NZ ' sex addict ' entertainer currently facing a total of 25 charges, including rape, indecent assault, sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection, assault with intent to commit sexual violation, attempted sexual violation, indecent assault and attempting to pervert justice. He also faces drug charges.
This nasty human has got destructive Pluto and energetic Mars dangerously locked together in Libra at 2 degrees, providing him with an even more fragile ego than Sir Johnny alcohol pusher. And a very restricted future....
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THERE'S HOPE FOR EDDIE JONES !
September 27
Nothing can match this amazing, ancient science, so favourably recommended by the father of modern medicine, Hippocrates ( c. 460 – c. 370 BC. )
Especially when it comes to knowing when the unproductive phases shall end. Consider a couple of NRL personnel who appeared in the November 2021 Annual Prophecies:
Walters, Kevin:
More problems for the NRL coach with Uranus-Mercury and Pluto Node complications. June particularly horrific, also Oct.
Walsh, Reece:
Many upsets for NRL young gun with Pluto attacking his Mars. Feb, June, Dec notable.
Kev's Brisbane Broncos finished 9th in 2022, and Walshy had major relationship break-ups with his missus and the NZ Warriors. Then Pluto and Uranus stopped wreaking their havoc before the 2023 season began. Now R Walsh is one of the superstars in K Walters' team and they're both heading for Sunday's Grand Final.
Down on September 19 we were considering ' million-to-one Eddie ' Jones after his Wallabies got shocked out by Fiji. Last Monday morning he was front page again !
The Wallabies were all but knocked out of the Rugby World Cup this morning following a 40-6 defeat to Wales - which looks set to be the first time they’ll fail to make the quarter-final stage at the tournament. Eddie Jones’ side were completely outclassed to be handed their biggest loss at a World Cup.
You could imagine how Eddie Jones is feeling at the moment. In the analysis on September 19, it's rather coincidental that all the Neptune-Jupiter stress supervised his dumping from the England coaching job. And Neptune-Node problems with his Australian job at the moment, but all those shall be gone come next January ! And the erratic genius Uranus takes over.
Eddie's Node ( Virgo 25 ) is getting the harassment from confusing Neptune ( Pisces 25 ) at present. Virgo's great mate Taurus currently has erratic genius Uranus as a house guest. With awesome Uranus-Node phases filling E Jones with positivity from Taurus 25 around June and November next year, and April in 2025. Then speedy Uranus zooms into Gemini, whose buddy Aquarius has the Sun of Eddie Jones as a tenant, somewhere between 8.40 and 9.40 degrees !
Meaning that Eddie's gonna benefit extremely from the powerful Uranus-Sun trine between July 2027 and May 2028. October 2027 is a very fortunate month for E Jones. And also when the Rugby World Cup is going full bore in his native land !
The chances of E Jones getting retained by Aussie for the next 4 years would be about a milllion to one as well. But it doesn't matter what Eddie Jones is doing in 2027, he's gonna be a lot happier than now. And whatever team he is coaching will do a lot better than expected.
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WARRIORS SWEET FOR 2025-26
September 25
The rare lateness of a very regular Laos lady was noted by a Monk at the Temple lunch yesterday.
I told the Monk that ' Karma Lady ' had stayed up late to watch the NZ Warriors' game, and she was so devastated by the result that she was unable to sleep. For several seconds he seemed to believe me. Of course Buddhist beauties have no interest in such an aggressive activity, the lateness was simply a daylight-saving error, and soon after the Monk was full of laughter.
While many fans were very devastated after the Wahs got battered 42-12 by the Broncos in Saturday night's semi-final. But they surprised everybody in 2023, and did manage to win their first, and only, play-offs game in 12 years.
They made the top 4, and I had already labelled them for much bigger things in 2025 and 2026.Courtesy of current assistant coach Stacey Jones benefiting from awesome Pluto trines in those years. The little legend has experienced 4 Pluto-trine years in his head-coach life and won 3 premierships---with NZ Warriors Juniors, and Point Chevalier Pirates twice, in the Auckland competition.
The owner Mark Robinson is to be blessed with an array of amazing progressions through 2025 and 26. Positive activity in the several months preceding July and September of 2025, with November a time of great achievement. 2026 has major highs for Robbo approaching April and August, also January 2027.
Returning superstar Roger Tuivasa-Sheck's disappointing 2023 in rugby was predicted. And it has been previously noted that R T S has an amazing 2026 on the horizon, when big hitters Pluto and Uranus are both positively trining his Jupiter position !
Like all with a January 17 birthday, coach Andrew Webster shall benefit from an awesome Uranus-Sun trine in 2024. No time known, after a request to the media person, so I shall have to visit him at training, and re-enact a day there in late March, 2009.
When the Warriors were 2-2 and top of the ladder. I introduced myself to then coach Ivan Cleary, explained the purpose and that the later he was born, the better it was for 2011.
' 11 p.m ' was the reply, with confirmation that there was no need to confirm it further, but I did detect a WTF ? from Ivan about waiting 2 more years. Perfect ! said the Sorcerer later, because the late birth time confirmed that I Cleary would be benefiting from an awesome Pluto-Moon trine in 2011 !
Then it all went wrong in 2009. Late August, the Warriors are struggling in 14th place and Sir Mad Butcher hauls me onto the podium in his lounge at Mt Smart and wants to know how the stars are for their last home game. I was more interested in the new season, so I suggested to Mad that he ' stop pulling that thing down there ' and pull some strings at the Warriors ! So they've got John Ackland as head coach and Stacey Jones his assistant, because they had awesome Pluto trines in the next 2 years, insisting that present coach Ivan Cleary to be kept on for 2011 with his Pluto buzz as well !
Ackland went from Cleary's assistant to sole charge of the Juniors. Player Jones was released and took up a coaching position with Pt Chevalier Pirates in the Auckland 3rd division. Ackland's Juniors won their NRL Grand Finals for a club first in 2010, and 2011. Jones' Pirates won the 3rd and 2nd division premierships in consecutive years. And Cleary's top side made the 2011 Grand Final !
Since then ? Twice into the final 8, for the one win. But a Golden era is about to begin, as long as they retain the above-mentioned. Even without a birth time, coach Webster still has Uranus trining, and Neptune sextiling, his Venus very positively between May 026 and April 027. Another coaching staffer Richard Agar is of January 20 arrival, so he gets his awesome Uranus-Sun trine in 2025.
At this stage it's looking like Grand Final appearances in 2025 and 2026 at least.
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BIRTHDAYS
September 24
Birthdays of notable racing people this week
Sunday: Peter Macken 85 George Merkulov 81 Jim Waterson 73 Raymond Connors 46 John Allen 39 Monday: Doug Messingham 78 Fabian Alesci 49 Paul Gallagher 37 Tuesday: Shane Dye 57 Sean Cameron 56 Blake Shinn 36 Wednesday: Alan Johnson 77 Craig Carmody 56 Brendan McCullum 42 Ben Ropiha 38 Thursday: Shane Scriven 58 Tracey Bliss and Sharlene Cullen 51 Friday : John O'Shea 54 Michelle Payne 38 Saturday: Gordon Spinks 76 Matthew Enright 54 Tony Veitch 50 Aaron Taylor 47 Joao Moreira 39 |
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LORDE'S ' MENTAL PROBLEMS ' OF ' AUG '
September 23
Lorde has given her fans a bittersweet new update in her latest newsletter.
Explaining her heartbreak, Lorde writes: “It’s different but the same. I ache all the time, I forget why and then remember. I’m not trying to hide from the pain, I understand now that pain isn’t something to hide from, that there’s actually great beauty in moving with it. But sometimes I’m sick of being with myself.”
She adds that she has tried to ease the pain and “manipulate the endorphins” by eating chocolate, however it appears to have had the opposite effect as the Grammy winner says “my body is really inflamed”.
“My gut isn’t working properly, my skin is worse than ever, I’ve gotten sick half a dozen times. I realised earlier this year that listening to my body is hard for me, it’s something I never really learned how to do.” The star goes on to say she has stopped taking the “little yellow pill” that she has taken each morning since she was 15. While she doesn’t confirm what she is referring to, it may be a reference to a prescription antidepressant.
Of course we are not surprised, after the appearance in last November's Annual Prophecies !
' Lorde:
Serious mental problems from Mars-Saturn attack Aug. Needs monitoring in April, and Jan 024 as well.'
Remembering that Lorde has been diagnosed with a serious Mars-Pluto negative in her natal chart. So often possessed by those with anger management and substance abuse issues, putting her in esteemed company. Others born with the Mars-Pluto energy block include Muhammed Ali, Oprah Winfrey, John McEnroe, Lisa-Marie Presley and legendary sex offenders Harvey Weinstein, Woody Allen and Roman Polanski. Plenty of alcoholics, and notable Australians Chopper Read and Greg Hall.
And an ex-jockey mate, discharged from hospital after ticker problems with ' Give up drinking and smoking ' from the doctor. Half an hour later he was in the pub.
Rather ironically, progressed Mars and Pluto are currently at war in the NZ chart until December, creating more angries than ever. But as we know so well, only Astrology gives real hope and the tide is turning for aching Lorde.
She'll be bouncing back in 2024, as the beneficiary of awesome Uranus trines to her Moon and Midheaven point. Then back in the doldrums again in 2026, though, with more major aches from Uranus assaulting her Mars.
' A physician without a knowledge of Astrology has no right to call himself a physician.' -- Hippocrates
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DUNCAN GARNER v THE MONK
September 21
Last Sunday at Temple lunch the head Buddhist Monk for NZ sought a favour from ' Lung Don.'
This Thailand-born gentleman wanted someone to support applications for 2 fellow Monks to extend their time in New Zealand.
Monks are very humble people, who own nothing and practice celibacy and temperance. They pray, chant and bless people. The community provides their daily meal, lunch at 11 a.m. They avoid vanity and competitiveness, and the dearth of stress from employers, landlords and families allows them to make good judgements.
I've often compared the Monks' lifestyle to that of my pet kittens, so it's natural for them to gain the psychic power and 6th sense of cats, dogs, horses etc and some humans.
Naturally there was a ' yes ' to the request, and I replied that I would state that these men had all the right attributes to be a Kiwi male. They love the All Blacks and watch every Warriors game and prefer going to the pub to argue about sport than spending time with the wife and kids, wherever they may be.
' Perfect ! ' declared the Master. Knowing that I would go home and email him proper references, using words like ' honest, reliable, and of fine principles.' Then have another read of an article on the fellow who inspired my statement at the Temple.
A Monk equivalent of New Zealand, a radio ' editor-in-chief ' with thousands of adoring fans and important enough recently to be the NZ Herald's lead story !
' Duncan Garner: Why I refuse to vote in a general election '
The ' master ' to thousands is aged 49 , and has never lived abroad, spending nearly 30 years wallowing in the NZ media industry. He's got 4 kids to 3 different women and isn't renowned for being a devoted father. Just recently ' Dunga ' was living with his mother, and in his car.
Remembering that Dunga's role is to make waves and controversy, angries and argument. The Monk is happiest when there is peace, co-operation and healthy food.
Buddhists often mock the ' Farang culture, ' even without knowing about the hero-worshipping of things like Garner, Hosking, Holmes, Feeney or the ' Topper twins, ' Veitch and Devlin, etc ! ' You guys don't look after your old people, ' noted a Laotian plasterer.
' We do so ! We dump them in rest homes ' was the reply. Whereas the Buddhists love to have as many generations at the Temple as possible. Like a great-grandmother named Cai, who doesn't speak a word of English but always greets me with a big grin. Remembering her learning, through an interpreting daughter, that Kai is the Maori word for food.
Many are the residents in the Chocolate Triangle region with little or no English. Like the waitress at Yum Cha lunch one day, when I asked my Chinese companions if they could ask her for the recipe of the scrumptious Turnip cake I had just tasted. In return, I would teach her English.
After some discussion, the reply was: ' She doesn't want to learn English but she will give us the turnip cake recipe.'
They live with Chinese/Korean/Cambodian/Vietnamese/Indian/Thai/Laotian etc people, work, shop and socialise with them. No reason to stray from their wonderful, superior cultures. Plus English is such a difficult language.
And the chances of being poisoned by things like Garner, Hosking, Feeney or the Topper twins etc are very slim if you don't understand a word of English !
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' MILLION TO ONE EDDIE '
September 19
Every man and his blog is having a wank about Australian rugby's first beating by Fiji in 69 years.
Bloggers just grizzle and moan about what happened. Astrologer's use facts, and it is fact that Australia were ' Donalded ' for the 2023 RWC the minute they hired Eddie Jones. Obviously with a birth time for Eddie and the Fijian coach this great upset could have been forecast.
With a recent reminder here on July 31 last:
' Footnote: Australia is a million to one with Donbet, and drifting for the RWC after this epic in the November 2021 Annual Prophecies:
' Jones, Eddie:
Rugby coach hampered by Neptune-Jupiter complications in April, Aug and Feb 023. With Neptune-Node complications in Oct 023 as well. ' '
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BAR-BRAWL CLOBBER AND THE SWABBER
September 16
NZ's very dysfunctional Racing Integrity Board had to prosecute one of their own recently.
A night on the booze turned ugly for swabbing steward Nicole Lloyd:
1.2 Information A15764 Alleges that; On the 12th of August 2023, at the Racecourse Hotel, Riccarton, Nicole Lloyd, Class B Trainer, did misconduct herself by assaulting Harness Trainers, Cheree Wigg and Alan Edge. This behaviour being in breach of Rule 340 and subject to the general penalties set down in 803(1) of the Rules of Racing.
Ms Lloyd frankly admitted the breach and has an outstanding record in regard to any charges in a racing context over a period of 19 years. A fine of $900 was imposed, and as a result of the charge, Ms Lloyd has resigned from her position of a swabbing steward, which will cause a level of financial distress.
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BIRTHDAYS
September 17
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: John O'Connor 83 John Meagher 75 Jonathan Riddell 45
Monday: Danny Frye 60 Ryan Moore 40
Tuesday: Mel Schumacher 86 Rodney Heaslip 75 Finbarr Leahy 51 Shane Udy 50 Chad Northcott 49
Wednesday: Margaret McDonald 74 Allan Smith 62 Andrea Leek 51 Vinnie Colgan and Mark Sweeney 48 Mitchell Beer 35 Jasmine Fawcett 30
Thursday: Grant Tucker 62 Mark Chittick 53
Friday: Helen Page 71 Graeme Swann 68 Susie Sargent 61 Malcolm Pay 59 Darian Gedge 52
Saturday: Brett Prebble 46 Ryan Hurdle 29
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' THEY CAN BULLY AND CONTROL HUMANS, BUT NOT THE PLANETS.'
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THE FORTUNATE RACING PEOPLE
September 16
The best things in life are Pluto trines.
That's when the planet of revolution is assisting a position 120 degrees away. Like from 2024, for 20 years, Pluto shall be in Aquarius and helping the positions of his good friends Libra and Gemini. With milder assistance to Aries and Sagittarius from 60 degree sextiles.
I've found these Pluto trines very helpful when starting a new business, gaining National recognition or setting World records. And when reassuring clients that there is light at the end of the dark tunnel. One favourite:
On Sunday, September 11, 2006 I phoned 49 year-old Wanganui-based freezing worker and horse racing enthusiast Alexander Fieldes and told him I wanted to swap places with him for 2 years, because of the awesome Pluto-Moon trine he would be experiencing. Including some fame or achievement.
“ So what’s in it for me if I suddenly become Don Murray ? ” Alexander asked.
For starters, I explained, tonight he would be the guest of 4 young black African ladies at the Ethiopian New Year’s celebrations in a hall in New Lynn. “ Pass ” was the reply.
Along came Capecover, part-owned and trained by A R A Fieldes. 6 weeks after the Ethiopian festivities he won the 2nd of his 16 races, and would amass over $1 million in prizemoney. There were some big wins in Australia and the continued success had A Fieldes swapping his white freezing worker gumboots for Gucci in the mounting yard at the 2009 Melbourne Cup when Capecover made the final field.
There are zillions of Pluto stories. Like telling rugby league player Tony Tatupu about his upcoming elevations for 1995 and 96. His Auckland Warriors contract increased by 600% with Super League, he represented NZ and Western Samoa, and ‘ Taps ’ became a father under the awesome Pluto-Sun trine.
A fellow extra in the rugby movie Skin'n'Bone in 2003 named Nick got alerted to his majors the following year. Like an awesome Pluto-Sun trine that might bring him some bigger movie roles ? Instead, as ' Nick Evans ' this guy became an All Black in 2004 !
Even amidst the Covid catastrophes, 2 separate clients were given the green light and launched successful business ventures. Both, a 21 year-old Chinese girl, and a 41 year-old Indian with his wife, found good reason to come around and tell me all about it .
We know all about NZ's upcoming, horrific 2023-24 summer. We also know that Pluto and his colleagues keep operating, with their usual positives and negatives. With some very positive improvement for the following horse racing personnel in 2024:
Horse trainers Stephen Autridge, Mark Brooks, Sean and Emma Clotworthy, Raymond Connors, Grant Cooksley, Ken Harrison, Todd Mitchell, Tarissa McDonald, Mark Oulaghan, Aaron Tata, Nigel and Lee Tiley, John Wheeler, Karen Zimmerman, Reece Cole and his jockey partner Emily Farr.
Beneficiaries of awesome Pluto trines over the Tasman next year include gun trainer Peter Moody and lesser lights Tony Parker and Catherine Hutchinson. And all persons with May 20,21,22 and September 22,23,24 birthdays shall be receiving the Pluto-Sun advancement in 2024.
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TRUTH v NZ SKEPTICS
September 14
This predicted, upcoming recession is starting to get brutal.
Much more to come. For many losers, ' Good fucking job ! ' is the only verdict possible. Because
“ One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. ”
― C.S. Lewis, Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
And you know all about facts, don't you NZ ? Astrological facts, like those horse racing certainties going back 33 years, the 18 years of Newstalk ZB shows with Murray Deaker ONZM, the sensational All Black prophecies and Deaker's raving about the great science etc.
A few months back I noticed the NZ Skeptics mob attempting to poison the nation with their negativity. I went to their Facebook page and showed them the G.O.A.T prophecy, that prediction on July 4, 2012 about the horse racing certainty predicted for November 7, 2017 that produced a $9.80 win dividend.
Nobody, anywhere, could argue about that, as proof of forces above beyond human control. This epic prophecy even moved a couple of Skeptic members to wonder if ' Craig ' might give consideration. No, Craig the president stuck to his rules about completing the proper application form to gain their approval.
So I would have to complete the application for the November 2017 epic ? And those other, successful, long-range predictions on horse trainers Stephen Autridge, Kenny Rae, Roger James and jumps jockeys Tommy Hazlett, Chris Allen and Raymond Connors ? As well as the ' Martin Crowe day ' and the 'Jarrod McCracken night ' or the ' 2 years of great destruction for Australia ' forecast before Covid struck in 2020 ? And the Wayne Bennett 1997 classic or the 2007 Rugby World Cup phenomenon ?
It was getting a bit embarrassing for Craig the president, so I got a warning:
NZ Skeptics Inc. is responding to a comment you made on their Page. View comment.
' Please stop spamming our posts with your irrelevant links. If you don't stop, we will have no option but to block you from our page. -- Craig '
' No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.-- Plato '
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PLUTO v ISRAEL ADESANYA
September 12
UFC 293: Israel Adesanya loses title in massive upset to American Sean Strickland in Sydney
said the headline. The Don Murray Astrologer Annual Prophecies of November 26, 2022 said:
' Adesanya, Israel:
Major off-year for the fighter with Pluto-Sun and Uranus-Mars mayhem. Feb, June, July, Oct, Dec his times to be resting. '
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THE FRANK ENDACOTT STORY
September 11
We're always laughing here at the modern-day media's role models and influencers.
They are New World Order-compatible and some are very disgusting. It's like you've gotta be a runaway father to qualify, preferably with serious alcohol or substance abuse issues, with mental illness issues another tick earner.
Every so often I read the autobiography of a great man named Frank Endacott ONZM, as a reminder of the wonderful fathers some generations grew up with.
' Frank Endacott was the longest serving, and most successful, Kiwis rugby league coach, and only the second New Zealander after Graham Lowe to have coached at international level as well as in the Australian and British professional competitions.'
Frank's first home was a tent behind his grandparents' house in Christchurch, for his Australian-born dad,mum and Frank. Later a state house. Frank married Joan, aged 20, a month before his 18th birthday, claiming " I had one shilling in the bank. " Joan's parents died within a couple of years of each other, so Frank and Joan raised Joan's 5 younger siblings, as well as their own 4 little boys.
Frank worked lots of overtime in the printing industry, and played rugby league as well. He coached at club level, then the Canterbury reps and the national team. Then coaching the Auckland Warriors reserve team and later the top side .
Plenty of reminders in the great read of the jealousy, dirty politics and general nastiness of media scabs, CEOs and board members. Dubbed ' Happy Frank ' by a sportswriter, F Endacott could piss people off because he was so popular and honest, and lived on his father's philosophy of greeting people warmly with a smile on the face.
With a great sense of humour. There was one of those legendary ' on tour ' pranks when a condom containing condensed milk was put in a certain player's bed. To management the disappointed victim went.Coach Endacott dipped his finger in the condom, tasted the contents then claimed it wasn't his !
There was an obnoxious league writer in the 1990s named Jim Marr, noted for his misquoting. Which he did with F Endacott, then a few weeks later ambled up to him at a match with a question. A heated argument followed, with Frank taking off his jacket and preparing to use Marr's bright red face for punching practice. 2 seconds later a TV camera arrived, Frank calmed down and later joked about them turning up too early and missing the scoop of the year.
I was party to some of Frank's minor violence in Townsville on a Saturday morning in July 1995. Game day for the Auckland Warriors, and I'm at the team's hotel to collect my stand tickets from head trainer Bob Lannigan, and settle a bet with the iconic supporter named Peter ' the Mad Butcher ' Leitch. Earlier in the week ' Mad ' had been stunned by my plans to hitchhike the 345 kms from Cairns to Townsville, and wagered a beer on me managing to get to Townsville alive.
Mad started squealing about 9 a.m being too early for a beer. Second-rower Steve Kearney put him in a headlock and Frank beat Mad with a rolled up newspaper until settlement of ' an orange juice and beef sandwich ? ' in lieu of the beer was agreed. Frank liked a flutter on the horses and told Mad how stupid the bet was--- if the hitchhiker did get murdered, as Mad had originally considered, how would he be able to buy Mad his beer ?
Frank's reserve team and the premier side both won their games that night against the North Queensland Cowboys and there was lots of happiness. More laughter in the early hours of Sunday, when Frank and Bob Lannigan strolled around a corner into the main street of Townsville, to see a bunch of local Maori and myself in our Warriors' jerseys performing the team haka.
12 months later Frank would knock me down a few pegs. After breakfast at the team hotel on match morning of the Gold Coast game. I'm discussing horse racing with several of the team including 32 year-old utility Phil Blake, playing for his 8th club at premier level. Then job changes, and I wondered about claiming a world record with 33 employers in 42 years of life ?
' You are nowhere near it , ' interjected Frank, who then told of his own father's 112 jobs in NZ and the outback of Australia.
F Endacott's sacking as Auckland Warriors' coach in 1999 was very controversial. He even had a lot of difficulty getting his last pay, with a final assurance from the idiotic C E O that the cheque would be delivered to his house at 7 p.m. It arrived, around 11 p.m, handed to Frank by a turban-wearing taxi driver. Just the cheque, no envelope !
The role model scene has changed dramatically since the television era. You laugh at the masses who have worshipped things like the departeds Paul Holmes and Charlotte Dawson, or Paul Henry, Duncan Garner, Martin Devlin,Mike King, Tony Veitch and Jayjay Feeney etc.
But there's no space in the media for the great man from Christchurch who's been married for just over 57 years. And has more than ' one shilling in the bank ' now.
BEING FRANK. The Frank Endacott story, with John Coffey.
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BIRTHDAYS
September 10
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Bob Vance 64 Dianne Trillo 58 Adam Trinder 44 Arron Mitchell 27
Monday: Gavan Duffy 63 Danny Bruhn 50 Tuesday: Peter Shepherd 54 Wednesday: Jason Biddulph 52 Rahul Beeharry 32 Thursday: Lance Douglas 65 Friday: John Revell 88 Saturday: Greg Sorich 70 David Tootell 62 Kelvin Tyler 58 Aaron Purcell 46 |
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POINTING THE BONE AT COWARDS
With the big " crash " forecast in the Annual Prophesies, www.donmurrayastrologer.com on November 26, 2013:
“ Wood, Susan:
Veteran broadcaster facing two years of difficult career change as Pluto and Uranus assail Mercury.”
Big “ crash ” it was, when Wood tumbled down the stairs during a wine drinking session 2 months later, receiving brain damage severe enough to have her off work for over a year. It could be argued that Wood’s brain was severely damaged when she was bagging a subject of which she had absolutely no knowledge many years earlier.
DIRTY OLD HOLMO
Broadcasting king Paul Holmes was another who despised Astrology. With Pluto assaulting his Moon in 2007, major emotional problems and home and family issues for him were widely predicted. How embarrassing for his adoptive daughter to hit the mid-year headlines---as NZ's most famous teenage P addict !
Poor Holmes arrived for his Newstalk ZB breakfast show on Monday, October 8, 2007 and grimaced at his list of interview subjects. Including that bloody Astrologer ! Because he had forecast the All Black's dramatic exit from the Rugby World Cup yesterday, nearly 4 years ago, on this very same station !
Holmes wanted to keep the interview short but I had a nice long speech prepared, harking back nearly 4 years, and Holmes was getting all agitated and I kept veering off on tangents and he was getting very angry. Even tried telling lies about Astrological events in his past !
ME ME ME MIKEY
Failed comedian-turned ' mental health advocate ' Mike King got unbelievably shitty when Astrological assistance was offered to depression sufferers. Obviously scared of what the 20-minutes enlightenment would reveal, but that's becoming normal for audience cravers
Unlike a 26 year-old Asian lady, who last weekend requested an enlightenment for her older sister in Canada. Speechless she was, for 8 or 9 minutes during the character analysis, before declaring ' That is so my sister ! ' She had just learned about the aspects for black sheep of the family, self-indulgence and hating restraint etc.
The Asian lady had genuine concern. Mikey didn't. He just wanted to be in the public eye, so the bone had to be pointed to teach him a lesson. He had shunned the one-on-one enlightenment, so there was some public advice in the November 2018 Annual Prophesies !
' King, Mike:
Major off-year for depression " expert " with Pluto-Sun and Saturn-Mercury catastrophes. Jan, Feb, June, July, Nov, Dec crucial, then close relationship issues from Uranus-Venus mayhem in 2020.'
That " major off-year " included a mental breakdown, King's gumboot mob running out of money and a motorbike crash when he suffered 9 broken ribs, broke his collarbone and punctured a lung !
SNOTTY-NOSED JANE
Way back in 2008 there was a phone call to Herald veteran Jane Phare. She'd started there in 1976, and did try to be a freelancer. That didn't last long and Phare was soon back with granny Herald, and with no interest in real Astrology or its inclusion in her publication.
She did offer her birth date on request, the ephemeris book was consulted and Phare was warned of a major life change ' in a couple of years time.' ( When revolutionary Pluto was over her Venus position in conservative Capricorn.)
In ' a couple of years time ' Phare had breast cancer and one of them was removed ! I contacted her, still at the Herald after nearly 45 years, in June 2022 for a review, and the response was amazing:
' As for predicting "life changing" events, breast cancer to me was an illness for which i was treated. It was not life changing.
Life changing for me was the birth of my son, finally, 17 years ago. You did not predict that.'
No I didn't. Because I didn't even know his mother's birthdate then. Soon afterwards snotty-nosed Jane was slotted in for a debut in the November 2023 Annuals:
' Phare, Jane:
Massive personal restructuring for the lifer journo from Pluto attacking her Mars. Feb, June and Jan 025 crucial.'
A few weeks ago this was news:
NZME newsroom overhaul: NZ Herald staff presented with new digital/print proposal, senior roles impacted. A week later NZME announced a 76% drop in profits.
Plenty of other media organisations are struggling as well, and there will be a lot more ' massive personal restructuring ' in the dirtiest industry of all. Media scabs hate to retire, because their byline-column-show is more important than anything else. Suddenly they are nobody.
Smart people can prepare for those major reversals. Forewarned is forearmed in our language.
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NZ RACING'S LATEST COVER UP
September 7
The ink was barely dry after yesterday's mockery of the once noble racing industry when news of another major scandal broke.
Yet another cover up involving a high-profile Matamata trainer, in respect of illegal raceday treatment. He instructed a staff member to inject a certain horse illegally, and it still raced.
The hearing was scheduled for August 31. Maybe it's gone to that special rubbish dump for Matamata matters. Like the matters of the the Moroney gang bashings and the Moroney meth scandals, or the 15 year-old girl epics from the Te Akau regime. Or the future hall of famer who donated $15K to a trust fund for a 14 year-old pack-rape victim to protect his son's arse. Same fellow viciously insulted a stipendiary steward outside the Rotorua judicial room about 40 years ago but that disappeared as well.
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NRLW v THOROUGHBRED BREEDERS
September 6
No servant anywhere could ever be described as ' great, ' least of all in the rapidly decomposing NZ racing industry.
Servants are housemaids, butlers, kitchen hands and exploited slaves. Like the stablehands of NZ who do their 70-80 weeks for much less then the minimum wage. And the breeders' labourers a.k.a journalists, like Dennis Ryan, the ' great servant ' praised recently by NZ Herald's Michael Guerin.
I met Ryan 50 years ago last month when I debuted in the press gallery at Ellerslie racecourse. He did spend quite a time training, and had a stint in Great Britain, but is back to the start, toiling in the editorship of a struggling weekly. Still writing nice stories about nice people and their nice horses, in an era where niceness isn't very saleable anymore.
A stack of horse racing books gifted to me recently includes the 1970 Hoof Beats magazine, and a table of the previous season's jumping riders. 47 of them had ridden 2 or more winners. All of them NZ-born, to make an amazing comparison with the national total of 12 jumps riders who competed at Hawera last Sunday.
FROZEN SLAVES
Only 4 NZ-borns among the 12 ! Foreign jumps riders include 49 and 43 year-olds from Ireland and a 45 year-old from Austria. Once upon a time Kiwi kids used to be ' weetbix kids, ' but nowadays there's more chance of them being ' ram raid kids ' than ' hurdle jockey kids ' No interest in working in the stables anymore. The feudal industry relies heavily on 3rd worlders from Asia, India and Mauritius, who are desperate for work and wages to send home to struggling families.
There was nothing in the recent array of stake money increases for the frozen slaves, who start collecting horse shit as early as 3 .15 a.m. 20 years ago start time was 3.30 a.m in one stable at Matamata, with workers risking forfeit of the weekly half-day off if they were late ! When the early receptionist at the Panmure swimming pool grumbles about rising at 4 a.m in winter, a few stablehand stories bring her back to reality.
With 33 years of Herald racing journalism in his CV, Guerin might even consider himself a ' great servant ' like Ryan. When ironically it is their dull and boring articles that are the problem. The racing media harp on about breeding and group races and black-type in Australia, and horses and sires and broodmares, with a distinct dearth of cult figures and controversies. So unattractive to normal humans.
MELE HUFANGA
A Reece Walsh is sorely needed, or a Latrell Mitchell or an Adin Fonua-Blake, for fans to argue about. League players, of course, and there's also a major boom in the NRLW.
' They're all bloody lesbians, ' scowled a rugby, racing and beer stalwart, who's joined many of his ilk in patching over to watch the women. No, only about 30%, according to contacts, but that isn't important. Their brilliant ball skills and kicking games are just as good as the men. The NRL dedicates Saturday and Sunday afternoons to the girls and you can bet on their games as well.
I had the good fortune to chat with a female road worker recently, who mentioned ' playing league ' and I recognised her as the nippy little number 9 who scored 2 tries in the recent Auckland womens' Grand Final demolition. And she's telling me all about her mates playing in the NRLW, and about 50% of the Canberra Raiders being NZ-borns and she's off to play in Sydney next year as well.
With Mele Hufanga rapidly becoming another cult figure. A massive Tongan from Otara, Mele plays centre for the Brisbane Broncos and is the competition's leading try-scorer. Always favourite for the first try in a game, as another sport plunders the NZ TAB, that until 1996 only operated on NZ horse racing.
While horse racing's betting turnovers continue to plummet, like around 15% over the last 12 months. Their problem, with our Champion Racing System performing better than ever. Even if Pluto attacking my own person this year and last has lowered the strike rate drastically, with only 2 wins from 9 investments since 2022 began !
Although it ain't too sad when those 2 winners pay $26.00 and $27.40, but I'll be aiming for 100% winners to starters when the Pluto mongrel stops harassing me next January. Heading to celebrate 40 years since the Astrological racing system was first shared with the public in November 1985.
Since 2019: 19 investments, 7 wins. Average win div $12.99 on a 36% winning strike rate ( Investment $1=$4.78 )
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IMPROVEMENT FOR AUCKLAND
September 4
Knowing when the bad shit's gonna end is the big Astrological advantage.
None of the shrinks or ' mental health advocates ' can tell a suicidal creature when the destructive Pluto phase will finish. Because Astrology is really the only option for the razor gazer.
Consider poor old Auckland. Very distressed and angry at present, many struggling after Covid and god's washing machine working overtime last summer. When investigation then detected the big problem-- Neptune in Pisces causing grief when opposing Auckland's natal Sun ! Officially between Virgo 24.38 and 25.38 degrees, courtesy of an 18 September, 1840 registration date.
It must be noted that Virgo's best friends are Capricorn and Taurus, with Pisces, Gemini and Sagittarius his enemies. Pluto's soon-to-be-finished Tour de Capricorn included his assisting Auckland's Virgo Sun with a powerful trine in 2021, especially the first 6 months when Auckland was basking in America's Cup glory. With the final leg in the 2021-22 summer, a time of elation after a 4-months lockdown ended in December.
POOR LUXON
Then Neptune in enemy Pisces started his harassment of Auckland's Sun, officially from May last year until January 2024. In the upcoming months there will be lots of liquidations and lay-offs, more rammies and robberies and unbelievable problems for the new P.M, Luxon. But improvement thereafter, especially with the Uranian awesomeness looming !
Since 2018, the erratic genius Uranus has been in Taurus, the domain of money and possessions, causing much disruption therein with all the financial problems and large debts from the Covid con. Although not everybody was conned, because Uranus can be helpful. He's currently at Taurus 23 degrees in retrograde motion before doing another U-turn next January and preparing to rescue Auckland's Virgo Sun and make it a lot more positive.
Uranus' Tour de Taurus at 24-25 degrees will bring a lot of improvements for Auckland's morale, especially around June and November next year, and March 2025.
As noted 2 years back, NZ has got all kinds of disruptions from Jupiter v Sun, Mars v Pluto and Saturn v Moon wrecking the next 6 months. Thereafter improvement. Rather coincidentally May 2024 has NZ benefitting from a rare, progressed Pluto trine to the Sun.
Hang in there, Aucklanders. There is light at the end of the dark tunnel.
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BIRTHDAYS
September 3
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Kevin Kalychurun 38
Monday: Graham Heaton 73 Stephen Jenkins 66 Glen Murray 57 Shane Penney 45
Tuesday: Rodney Dawkins 80
Wednesday: Mick Barlow 57 Dom Tourneur 49
Thursday: Bill McEwan and Robbie Byrnes 73 Nigel Lloyd 57 Sheryl Wigg 52 Vlad Duric 46 Rachel Tunnell 44
Friday: Frank Ritchie 79 Ian McKean 71 Shane Laming 60
Saturday: Marty Taylor 62 Kellie Kersley 56
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GAP YEARS AND MIKE MORONEY
September 1
The ' Gap Year ' has become very popular with ambitious Astrological believers.
That's when you take a break from serious life during unproductive, difficult Astrological phases. At age 55 I was fated to experience Pluto v Sun negativity, prompting a rest from horse racing investment. Pluto badness means you ain't gonna win any titles or break world records.
But fate also landed me a role in the American cable TV production Spartacus, as one of the many peasants dressed in rags. Awesome conditions and pay, like double the minimum wage. All filming done in Mt Wellington/Otahuhu and it was more a giant toga party than work and a very enjoyable way to enjoy a Gap Year.
Pluto badness also supervises a time of making bad decisions, as I did towards the end of the difficult phase. When females messed up a Sunday afternoon's plans, instead I went to watch my much younger mates from the Onehunga gym play indoor mixed netball.
In sneakers and shorts, which was a blessing to the team captain. Viva La Beaver were a man short and she ordered me to don the D for defence bib and make my indoor mixed netball debut. We won, I enjoyed the experience and fronted up next Sunday for another victory. I was apprehensive, though, being still under that Pluto negativity for a few more weeks.
So I announced my retirement the next day at the Onehunga gym, citing the desire to remain the world's only unbeaten mixed netball player. ' Nah, brother, ' countered a ginormous Samoan-Maori second rower.' One more game, you and me be the defence.'
Wonderful theatre, Otahuhu rugby league's meanest crash tackler, 30 years my junior and me, probably marking a pair of female goal shooters ? I weakened and the deal was sealed with a handshake. Another bad decision.
Unfortunately, the crash tackler got concussed during a rugby league Grand Final and didn't front up. I did, for another win and half an hour later was back at Onehunga for a spa, and bragging rights. Retiring unbeaten, Viva La Beaver top of the table......then suddenly I'm sore, and hobbling. One of the crash tackler's teammates reckoned it'd be ' sweet ' with a few days off training, but the physio had other ideas:
' A bruised achilles, do nothing for 3 months. Walk if you really have to.' The Don Murray All Stars Tag Football team was debuting soon, and playing in that got a big ' No ' as well.Of course it could have been a lot worse. Fellow gym junkies were telling me stories of achilles tears and wearing a moon boot for 3 months !
Sadly, I get no favours from the orbiters above, for all my dedication to and promotion of the wonderful science. But at least the knowing can be prepared for the reversals. And a lot worse things can happen under Pluto badness---bankruptcies, divorce, dishonourable activities, and sports coaches getting demoralised and dismissed etc.
Never a good time to take risks, as we consider an appearance in the Annual Prophecies this November of a very successful trans-Tasman horse trainer:
' Moroney, Michael:
Gap year recommended for the triangular-shaped horse trainer with Pluto-Moon emotional turbulence and the unhealthy, energy-sapping Neptune-Mars attack. Feb, April, July, Aug, Sept, Dec crucial, then Uranus-Mercury chaos in 2025.'
On November 6,2000, M D Moroney gained his biggest-ever success with Brew in the Melbourne Cup. But a storm was brewing in the very stressful training business. Truth of December 8, 2000 decreed that Melbourne-based Moroney would soon become inducted into the fictitious Matamata Bachelors' Association. So invented after some dramatic post-maritals in the town of horse racing addicts. M Moroney would be subject to some major Plutonian restructuring in 4th House home and family matters in 2001.
2 weeks later the news breaks that Moroney's missus ( based in Matamata ) has run off with another woman. And the ' restructuring in home and family matters ' included a sister taking her own life.
Michael Moroney has the height to be a good indoor netball player, but the stress of training has not been kind, and now he looks more like a steamroller than a Scottie Pippen. And definitely in need of a big rest. Under Pluto's badness, starting business ventures or marriage is not recommended. And, as has been done successfully on 2 occasions, get court cases adjourned until after the badness is gone !
We can still alert upcoming victims of Pluto attacks in 2023. Like horse racing notables Opie Bosson, Ryan Elliot, Leith Innes, Darren Weir, Steve Pateman, Kerrin McEvoy, Karyn Fenton-Ellis, Trent Busuttin, Donna Logan, Alan Sharrock, Jenny Vance. Also former racing notables like Craig Thornton, Jim Cassidy and Tom Hughes jun.
As we know so well, there are always gonna be profiters from Plutonian positivity. When you get the breaks, when you're in the right place at the right time. You make the right decisions,too.
A list of beneficiaries in the horse racing industry for 2024 is being prepared. Watch this space !
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LUXON AND NOELINE TAURUA !
August 30
One day they might wake up.
If you want results, don't employ a coach getting hammered by Pluto ! Silver Ferns coach Noeline Taurua apparently turned in a shocker at the recent World Cup which was not surprising. Her Mars position, at Aries 28 degrees-something, was always gonna get monstered from the year dot by Pluto in 2023 !
Down on August 26 some recent victims of Plutonian monsterosities were listed, along with a notable future victim named Luxon. Coach Christopher is very favoured to receive the poisoned chalice of prime ministership, as we consider the warnings here nearly 2 years ago, beneath
THE HORRORS OF LATE 2023
September 15, 2021
ending with: ' And there will be a lot more losers in NZ's horrific last half of 2023 '
Monday's big government announcement confirmed the crumbling nation's disastrous economic problems, following a record NZ loss over the weekend. When the All Blacks suffered their worst-ever defeat, to the Springboks at Twickenham by 35-7 ! With more extras to the nation's rapidly-diminishing morale:
Retail crime: Supermarket chain says assaults, robberies, burglaries more than doubled in a year
But all is not lost. As we know there will always be good Pluto and bad Pluto. And the revolution maker's movement into Aquarius next year will bring assistance to positions in the early degrees of Libra and Gemini, for example, so not everyone's gonna be ' Donalded.'
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THE EXTREMES OF ' MENTAL ILLNESS '
August 28
Listener: Are ordinary emotions being misdiagnosed as mental illness?
Yes. Modern ' mental illness ' was invented by an ex-rugby star desperately craving the limelight again. He was failing as a rugby coach, so ' mental illness ' was created.
The New World Order media system decided he was a necessary hero. A great distraction who could inspire a nation of cry babies. A failed ' comedian ' also latched on to this wonderful excuse for failures---his horrific relationships, with 6 children, and his own cocaine habit. Being a ' mental health advocate ' could get him back in the limelight !
THE ARIES QUADRELLA
Much of depression is ego-relevant. Recalling a hilarious time when Auckland's broadcasting industry housed 4 serious sufferers of ' depression.' The media was full of their wailings, but overlooked the fact that all had the sun sign of Aries, renowned for their big egos.
Aries likes to be in charge. Which isn't easy when they're wage-earners and subject to being booted around and dumped by the station manager. So they get all depressed and go on another booze or drugs bender:
Charlotte Dawson, Mike King and Jayjay Feeney. Also Murray Deaker who's own major problems had forced him to give up the booze.
Another classic for sadsacks is happy Venus and restrictive Saturn clashing in the natal chart. King, the cocaine user above and Sir John Kirwan, the desperate ex-rugby star, both possess this one. With the path to happiness continually paved with roadblocks, Venus-Saturn victims just keep on trying.
Yet another pearl in the Venus v Saturn desperation business is Karyn Fenton-Ellis MNZM. Her striving for appreciation has included stints in the corporate world, politics and a disastrous first marriage. Fenton-Ellis was also World President of Junior Chamber International (Jaycees) in 2000, having been elected unopposed in Cannes, France, and in 1989 had been the winner of the World Public Speaking Competition Final in Britain.
She once told me of her desires for a better world, and that ' we must be the change. ' She had a ' salute ' for me and ' my work ' ( Astrology ) and noted that ' too few people care these days.'
Fenton-Ellis eventually found her niche, as a syndicator of racehorses. An industry that's always been riddled with swindlers, fraudsters and ticket clippers. The last bastion of jealousy, with few peers in the western world for exploitation and slave labour. When she's ' being the change ' and making a better world,Fenton-Ellis would have to try and forget about all the dodgy bastards in that industry.
She may know of the $600K that 3 Waikato fellows, ' Dave, Mark and Stu ' tried to swindle from gullible Kiwi syndicate members in a horse sale to Singapore. They failed after the story was broken here. And I received an angry phone message from the ' Stu, ' who passed away a few months back.
Fenton-Ellis is proof of the extremes to which Venus-Saturn victims go in their vain pursuit of bliss. And Kirwan took the mockery to another level, when he decided to market his own brand and promote wine drinking ! One of his labels was ego-relevant as well, ' JK-11 ' to remind people of his glorious try-scoring days 30+ years ago when 'J K ' wore the number 11 jersey !
A ' mental health advocate ' encouraging people to get on the alcohol ? That derived from the Arabic ' Al Kuhl, ' translated as a ' body-eating spirit.' Researchers have deemed alcohol to be worse than any other drug. The scaly red faces, gloomy outlooks and pot bellies of career drunks are living proof.
Conclusion: Human emotions govern mental illness, more so when the mortal has certain difficult aspects in the natal chart. And sad sack Kirwan doesn't know the difference between depression and the dry horrors of a hangover.
Many other notables have been born with the Venus-Saturn happiness blocker, which is extremely difficult for close relationships. Horse racing has donated Shane Dye, Opie Bosson, Sam Spratt, Mike Dillon and Lisa Cropp etc. From the outside world there have been Gina Reinhart, Muhammed Ali, Ron Jeremy and Lisa Marie Presley etc.
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BIRTHDAYS
August 27
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Nick Downs 49 Jo Rathbone 43
Monday: Bill Cardwell 77 Kelvin Bourke 75 Lance O’Sullivan 60 Shannon Perry 50
Tuesday: Brendon Hutton 30
Wednesday: Michelle Strawbridge 52
Thursday: Kevin Moses 71 John Symons 67
Friday: Ian Hutchins 76 Roger Smith 70 Jeff Lloyd 62 Aaron Kuru 32
Saturday: Bill and Jim Pomare 75 Gai Waterhouse 71 Wayne Forbes 61 Erin Jillings 54
Party at Roger Smith's place ? There could be logistical and location problems, because he usually lives in his car.
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LUXON'S HOSPITAL PASS
August 26
It is gonna be a big fucker.
Threats of many job losses, which will all happen with the peak of NZ's recession 3-4 months away.
NZ's really heading for shit creek, with all those previously mentioned, difficult progression for November, December and February next year. And the polls indicate that ' Luxative ' will be replacing ' Napkins ' after the general election in October.
Poor NZ, considering next November's appearance:
' Luxon, Christopher:
Polly in for major stress and setbacks from Pluto attacking his Mars. Best to be bed-ridden in Jan, July, Nov, but 2025 has much improvement from Neptune and Uranus assisting that Mars position.'
Pluto attacking Mars supervises major career or personal problems and often depression or demotion. Just consider some of the case histories and high-profile victims of same aspect last year--- Prince Andrew, NRL superstars Brad Fittler and Reece Walsh, and jockey Leith Innes.
2023's victims include dumped NRL coach Anthony Griffin, struggling jockey Jonathan Riddell and angry NZ polly Megan Woods, who's heading for a big dump as well.
Pluto wreaks his havoc on other planets of course, with this year's victims of Plutonian destruction also including King Charles, Rafael Nadal, Steve Pateman, Brendan McCullum and Roger Tuivasa-Sheck.
Giving Luxon the keys to NZ would be like firing a hospital pass, with David Fifita and Tevita Pangai jun lining him up for a gang tackle.
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RACING FOR RED INK
August 24
There was a bit of optimism in some quarters of NZ thoroughbred racing.
The recently-announced stake hikes for the new season had professional bum wipers like thick prick Mick ( NZ Herald's Guerin ) predicting a renaissance in the industry, which was dogged by horrific drops in betting turnover last season.
Of course the stake increases are from the new TAB owner's bribes and further borrowing from the reserve fund. A ' renaissance ' means that a new kind of human is suddenly gonna find NZ horse racing so cool to watch and lose money on ? Even if last season finished around 10% down on betting turnovers from the previous ?
NZTR used to publish their weekly betting statistics, but that ceased a long time ago. It was starting to become very embarrassing and there was so much red ink to source. I phoned a high-ranking NZTR fellow last week about this, and he muttered and mumbled about ' only stakeholders receiving the information.' So if he wouldn't tell me, I'd just get one of my spies to sort it out !
NZTR fellow didn't sound very happy at all and later I wondered if he was reading the betting stats for the first week of this month and having a ' puma pants ' experience when I phoned. Word from a well-placed spy indicates that everyone in the hierarchy is shitting themselves, especially after 3 of the 4 gallops meetings registered horrific drops in turnover !
Cambridge ( Wed ) -- 32%
Ruakaka ( Sat ) --17%
Hawera ( Sun ) -- 16 %
Only the main Riccarton meeting on Saturday had an increase---a paltry 2.23 %
Don't look like there will ever be stake increases again during Guerin's ' renaissance.' Oh, and there's a major recession looming as well. About which there's been plenty of warning. Initially beneath
THE HORRORS OF LATE 2023 on September 15, 2021.
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THERE WILL ALWAYS BE LIARS AND LOWLIFES
August 23
When you've done several thousand Astrological enlightenments, patterns emerge.
The amazing science is very popular with humanitarians and the family-orientated. Mothers and fathers getting their children analysed and relatives in all parts of the world. And incredible interest from very successful sports players and coaches, with 7 or 8 national champions having received enlightenment.
Fit bodies create fit minds. They read and think, and become very fascinated by that which explains the unexplainable. A hell of a lot of ex-jockeys have also latched on to the Astrological amazement, and with plenty of wonderful feedback. Which is normal for people who've travelled and experienced life.
Numerous lawyers and entrepreneurs have also requested enlightenments. Very important to know when cases should be adjourned and when rivals are under Pluto or Uranian malevolence. And when you can do dangerous things and not get busted.
While in all those years, only 2 journalists, both long-standing acquaintances from horse racing, have bothered. Poor NZ. So deeply troubled, and running away from the truth. As well as deliberately avoiding the only science that gets it right, as I hark back nearly 40 years to
THE ORIGINAL MEDIA COWARD
'Twas veteran journo Colin Moore, in a full broadsheet page, bleating about his own depression. I'd remembered Colin from my mid-1970s days at NZ Herald. Now he was a lifer, with more than 20 years in the house of gloom.
I phoned Colin, and told him of my Astrological discoveries in England and various formulae being produced. He could locate a birth time from his mother, and his life would be explained ?
' Thanks, ' concluded Colin. ' But I'd rather not.'
I was shocked, but not really surprised, having experienced Herald rigity. Then a real surprise in October 1993, when another Herald veteran Bernadette Rae came for a story on horse racing tipsters, with November's Melbourne Cup in mind.
A giggly, shallow tale involving colours and lucky numbers ? No way, and she was horrified when I told her about the ancient Astrological system, but she did volunteer a birth date upon request. I selected a year of serious Pluto-Venus catastrophe, often incorporating romantic problems or marriage break up, or major, difficult lifestyle changes ?
TELLING LIES
' No, no, nothing like that then, ' was the quick reply, and the gut feeling was she was telling lies. I assured her she'd remember it later, and explained the amazing Astrological racing system. Like the $55 winner forecast for the legendary J Bart Cummings on Melbourne Cup day of 1986. I produced a scrapbook with amazing predictions made in the racing publication Friday Flash.
Ms Rae was not impressed--the truth was getting in the way of a ' good story '--- then we talked about our respective Herald lives, with her ' going back there in X when my marriage broke up.' That was it ! The year of the Pluto v Venus catastrophe. I returned to the ephemiris, with ' Here's your birthdate, and note Venus there at ....'
The sad old bitch packed another sad. And there was nothing flattering about her pathetic story, very negative and she chose to focus on a $3 winner. And I had ' boasted gleefully ' about the world's most expensive magazine. The monthly tips, on a single sheet of paper retailing for $20 !
Of course journos never get much chance to ' boast gleefully ' about anything. As professional bum wipers and automatic tax payers there's little more than the weekly wage to get excited about. They don't have national icons seeking Astrological advice about their futures, they just dream of a rare front-page lead, like veteran David Fisher produced last weekend:
Clairvoyant who 'conned' $19m Lotto winner: Claims of debts emerge
Less people would have been conned if silly old Rae and Moore had done a bit more research nearly 30 years ago ! Many would have been saved from major losses if there'd been benchmarks for competent prediction makers.
Of course not all humans would benefit from the great science. Part of the magnificence has formulae for cowards, cry babies and truth stretchers, and the extremely narrow-minded lifers like Rae, Fisher, Moore and previous offenders Lewis, Phare and co.
There will always be lowlifes, losers and liars. And probably looters during NZ's horrific next 6 months. And always laughter, it's the best form of medicine.
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THE FATHERLESS TRACKSIDE KID
August 21
Some 16 years ago one of Trackside Channel's toilers was filthy.
She was pregnant, and her jockey husband had run off with another woman. Jockey was in deep disgrace but his parents still wanted to play their part. The resultant product spent time with his grandparents, although Mrs H began to have her doubts.
2 years after the birth, DNA testing proved that Mrs H's son was not the unplanned child's father ! A story on this website got instant reaction from the Trackside bastard's mother. She wouldn't tell me who the father was, and claimed that I didn't know the ' full story .'
In thoroughbred breeding parlance, the kid would be described as ' by a sire of unknown pedigree.' Then the Trackside lifer also claimed that ' it's not Mick's either ! '
Mick ? Who's Mick ?
' You fucking well know ! ' continued the angry mother. I continued to feign ignorance, although harness racing sources had claimed that a ' Mick ' had paid the mother $10K to keep her trap shut. The story was not removed and 10 minutes later there was a call from a veteran stalwart of the racing industry.
Also demanding removal of the story, but he was told to go and get fucked as well. Then he tried to play the kiddy card: ' There's a 3 year-old boy involved ! ' So I suggested that the boy stop reading my website.
So many unwanted and neglected kids come out of the ugly, deteriorating palagi culture. They find gang membership a lot more attractive.
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BIRTHDAYS
August 20
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Paul Harris 60 Mark Gaskell 51 Timmy Murphy 49 Jim O’Styke 48
Monday: Bernard Dyke 64 Scott Lucock 62 Glenn Boss 54 Linda Meech 43
Tuesday: Ron Gurney 70 Tracey Bartley 57 Matt Cameron 37
Wednesday: William Haggas 63 Mark Riley 61 Brent Mangos 60 Lucy De Lautour 48
Thursday: Steven Dennett 65
Friday: Lindsey Smith 64 Richard Cully 42 Craig Franklin 41 Daniel Small 34 Lee Magorrian 29
Saturday: Barry Long 75 Paul Sellwood 43
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RAM RAIDERS AND RECORD BREAKERS
August 18
112 hours after the Grand Final, the Auckland Rugby League website had a simple message: ' Results not submitted '
As per the Premier Reserves Grand Final last Saturday. It had taken nearly 48 hours for the final score to make the site, with ' Results not submitted ' referring to the ' timeline ' and who scored all the tries. By Thursday morning we were still no wiser, but very aware of the problems.
The ARL have been serial offenders in recent years, and similar inefficiencies have been noted in many official places and government departments. They send 2 letters to a wrong address so you ask them if they've ever heard of email. The many-headed monster of the pit is losing the plot, and there's a great sense of hopelessness in NZ.
' The annual survey by the Retirement Commission found the number of people in financial difficulty increased by 17% since their first survey in 2021.
A total of 55% reported being in a financially difficult position.
Of those surveyed, 51% reported they were 'starting to sink' or 'treading water', while a further 3.5% reported they were 'sinking badly'. '
I can't remember the nation being so angry. Although I was working in the Scottish Highlands in 1981, when the Springbok tour and the protests had NZ on the brink of civil war. That anger was from passionate, humanitarians fighting for the freedom of Black people in South Africa.
The protesters were successful, ultimately bringing the filthy racists to their knees. But NZ's current anger is all about hopelessness and the financial strains above. There is no light in the dark tunnel for many, so it's reasonably hilarious when you consider some of NZ's growth industries. Like the ram raid boom.
Kid crime is skyrocketing and the ambition of many youths is to earn a gang patch. It isn't all bad though. The ram raid boom means the cops are too busy to follow up speeding tickets and check vehicle registrations. And bust tinny houses.
How about this milestone ?
' Police have seized three-quarters of a tonne of methamphetamine in a raid on a South Auckland warehouse, making it the biggest meth bust in New Zealand history.
Researchers and drug harm reduction groups say New Zealand is “at the mercy” of a growth in global meth production, threatening an “exponential increase” of harm to our communities.'
Only one verdict for the crumbling nation that's a heavy promoter of alcohol, and regards smoking Murrayjuana as criminal. And cringes away from the truths of Astrology: You are getting exactly what you deserve.
A hideous, palagi trash culture has been created. There's a knighted, ' mental health advocate ' named Kirwan who actually manufactures wine and promotes alcohol consumption !
Ideally the ram raiders, kid crims and meth importers will continue unabated. That may be necessary to convince the K.I.W.I stupids to change a few of their methods.
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.' THEY CAN BULLY AND CONTROL HUMANS, BUT NOT THE PLANETS.'
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WILDFIRES AND DUMMIES
August 16
Anybody with doubts about Astrology can only be a sad ' pakuranga hunt ' after the pearls of phenomenal prediction reviewed down on August 4.
Horse racing certainties as far as 5 years, 4 months and 3 days in advance ? The ' Martin Crowe day ' 10 months beforehand ?
Add the 18 years of Newstalk ZB greatness and the ravings of Murray Deaker ONZM. Also the amazing predictions on Trackside Channel, inTruth and Friday Flash, the performances on Radio Pacific, Radio Live, Humm FM etc and various television channels. It's hard to think that our lives are not planned.
There is automatic disagreement from the scowling scabs in the NZ Skeptics mob, remembering that part of Astrology's programme includes the depression aspects we analyse so often. There will always be loaded 12th Houses, Mars afflictions and Scorpio Moons, the aspects which enhance mental illness and supervise senseless suggestions from sick Skeptics. Like:
Don Murray Challenge to Don: Next predicted 100:1 - re-mortgage your house and put down $100,000.'
A common cop out from nasty people. But there is nothing left to prove with Astrology, and the great science does have provision for fearful and negative humans.But you do wonder if the dummies will ever latch on to our wonderful ' Holiday Astrology. ' When favourable planets have you in the right place at the right time, instead of
' Exploding cars, bodies in the harbour: How a holiday paradise became a nightmare
Families recount what happened when wildfires turned their vacations into a nightmare.'
Add the ' sell-your-property ' syndrome which backs the theories about planned lives. The Astrological annals have wonderful tales of fortunate clients who've sold a doomed property before the deluge and devastation.
Other annals have sob stories of those who've lost heavily with their investments. And were never ever going to be fortunate enough to do otherwise.
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WHAT BOILS A HERALD KETTLE ?
August 14
There was recent mockery of the NZ Herald lifers. Plenty of old journos there who watch the world go by, some even wondering what it would be like to do something original.
Like Paul Lewis, who'd been at the Herald a couple of years when I arrived in 1973. Lewis did have 5 years working in PR for a firm in Singapore, then returned in 2004 to be sports editor of the recently formed Herald on Sunday. I wondered then if he would help with the Astrological renaissance.
My last 14 years had included columns in weeklies Truth and Friday Flash and the annual Newstalk ZB gig every January since 1994. Now I was columnless, and didn't like my chances of convincing a stodgy old Herald lifer. But nothing ventured, nothing gained, so I phoned Lewis.
No interest whatsoever and my suggestion was scoffed off with ' It doesn't boil my kettle. '
10 years later Lewis was demoted to be a backbencher in digital productions. He's still going at age 70, unable to retire and live off the pension and great achievements after a divorce brought another mortgage. He's remembered with a ' Lewis ' column grizzling about sport every Sunday.
So what does boil the Lewis kettle ?
He looks at the Herald headlines each morning and considers the progress he's made in the last 50-something years ?
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BIRTHDAYS
August 13
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Paul Hamblin 57 Brad Pengelly and Patrick Ferris 46
Monday: Garry Phillips 72 Robert Caddigan 60 Ryan Wiggins 41
Tuesday: Danny Crozier and Bernard Myers 60 Darryl Bradley 57 Wez Hunter 43 Princess Shamsa 42
Wednesday: Bill Masters 83 Stephen Moffatt 72 Gary Grylls 61 Brad Rawiller 45
Thursday: Eric Musgrove 72 Gary Jenkins 61
Friday: Des Lake 81 John McLeod 74 Craig Thornton 57 Jamie Gillies 47 Chris Allen 45 Chris Symons 41 Jamie Richards 34
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TRACKSIDE'S WANNABE DRUG RAPIST
August 11
Back around July 2020, we reported on a pedo harness racing trainer/driver who was subsequently dubbed the ' Chutney Man.'
He'd been sexually abusing a junior driver-employee. The Racing Integrity Unit didn't want to know about the kid's complaints so family connections got gang members involved.
Chutney Man got a visit and had to call the cops for safety purposes. That's when the cops heard of the employee's complaint and investigations began.
2 more abused former employees came forward and suddenly Chutney Man's in a pickle and facing serious charges. The court case got deferred a couple of times, in the Covid era and with fresh complainants emerging. Latest has the hearing set for next February.
THE DRINK SPIKER
In the meantime, information has been gained about a Trackside Channel employee's historic offending. Some 10 years back he spiked a female stablehand's drink in a Ruakaka motel with the worst of intentions.
Ms felt wowsy and drowsy and wobbled out on the balcony and started undressing. WTF ? wondered a pair of bypassers. The girl was saved, but the matter went no further. As is so often the case in horse racing, more so when famous people are involved.
The Spiker has some lethal aspects in his natal chart, especially for one with a wife and 2 kids. Venus in Aries, whose owners need adventures and fresh challenges and are big risks for ' until death do us part.' Notable racing personnel with same include Natalie Rasmussen, Katrina Purdon, Danielle Johnson, Trudy Thornton, Shaune Ritchie, Michael Walker, Sir Mark Todd and disgraced ex-journo Mike Dillon.
Like a catholic family of 5 children that I grew up with. All got married, but only 2 lasted--the 2 without Venus in Aries !
Outside world possessors of Venus in Aries who've suffered great disgrace include Rolf Harris, Phillip Schofield, Kamahl Santamaria, Mitchell Pearce, Malcolm Rewa, Ron Jeremy and Peter Plumley-Walker.
The Spiker keeps on trying. An Otahuhu gentleman tells of his attempts to chat up his niece who works in a day care.
LIAR OF THE AGES
We can confirm that the wannabe Trackside rapist is not the deadly boring Aidan Rodley, who inadvertently started eating his own faeces last weekend.
Last month we laughed about Rodley's November 1982 birthdate on Facebook. Elsewhere he claims to have completed a journalism course in 1997 !
Winter racing is quite boring, more so when one of the few watchable races includes Rodley geysering away. Last Saturday he was interviewing leading jockey Lisa Allpress and noted the passing of time since they were at Stratford High School together.
Lisa Allpress was born in May 1975. And I didn't get that from Facebook, her mother told me, around 30 years ago. Then rang me back 10 minutes later because they'd located Lisa's birth certificate and the time of arrival was slightly different to the one she had just given me.
A RETARD ?
Genius Rodley, a qualified journalist at age 15, must have leapfrogged his way through school ?
Lisa, 7.5 years his senior, must have been a retard, who sucked her thumb in class and gazed out the window instead of learning to read ? So she kept on getting held back a year, and was stagnant in high school ? When the hot Rod whizzed past and said ' See ya later, I'm going to be a journalist.'
But it's more likely that Rodley is very protective of his real age. A common trait with space wasters toiling in the ugly worlds of media and broadcasting. Lifers therein get kicked around like pieces of faeces and wonder what they've really achieved.
Coming soon: The funniest Trackside tale of all-- the boy with the wrong father for 2 years !
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THE PRE-CHRISTMAS CRASH
August 9
20 years ago NZ was in the middle of a major spiritual renaissance.
When Newstalk ZB hosted the annual State of the Astrological Nation address for an hour every January from 1994 for 18 years. With plenty of exposure for the greatest science in other media outlets until the New World Order's master plan to keep the great unwashed dumb and depressed kicked in.
Then, early in August 2018, I was contacted by Radio Live host Richard Green. He had remembered the shows on Newstalk ZB with Murray Deaker ONZM and wondered if I could spare half an hour to enlighten his listeners one Friday evening.
That was no problem. Talkback lines were opened and the response was amazing, as people phoned in with their birth information and got analysed. Green wondered if I could do another half hour. No problem again, with another half hour after that. Next morning there was an email:
On 10 August 2018 at 13:05, Richard Green <richardgreen1012@gmail.com> wrote:
' Hi Don,
Thanks so much for last night and I really appreciated you staying on extra long due to the popularity!
I hope you enjoyed it as well which is the main thing :-)
A couple of things perhaps and one of them you suggested… Take some dates before the commercial break so that it gives you a chance to look them up during that time and also get some of the audience asking more questions but I can set that up by explaining it in advance.
Another option in regards to dates is get the producer to take some dates in advance which is what she started to do last night.
How did you think it went from your end?
Thanks, Richard '
I replied in the positive but had no expectations of the amazing show being repeated. There should always be a demand for this kind of wisdom, but it doesn't fit with the New World Order master plan.
Sad that more people couldn't have been prepared for the Covid era to avoid their travel and business losses. And wouldn't many of the big losers from last summer have loved to have had the Astrological advice of that Queenslander, who sold his ranch 6 weeks before flooding turned it into a lake !
It's not as if the retards and victims haven't had enough warning. Regular helpings of Astrological magnificence have been happening since the first horse racing certainty in Friday Flash 33 years ago last month ! And the 18 years of Newstalk ZB that began on January 1,1994 !
NZ has become a very angry nation, and one deserving of derision. Why does it tolerate a media system that despises Astrological truth,but promotes fear and loathing with his kind of encouragement ?
Watch: Ram raiders make 'massive mess' of shop in 90 seconds : Watch: ‘I felt really unsafe’ - Uber driver snoops around woman’s house moments after dropping her home: Watch: 30 seconds of terror, robbers' million-dollar rampage on Auckland jeweller: Watch: Supermarket worker takes on iron bar-wielding man as retail crime rates soar: Watch: Footage of car fire on SH29 near Tauranga
More importantly, the Astrological machine is running rampant. There were those stunning prophecies on Australia and NZ in the Covid eon, China's economic disasters in June, and NZ's current, horrific financial situation. With the latter still to peak around October, and the destructive overhead meeting of energetic Mars and Pluto supervising the major late 2023 chaos.
Mars v Pluto often concerns anger management and serious psychological issues. Never a very productive phase so there shall be a flood of liquidations and lay-offs before christmas.
The rifles, robberies and rammies will continue unabated. With, ' oh, fuck yes, ' a well-connected underworld figure assured me that the record below would get broken:
' Open gang warfare and brazen shootings in Auckland saw recorded gun crimes spike during a single month in the Super City with an average of more than three per day.There were 109 gun crimes in May, figures supplied by police under the Official Information Act show. '
Post-christmas will also be tough for NZ, with a cry-baby nation from Saturn-Moon matters until April.
Much more fun being a laughter baby, and tormenting all those scowling sceptics. That human going through life as a trotting horse wearing blinkers will also have a Klu Klux Klan hood minus the peep holes with its tail tied to a steamroller.
5 years later, and Richard Green still hasn't replied.
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NZ HERALD---50 YEARS AGO
August 7
'Twas 50 years ago this week that I started work at NZ Herald. I lasted less than 4 years, but have fine memories of life in the 7-person horse racing department of conservative old ' granny Herald.'
So strict that NZ Herald didn't use christian names in stories, unless a knight of the realm Sir ? was involved. And it was weird writing about the famous Skelton brothers-- not jockeys Bill, Bob, Frank, Errol and Max---- but W.D, R.J, F.H, E.B and M.J Skelton in Herald speak.
Bylines had an odd rule. If you were commonly known by your christian name i.e ' by Allan Brown ' was accepted. The great rugby writer Terry Mclean had been christened Terrence and was known world-wide as Terry but he had to have ' by T.P McLean ' atop his Herald stories. Donald had to have ' by D C Murray ' there.
You had to be considered mature enough to have the honour of the byline. Come August 1975, I'd been there 2 years and very frustrated by the racing editor's reluctance. So I had a chat with a deputy-editor, explaining that ' By Don Murray ' appeared in other racing publications etc and Mr Chappell wondered what the racing editor, Allan Brown, thought of this. No problems there, I explained, since Mr Brown used to ' rat ' for other publications like Truth and Friday Flash.
I departed Mr Chappell's office with confidence. Next day a racing staff member told me that Brown told him I was to be granted the byline. Later Brown's deputy was filthy on me for dobbing Brown in about his sideline activities. Brown was a nasty, institutionalised, ' pakuranga hunt ' who would spend 43 years with his only employer.
Mission accomplished, then D C Murray was considered mature enough to join Allan Brown and J.A Knight in the tipping panel after 3.5 years. I was planning to sit it out and wait for Brown or Knight to die or retire and become the racing editor. The annual Melbourne Cup trip every year would be my Everest.
The dream of many Heraldians was to remain there 40 years, to collect a gold watch and some large superannuation $$$. With a ' my column ' always possible in the interim, where a dutiful Heraldian could write weekly about his favourite subject. Deputy-editor Jock Graham had a weekly ' Cellar Book ' and he wrote about wine. Illustrations editor D.W Lochore had a weekly column about bridge, and chief reporter John Ross penned ' Life and Faith ' about matters of christianity.
But 3 months after aspiring to the tipping panel I was dismissed, for pissing the veteran trotting writer off. 14 years later Brown retired. Knight went up, then was replaced 4 years later. If I'd behaved myself for 18 years I could have become the racing editor !
Now it's the NZ Horrid, and every morning I laugh at the degeneration of NZ journalism with their filthy headlines. And occasionally wonder how the remaining lifers from the 1970s feel about their product. Phare and Lewis, who tried briefly to work in the real world but returned to granny Herald's bosom and have around 90 years of Heralding between them.
And you wonder about all the staunch pillars of perfect journalism upstairs in the Press Bar. McLean, Brown, Chappell, Graham and co sobbing into their gins, trying to remember the glory days.
THE EVEREST
Early in 1977 my Everest was going to be the weekly trip to the Melbourne Cup every November as NZ Herald racing editor. I've only attended one Melbourne Cup day at Flemington,as a non-journalist in November of 1977, and had such an amazing day that might never be repeated.
But 40 years later there was the best Everest imaginable. Like the Wayne Hillis-Watch This Space epic down on August 4. The Guinness Book has no section for ' long-range prophecy ' and wanted ten thousand UK pounds to consider my application.
I took this as confirmation that I set a World Record that is very unlikely to ever be beaten. And blessed granny Herald yet again for deciding that I didn't have the makings of a lifer......
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BIRTHDAYS
August 6
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Robbie Griffiths 54
Monday: Greg Billings 70 Brendan Hain 52 Julia Ritchie 48
Tuesday: Brian Wadham 72 Richard Collett 61 KimTaylor 57 James Sievwright 29
Wednesday: Paul Hillis 63 Sir John Key 62 Stephanie Clark 52 Patrick Ryan 48
Thursday: Peter Van Wanrooy 60 Willie Harnett 55 Louise McGregor 53
Friday: Kenny Smith 82 Paul Goss 61 Tony Mokbel 58
Saturday: Lee Freedman 67 John Yetton 65 Caspar Fownes 56
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SIX OF THE UNBEATABLES
August 4
Poor old Keen Interest Without Intelligence is struggling, as morale in NZ nears rock bottom. Plodding along, like the trotting horse wearing blinkers, but unable to stop and deal with serious questions:
Can you understand English ?
Have you heard of Hippocrates ?
Have you heard of the ' Three Wise Men.' ?
If you haven't got ' Yes ' x 3, go no further. Same if you are a christian, a television-loving drunk, a news media scab, a ' mental health ' advocate, or just a general cynic, do not proceed.
Because you will be required to think ! And even consider out-of-the-square possibilities !
You would have to ask yourself: How could these incredible prophecies be made ?
HORSE RACING
www.donmurrayastrologer.com, July 4, 2012:
' WAYNE HILLIS FOR MELBOURNE CUP DAY, 2017 '
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' And the final leg in November. Especially 7, the first Tuesday, Melbourne Cup day to racegoers. Don’t matter whether W P Hillis is at Flemington, Hanging Rock or back home somewhere, he will be buzzing.
Hopefully he lines up, to get us a nice win on November 7, 2017. And set a new world record for long-range racetipping. '
On November 7, 2017, trainer W P Hillis had one runner---Watch This Space, who won the open 1600 metres handicap at Ellerslie and paid $9.80 for the win !
FRIDAY FLASH, October 30, 1992:
' I'll be surprised if punters don't make a fortune backing runners from Stephen Autridge's stable on February 6, July 23 and November 28 next year.'
Trainer S R Autridge did not have runners on the first two dates but his only starter on November 28,1993, Matsqui, won and returned a $22.65 win dividend !
RUGBY
Newstalk ZB, November 22, 2003, around 4.45 pm:
Warning host Murray Deaker ONZM and a nation of listeners that probable next All Blacks coach Graham Henry was a big risk for the next Rugby World Cup year ( 2007 ) because of disastrous late year Pluto-Moon and Uranus-Sun reversals.
In October 2007, G Henry's All Blacks were red-hot favourites and had their worst-ever RWC, getting dumped in a quarter-final by France !
CRICKET
TRUTH, April 29, 1994: In predicting a return to form for controversial cricketer Martin Crowe:
' In fact if Crowe were a jockey I'd be backing his mounts on Tuesday, February 14,1995.
That's the sort of day that the administration jokers should mark down for a one-day international against the Aussies.'
On February 14, 1995, Crowe played in a Shell Trophy match for Wellington and made 193 not out !
RUGBY LEAGUE
FRIDAY FLASH, July 18,1991:
' I'm not optimistic about the Kiwis winning the next league test against Australia, but I hope like Donald I'm wrong.Next Wednesday's a special for Mal Meninga and a bummer for Jarrod McCracken.
' I'll be relaying this prognosis to coach Bob Bailey so don't be surprised if the wonder centre is subbed early in the game.'
After 26 minutes Jarrod McCracken was sent from the field after making an innocent attempt to stop a brawl !
TRUTH, November 15,1996:
' Maybe the bet of the century tag could be placed on whoever is playing the Brisbane Broncos on May 30 or 31 next year.Those days have coach Wayne Bennett suffering the painful Saturn-Neptune square that harassed Auckland coach Graham Henry when his team got knocked off by Counties.'
On May 31, 1997 the lowly Hunter Mariners upset the Broncos 24-6, with a head-to-head bet returning $4.20 on the New Zealand TAB !
Any thoughts ?
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70--6 GRAND FINAL WIN
August 2
It isn't very often you get this kind of score in any sporting Grand Final.
I harked back to a fascinating 40--50 minutes with a young Samoan girl at the Otahuhu spa early this year. Very confident, ambitious and already successful as a rugby league hooker, Ms Mary-Jane Taito knew everything about rugby league in the region.
Except for the tale about the North Queensland Cowboys scout purchasing 8 pizzas in Townsville before 14 year-old future superstar Jason Taumalolo’s father signed the contract. I noted too, that Tongan Jason seems to have a hell of a lot of cousins in Otahuhu, and ' M J ' had the answer, ‘ Because his parents come from different Islands.’
Come July 29, the ARL livestream had the youth Grand Finals. The under-16 girls had the Otahuhu Blue Angels against the Mangere East Elite Queenz, which included Ms M J Taito. Who earned great praise from the commentary team for her fitness and long, accurate passes from dummy half. And her own 3 tries, in another possible World Record, a 70--6 Grand Final victory.
What a team. Including a kicker who could nail conversions from the sideline. No doubt the Sydney talent sharks will be circling, and ' M J ' had told me that many male and female contemporaries from her turf have been poached by Australian clubs. Like Jason Taumalolo was in 2007.
Womens' rugby league is growing rapidly, suddenly with 10 teams in the Australian NRLW, playing 9 rounds before a finals series. Last year there was a World Cup and another for womens' rugby, with the FIFA females and netballers making headlines with their own shows at the moment.
It's all part of the Astrological plan, of course, about the extreme weakening of the male forecast here early in 2008. During Pluto's Tour de conservative Capricorn ( 2008-2024 ) many traditions have died, especially with trustworthy leaders, the media and real estate, and there's the widening divide between father and son. Add the LGBT mob, transgenders, a lot more gays in parliament and unbelievable numbers of whimps and wusses getting bossed around by control-freak females.
Now women are moving in on the great game of rugby league, that once upon a time was the domain of wharfies, dustmen and freezing workers.
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2023 RWC: CHANGE OF PLANS
July 31
There is no place for sentiment where Astrological magnificence is concerned.
Like feeling sorry for a deeply-troubled nation, and cutting a few corners to predict on July 19 that the All Blacks would win the 2023 RWC.
The plans have changed after I located a time of birth for the French coach, Fabien Galthie. Too many positives in his near future, and no arrival times for any of the All Blacks' main men.
As once noted, an All Blacks win doesn't fit the extremely depressed nation of pre-Christmas 2023. So there is no prediction for the October Rugby World Cup, and the July 19 article has been removed.
The time of birth is vital for serious prophecies. Coaching legend Robbie Deans was fascinated by the amazing science, like many great coaches and players, and even tried the Cheviot Hospital for his time of arrival in late 2007.
No luck, and I made my only All Blacks error this century when selecting R Deans’ Australia for the 2011 RWC. This must never happen again.
While there are few better RWC memories than that amazing day in October 2007, when France tipped the All Blacks out in a quarter-final.
There was that gloomy black cloud that descended upon the nation,and stayed for 2 months. And the observations of an Iraqi lass in the nearby petrol station later that afternoon !
' You know, zee customer is so angry today. I zink is something to do with rugby.'
Footnote: Australia is a million to one with Donbet, and drifting for the RWC after this epic in the November 2021 Annual Prophecies:
' Jones, Eddie:
Rugby coach hampered by Neptune-Jupiter complications in April, Aug and Feb 023. With Neptune-Node complications in Oct 023 as well. '
At that time E Jones was coaching England. Then he was relieved of his position and silly Australia picked up the pieces. More fragments than ever after the All Blacks crushed them 38-7 on Saturday night.
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BIRTHDAYS
July 30
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Brian Galvin 77 Jade Zuppicich 41 Luke Tarrant 29
Monday: Les Bridge 85 Maree Davey 60 Gavin Eades 57 Peter Moody 54
Tuesday: Cliff Clare 93 Brian Smith 82 Tim Clark 37
Wednesday: Gail Temperton 75 Matthew Cahill 56
Friday: Chris Wood 62 Richard Cole 56 Simon Price 53 Wiremu Pinn 25
Saturday: John Sadler 69 Debbie Rogerson 58
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' PAKURANGAS ' WHO'VE ' DONALDED ' RACING
July 29
There are plenty of ' pakurangas ' messing up the world. The sad ones, the sick ones and the ' pakurangas ' who can't stop telling lies.
The Pakuranga Hunt is an icon of old South Auckland, and also the only NZ racing club in the dictionary of Cockney Rhyme. Just like ' Donald Duck.'
' Pakuranga Hunt was established in 1872 and is still active today. The first formal meet was in 1874. Sir George Grey imported some hounds which he sold to William McLaughlin of Puhi Nui farm, Papatoetoe.'
Their celebrations included an annual raceday at Ellerslie in late August, loaded with jumping races including the Pakuranga Hunt Cup. No longer at Ellerslie after the stupid Auckland Racing Club pakurangas stopped steeplechase racing there in 2021. Then moved to theTe Aroha course, which is now having refuckturing problems.
There have been some unbelievable transfers and abandonments of meetings, courtesy of the horrific track surfaces, so the 2023 Pakuranga Hunt will now host a meeting of 2 halves ! The Hunt Cup and the main hurdle race will happen at Te Rapa on Saturday, August 26, the other races on Sunday September 3 at Hawera, some 400 km from the spiritual home of the Pakuranga Hunt.
THE GREAT DETERIORATION
' Twas 50 years ago when I was in between racing jobs. After 2 years as a clerk at headquarters in Wellington ( now NZTR ) then a tip off that would get the dream job ( then ) for a teenager, NZ Herald junior racing reporter, in August 1973.
When horse racing was the only thing you could bet on legally, apart from a lottery thing named ' Golden Kiwi. ' You couldn't bet on any Australian races or sport, and racing's public profile was high after the big jackpots that drew masses to the racetracks. There would be 6 meetings in NZ on Easter Monday. Now there are 2.
The most important races were long-distance handicaps. 2 milers in NZ like the Auckland, Wellington and NZ Cups and Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane Cups the standouts in Australia. Trainers had to be a lot smarter, in having to carefully place their horses to get lighter weights in handicaps.
The majority of horses had just one owner, and the rules permitted a maximum of 3. Today's syndicates have a lot of 1 to 5 percenters who still call it ' my horse.'
30 horses in work was a big stable then, and some very astute trainers could make a living from less than 10 in training. These astute men had NZ-owned and trained horses winning 30% of the mighty Melbourne Cups in the 1960s and 70s. The astute trainers have been replaced by horse factories, with corporate-style stables in the Waikato having over 100 in work. No surprise that the last NZ-trained Melbourne Cup winner happened in 2001, before that 1988.
BREEDERS ARE THE REAL ' PAKURANGAS '
There were very few bloodstock agents in 1973. People bought or bred horses to race them, to have a social day out, away from the normal grind. The owners were usually self-employed and often rich, and hopeful of social advancement with a ' good horse.' Setting one up for the punt was more important than selling the precocious youngster to Asia. And much more lucrative when only one owner was involved.
Every town in the country had a TAB agency. Manned by clerks who'd hand write the betting tickets. And phone head office in Wellington with their figures just before the race started. And every pub had an illegal s.p bookmaker. Astute trainers were known to punt big with s.p bookmakers to preserve their tote dividends.
Nowadays you can bet on anything and TAB horse racing turnovers are tumbling. And all the dumb pakurangas on Trackside Channel babble on and on about breeding. Under orders, obviously, as breeders control the NZ industry, but are failing hopelessly in their own game.
These breeder pakurangas are behind the ' Donalding ' of jumps racing, because there's no demand for relatives of plodding old steeplechasers at the next yearling sales. When there's the need to breed for greed and speed, and short races for 2 and 3 year-olds.
But in the last 6 years, NZ's thoroughbred foal crop has dropped by an alarming 40% !
THE MEMORIES
Lest we never forget that racing needs losing gamblers to survive. And nothing's gonna suddenly make the world think that boring old NZ horse racing is so cool to bet on. And the deterioration will continue. Unfortunate, but not terribly for members of the Golden Generation:
' I'm not really sad, ' said the jumps racing legend Anne Browne ( 84 ).' Kenny and I won all those races and nothing will take that away.' Officially the late F.K.S Browne and wife Anne won the Great Northern Steeplechase an incredible 9 times.
I suggested to Anne that we feel sorry for the poor bastards who'll never see another Kenny Browne--- ' definitely not ' --- or greats of jumps racing like Dennis Gray, Tim Douglas, Freda White, Baggy Hillis etc, with a special chuckle from Anne when I added a few of jumps racing's legendary larrikins.
And never will the young racing media know the northern region jockeys' rooms of the 1970s. Full of guys with Group One wins in Australia, like R J Skelton, J P Riordan, G R Edge, R W Taylor, R C Lang, G L Willetts, B F Andrews, D J Wyatt, D A Peake and W A Smith, often with R B Marsh, N Eastwood, M R Campbell, B P Thomson and W D Skelton venturing up from the central region.
How blessed to be able to pick the brains of Australian Group One-winning trainers in the north like R C Verner, C M Jillings, I R Tucker, R T Cotter, R F Douglas, L H and R A Robinson, R J Campbell, D J O'Sullivan, F R Begueley, B J Smith, T H Knowles, M E Ritchie and A C McGovern etc. And trying to pick the brains of J W and W C Winder, who weren't as friendly towards the press. Add central districts visitors with Australian milestones like S A Brown, E Ropiha, E Temperton and W McEwan.
Quite amazing to hark back, especially when it's so hard to find trainers as astute these days. Maybe A Forsman and M Walker. And the standard of riding has slipped so badly that only O P Bosson of today would sit comfortably in the jockeys’ room with the Skeltons and co of 50 years back. With the current season unfortunately claiming 2 racetrack deaths, the worst since 2001.
But we have all those amazing memories that would have dimmed if I'd remained a racing journo and had to write about today's rubbish. No regrets about becoming an Astrologer and getting several of the great men above interested. So often it's the only thing that can explain the unexplainable.
And most importantly, many ex-jockeys have sought Astrological enlightenment in these last 30 amazing years. So very important in testing times. And the feedback from these people has been very inspiring as well.
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.”
― Pablo Picasso
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DEALING WITH DECEMBER'S DISASTERS
July 27
One of the joys of the awesome Kiwi childhood for Golden Generation kids was the Boy Scout movement.
Adventures, fun, expeditions and camping, always with the ' Be prepared ' motto. Which was recalled on June 28 when we updated the serious economic problems of China, that's also 5-6 months from their rock bottom. Upon receiving the news, I went straight to the Chinese supermarket in Panmure that stocks the awesome Durian pies.
Durian pies are a very tasty Oriental sweet, made mainly with condensed milk, coconut cream and pulp from the ugly, awful-smelling Durian plant. In a typical, disorganised Asian shop with cardboard boxes piled up hither and thither, and ' $3.99 ea ' crayoned on a box lid. For a packet of 4 carefully wrapped in cellophane, this awesome delicacy is very popular with my Buddhist friends, especially the Monks.
Early June had broken a 2-months drought of Durian imports, and more recently the Chinese proprietor indicated that the next shipment might be 3 months away ! Hark back to a prediction here on December 31, 2022:
THOSE ' FINANCIAL PROBLEMS '
' Next stop was the natal chart of China. A big ouch there, with explosive activity around May and June. A Mars--Jupiter negative is very unproductive and often aligned with job loss.The 2nd House of money and possessions is very involved.
Same era has Neptune--Sun negativity, causing a victim to be gullible, confused, unhealthy and careless with money. House 10 of status and ranking is involved, also the 9th of foreign lands.....
The deterioration continues with a serious Sun-Saturn negative supervising great restrictions in October, November and December. The domains of finance and foreign lands are involved ! '
More harking back to a September 2021 forecast for NZ and
' October 023 has progressed Jupiter assaulting the Sun. November 023 hosts destructive Mars attacking Pluto with Saturn attacking the Moon around January 024.
2023 is gonna be very entertaining. Astrologically, 3 times more serious than either 2020 or 2021 ! '
Then noted that NZ's under-fire Sun resides in House 8, that's about inherited money, and rules House 2, the domain of earned money. All about financial problems, eh ? So last week's announcement was reasonably hilarious:
Numerous factors have collided to see our collective debt burden rise by more than $60 billion in a year. The latest figures show that the grand total rose to $790b from $739b the previous year !
Therefore another visit to the Durian place last week, for more stock. Aware of NZ's serious situation, also with China's ' great restrictions in October, November and December, ' as well as the warfare up around Ukraine. Be prepared is still the motto, considering the possibilities of economic sanctions, lockdowns and the Durian factory going into receivership or getting destroyed by a bomb !
Or NZ's creditors might get heavy and start banning imports from China !
The 3 Buddhist Monks were very appreciative of their Durian pies again at lunch last Sunday, prompting some serious economic discussions. The Chinese shop in Panmure has almost run out of stock now, after some of the proceeds from our recent 26--1 betting coup were invested in the Durian industry.
With the Boy Scout motto in mind, the Monks were reassured that we ain't gonna run out of our number one sweet for a very long time.
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' Neptune confusing ' KIRI ALLAN
July 25
Down on July 17 we were considering the legacy of screen icon Beth Heke, and all the lippy Maori sheilas in politics shooting their mouths off lately.
From which there emerged some Gold:
' Kiri Allan was recently outed as a ' bully ' and took some mental health leave. Of which she will need more, with nebulous Neptune confusing her Mercury until next January.'
Monday morning is always mirthful, then this happens:
' Justice Minister Kiri Allan has resigned as a Cabinet minister after being charged with reckless driving and resisting arrest in Wellington last night.
Allan was taken into police custody on Sunday night after a car crash in Wellington and “is assisting with inquiries”. '
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CBD GUNMAN: WHAT THEY KEPT SECRET
July 24
A nation was allegedly ' in mourning ' after the shooting trifecta in an ugly part ( CBD ) of Auckland last Thursday.
Sure, the victims were obviously in the wrong place, and subject to the Astrological formula for death that I still haven't cracked. But there could only be one appraisal for the ' in mourning ' nation:
GOOD FUCKING JOB
This cultureless, ' in mourning ' nation has political, police and media systems laden with liars, cowards and bullies. Astrology is the only method that gets anything right but there are so many haters. Only a sick bastard could ignore our magnificent prophecies.
We do have occasional errors. 2 of our 3 racing investments this season failed, but the other stormed home, with $26 the return for the fixed-odds eagles among my very happy clientele ! You spent $3 in the season and got $26 back. Or $300 became $2600.
As noted last month, our 2022-23 racing season has been relatively quiet, with Pluto assaulting my own Ascendant and Moon. Pluto assaulting one's Moon can be very disastrous if not managed properly, with few more notable than the Pluto v Moon in 2007 All Blacks' coach Graham Henry's chart. And the amazing 4 years warning of one of NZ's biggest-ever disasters, that Rugby World Cup quarter-final loss to France !
THAT GOLDEN GENERATION
That's when the fight started. After the dirty media scabs of print, TV and radio refused to acknowledge one of the greatest-ever prophecies, I ceased to be a ' Kiwi ' and patched over to be an ' Otahuhu ' citizen. ( See July 21 for Otahuhu ' terms and conditions.')
Now you couldn't swap the amazing NZ upbringing for kids born in the 1940s and 50s. The motivated parents and role models, with minimal television and pubs closing at 6 pm. The empowerment of the trade union movement. The self-employment opportunities, the cash businesses, and the unemployment benefit when you felt like a break. Many countries don't have that, thanks NZ.
Then you get the easy-to-live-on pension, but still no reason to be a ' New Zealander.' The great men who inspired children of the Golden Generation would be turning in their graves looking at the mess today. And feeling sorry for the poor bastards who've put their trust in ' the system. '
Meanwhile, the Champion Racing System will continue the plundering. Still treading carefully, with Pluto's final hit on my Moon eliminating November and December as productive months.
CHRISTMAS CRACK UPS
Since 2019 began, 4.5 years ago, we've had just 17 investments, for 7 wins, with an average win dividend of $12.99 on a 41% winning strike rate !
It's fun beating the cruel system that's breaking so many people. Anyone can join us, as long as you can read, write and count. We've got many options until October, then the 2 unproductive months, that will still be extremely mirthful.
The serious pre-Christmas recession hits-- difficult progressions involving Jupiter-Sun and Mars-Pluto--that I started warning about in mid-2021, are going to be quite brutal for poor, retarded New Zealanders.
Many plurals for a nation ' in mourning, ' remembering that you can't help Stupid if he/she/it doesn't want to be helped !
THE GUNMAN
' Gunman Matu Reid, who died and was responsible for two other deaths in Thursday’s Auckland shooting, had been assessed as being at “low risk” of reoffending by a probation officer. How did that happen? '
Because they forgot to consult the Court Astrologer ! Who would have marvelled at the obvious depression and anger management issues in Reid's natal chart. 2023 would have transits and progressions that would have ensured a ' Fuck no ! ' when Home D was being considered.
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BIRTHDAYS
July 23
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Stephen Lindsay 75 Michael Trinder 74 Kevin Smith 64 Sue Thompson-Brown 63 Julie Krone 60 Jenny Vance 58 Wayne and Bryce Revell 54 Luke Dittman 32
Monday: Vic Douglas 65 Opie Bosson 43 Luke Currie 42
Tuesday: Kalai Selvan 48
Wednesday: Craig Lupton 75 Kathryn Durden 58
Thursday: Peter Gelagotis 56 Corey Argue 43
Friday: John Letts 80 Lee Curtis 61 Maryanne Brosnan 57 Fiona Long 52
Saturday: Dermott Weld 75 Brian Wood 71 Kim Hickey 51
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THE GREAT POLYNESIAN REVOLUTION
July 21
Polly the Polynesian from Otahuhu makes the most awesome pineapple pies.
I discovered this wonderful Samoan lady at the Otahuhu Thursday flea market. Inside, selling those half-moon shaped pineapple pies that I so vividly recall discovering in December 1988. While doing canvassing work for a soft drink company in Otara, with a 17 year-old workmate named Roy Lange, son of then Prime Minister David Lange. Whom Polly remembered as a very good man.
One cold, wet Thursday morning recently I received a phone call at 6.30 a.m. The WTF ? happened to be Polly the ' Pie Fala. ' She who wakes and bakes at 4 a.m, to tell me that all her pies have been taken, except for my standing 4 order, so she won't be going to the market. Instead she'll deliver them personally before 8 a.m.
Sure enough, Polly rocks up at 7.40 a.m with the hot pies. 7.42 a.m there's ' Come and get your breakfast, bro' ' to a Samoan neighbour. Who's just as likely to leap over the fence with a feed of Povi Masima. Over the same fence some 10 years back, a 7 year-old Indian girl offered a plate and TOLD me that she wanted some more Guavas from my tree.
' And I'll get you some of mummy's cakes ! '
This is a normal in the region known as the Chocolate Triangle, encompassing Otahuhu, Otara and Mangere. Full of Polynesians, Asians and Indians etc, trying to preserve their traditions and cultures. They think kindness, family and community.
THE REST HOME CULTURE
I'm a member of the Buddhist community, another wonderful place where it's hard to question a request. You move this, carry that, you take that up to the Monk. Give the Monk a ride over to the Mangere Temple. Take all this food home. Endorsing this beautiful culture to a Laos man got ' And you guys don't look after your old people ! '
' Yes we do,' was the reply. ' We dump them in rest homes.'
You go to a rest home in Otahuhu to see an old racing mate. Polynesian lady directs you to a door where another Polynesian lady shows the room where Mr H and 7 others are gazing at the television. All palagi. I sought further opinion from an Ethiopian mate who worked in a Balmoral rest home.50 in her side, a Chinese and Indian each and 48 whites.
So I can return to the Laos man with ' No, only 90-something per cent of them get dumped in rest homes.'
The great culture of respect, family and kindness drags many great sportsmen back from overseas life, especially to bring their children up in the region, and care for their elders. Names like Vainikolo, Mealamu, Wiki, Carmont, Vahafolau, Tuivasa-Scheck etc.
And I marvel at the contrasting cultures in the media and horse racing, where your goodness is gauged on your ratings, or the number of Group One wins you've gathered !
JOHN HOPOATE'S MASTER PLAN
The great man was concerned, like many wise Tongans, about their young being led astray by the evils of palagi society. And dreading the day when the new-age, palagi media role models--the drunks and drug addicts with depression problems, and horrific parenting fails--might replace wisdom and respect.
J Hopoate won a Rugby League World Cup with Australia and became their heavyweight boxing champion. In 2017, the father of 11 summoned Australia's leading Tongan player, Andrew Fifita and the NZ equal, Jason Taumalolo with a plan.
We get all the best Tongan players to represent their homeland, and keep our culture alive. No problems there and in November 2017, the Tongan team beat NZ for the first-time ever.
2 years later the Mate Ma'a Tonga coach, Australian Kristian Woolf, was sacked after he and J Hopoate had opened a big can of worms in the governing body's finances. The entire team staunchly backed Woolf, and he was reinstated. Just a few weeks later, Tonga gained maiden wins over England and Australia in consecutive weekends !
AND THE SAMOANS
Eccentric Tongan fans were on the world stage, with their street parades, flying flags and gridlock. With Otahuhu's main street closed one Monday afternoon, requiring 8 stationery police cars to block feeder roads.
Naturally their Samoan brothers and sisters followed, and Otahuhu was one of many happy places last year. Toa Samoa, also containing many who'd patched over from Australia and NZ, gained their maiden win over England and made the RLWC Grand Final !
It’s the same with rugby teams, and plenty of Polynesian women are in the internationals of both codes. They are prouder than ever of their cultures, thanks to J Hopoate's master plan.
A Tongan lawyer mate agreed that ' I couldn't go to my grave without meeting Hoppa. ' Suggesting help from his cousin, the media liaison officer with Mate Ma'a Tonga, who'd been a classmate of mine at Mt Albert Grammar in 1970.
' Tell Hoppa about the ( Tongan ) flag on your car , ' was further advice. 2 phone calls, a name to mention at the gate and I'm at their closed training session. Shaking Hoppa's big hand, eventually asking the serious question: Would I be the first white man ever to chauffeur a Buddhist Monk in a car with a Tongan flag on top ?
Hoppa couldn't answer, he was laughing so much. As do many when they notice a senior palagi citizen in a little blue car with the red and white flag on top.
Now the trademark Polynesian laughter is not encouraged by the New World Order. Mr Rothschild wants all to be as gloomy and miserable as his media headlines.
He would rather the masses ate KFC or McDonalds instead of Polly's creations and Povi, and have them worshipping ' power couples ' like Brooke Howard-Smith and Amber Peebles ( in NZ ) instead of deep thinkers like Hoppa and Polly.
Polly Pie Fala missed last week's market, so I phoned her. No 4 a.m start today, more like 4 p.m, and she phones up at 6.30 pm, just taking the pies out of the oven, with an e.t.a of 15-20 minutes.
25 minutes later, in driving rain, 4 warm pineapple pies in a bag ' and a little treat below them ' ---- punnets containing 4 freshly-baked scones with jam and cream !
Share with Indian and Samoan neighbours, of course, but not the English air hostess. She'd flown off to Perth that afternoon, missing her pineapple pie debut for the 3rd consecutive week !
Polly was very sympathetic, but next week Ms frequent flyer was home and very impressed with the first taste.
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MONITORING MARAMA DAVIDSON
July 17
Beth Heke has a lot to answer for.
Beth, played by Rena Owen, was the victim in the iconic NZ movie ONCE WERE WARRIORS. All about the drink and violence culture of the Maori. Beth got plenty of beatings from Jake the Muss ( Tem Morrison ), most notably when she refused to cook him some eggs.
That was nearly 30 years ago. When Maori women, as one of Beth's sympathisers claimed, were supposed to just keep their mouths shut and their legs open. Times have changed, and there are many lippy Maori sheilas following in Beth's footsteps and shooting their mouths off these days.
Pollies like Marama Davidson, Nanaia Mahuta and Kiri Allan in particular, as well as Wellington mayor Tory Whanau. This one's appearance in last November's Annuals is looking very good:
' Mahuta, Nanaia:
Erratic behaviour and energy restructuring from Uranus-Mars attack with March, June, Sept, Oct, Dec crucial. Major Pluto-Jupiter career change 024. '
Definitely a candidate for a sacking, maybe even a smacking if she refuses to cook someone's eggs. Kiri Allan was recently outed as a ' bully ' and took some mental health leave. Of which she will need more, with nebulous Neptune confusing her Mercury until next January.
Unfortunately I was unable to locate birth information for Ms Whanau. Obviously she would possess some dynamic aspects, after infamously leaving a Wellington restaurant inebriated enough to forget about paying the bill ! ( They didn't cook my eggs properly ? )
But there's a storm warning for Marama Davidson, already slotted in for the November 2023 Annuals. She's got Pluto whacking her Mars next year, the aspect that's already supervised major reversals for league coach Anthony Griffin and rugby's Beauden Barrett in 2023 !
And last year was doing same to rugby league's Reece Walsh and Brad Fittler, as well as jockey Leith Innes.
' Davidson, Marama:
Polly in need of supervision, and time out, with Pluto-Mars attacks in March, June and Jan 025. Neptune strain April, Sept.'
DEVLIN'S DERANGED EX
The angry women syndrome isn't just confined to the wahines, for palagi females can be just as uppity. All because of that phenomenal prophecy about the extreme weakening of the male, from Pluto's tour de conservative Capricorn between 2008 and 2024. Once upon a time the respected male, whose wage could support the family from an own business or the strength of the trade union movement. The interim has supervised the creation of many wimps and wusses.
2 winters back I was marvelling at the viciousness of Ms Andi Brotherston, the deranged, estranged ex-wife of troubled broadcaster Martin Devlin. She had reacted very badly when reminded of a quote from Murray Deaker ONZM about my stunning prediction on his protege Devlin's major problems way back in 2003. Plus I had a mid-2021 warning about Devlin needing ' gardening leave ' and ' monitoring ' over the next 2 months. Angry Andi's reply on Facebook was Gold:
' Fuck off Don. The way you try and make money out of people's pain is disgusting.'
Rather notably M Devlin tried topping himself during the recommended ' monitoring ' phase. If there was any ' people's pain ' involved, I certainly didn't make any money out of it.
With NZ's predicted massive turmoil for November and December 2023 tracking very nicely, there's gonna be a lot more angry people.
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BIRTHDAYS
July 16
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Royce Dowling 84 Jamie Phillips 57
Monday: Graeme Rogerson and Camilla Parker-Bowles 66 Gary Cossey 53 Phil Turner 39
Tuesday: Gavin McKeon 44 Jason Peake 52 Sean Campton 51
Wednesday: Cherie Curtis 62 Michael Coleman 54
Thursday: Thomas Russell 41 Paddy Bell 35
Friday: Nina Carberry 39
Saturday: Ross Fisher 83 Tom Hughes 57 Jay Misbah and Varma Ramhit 40
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OUR $26 WINNER
July 14
My punting clients received an email on Wednesday around dinner time.
' Trainer Jim Collett has a rare buzz tomorrow evening.
He has a horse racing at Cambridge at 4.28 pm, paying $26 on Fixed odds.
Cambridge M2 R8 N7 So The Fox '
And it slaughtered them ! Slow away, rear to turn and flew home to win by a length. With a formline of 088 ! On the tote the dividends were $18.10 win and $3.90 place. All Wednesday afternoon I was cursing the slow TAB, awaiting the fixed odds. The $26 was appreciated and clients instantly emailed.
That was actually only our 2nd investment for the season. As noted last month, Pluto's been harassing my Ascendant last year and Moon this year,: ' There's some easing in July and possibilities in the spring, but full-on plunder after January 2024 when I'm to be enhanced by all kinds of Uranus and Pluto positivity for 2 years. To continue our amazing take outs: '
Under Pluto harassment I encounter bad luck. When the trainers slotted in for awesome days don't line up. That all changes when Uranus and Pluto start being helpful or ' there's some easing in July '
The once noble industry is rooted. Their media and managers despise Astrological magnificence, which enhances the thrill of our plunges. Anybody with an anti-establishment attitude is welcome to join us.
SO THE FOX in blue and white colours, slow away.
https://loveracing.nz/RaceInfo/51488/8/Race-Detail.aspx
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FREE: MILLIONS OF RACING HISTORIES
July 12
Back in 1966, at Ruawai Primary School, my teacher was a horse racing fanatic named George Tooman.
As was I, and becoming the teacher's pet was a formality, with my father's first cousin Wally Pratt training one of the country's champions of the era, Tatua. Some favours, like sneaking across to the headmaster's house to watch Tatua win in front of the Queen Mother at Ellerslie, the first-ever race televised live in NZ.
92 year-old George was recently moved into care and an email came from one of his children, suggesting I might like 5 boxes of old racing books and things. Definitely, except the 5 boxes were 8, and laden with amazing history. Hundreds of racecards, dating back to the Otahuhu Trotting Club's Summer meeting at Alexandra Park, Epsom on February 19 and 23, 1927.
GARRY ' MASTERMIND ' EDGE
Many are the contemporaries with wonderful memories on Facebook's Horse Racing People page. Where it was only natural to mention my recent discovery of the racecard for the Cambridge Jockey Club meeting at the old Cambridge track, on Saturday, November 7, 1959.
Instant recall from a jockey who was a childhood hero, winning many races on Tatua for 2nd cousin Wally, including the 1962 Great Northern Derby:
Garry Edge don that was the last day gallops were held on the track i won the big race on old salt for my old boss wallace townsend he was in tears when i came back to weigh in because after all those yrs training there it ended like this
Don Murray Garry I'll keep that book as a collector's item. Old Salt won the Mervyn Wells Handicap, no riders here for that race, Golden Seaman trained by Terry Alcock at Pukekohe was 2nd and Brightson Meyer's On Demand was 3rd.
Garry Edge don ho choy ridden by bill smith won the last race bill winder trained
Don Murray Jesus you've got a memory Garry Edge. You'll probably remember that in Race 8, Maungatautari Handicap, other riders were H Rauhihi, G Edge, B Andrews, G McLiesh, Benny Craig, R Leggett, R Forbes, G Willetts, D Wyatt but the writing is bad, 2 names I can't decipher, but Garry Edge will probably remember, they rode for J L McDonald and L W Ford.
Garry Edge cremovana tony pericich
The memory ! That was nearly 64 years ago !
In the meantime-- thousands of racecards from NZ, Australia, Singapore, Macao, England, Ireland etc, many annuals and biographies, and plenty of racecards and books on harness racing--- are looking for a home.
For anybody who wants them, in my lounge some 40 metres from where the great stallion Carbine used to operate. Collectable from near the Sylvia Park motorway exit, murraydon42@gmail.com
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THOSE ' rudderless young men '
July 10
' Alarmed experts have sounded warning for the mental and physical wellbeing of Kiwi children after new research revealed our kids are spending about a third of after-school time on screens.
The high rate of screen time is exposing youngsters to cyberbullying, harmful sexualised content and inappropriate advertising for sectors such as alcohol and gambling.'
Poor today's kids. When you consider the fortunates born between 1938 and 1958, the Golden Generation with revolutionary Pluto in Leo, that empowered them to change the evil ways of racists, warmongers and broadcasters, and make a much better world. The Golden Generation had parents who'd experienced a World War or 2 and the Great Depression of the 1930s. We can remember when there was no television, pubs closed at 6 pm and ram raiders were exclusive to sheep stations.
The interim has seen drastic changes in the role model scene. Today's kids have parents who've learned to worship mentally-ill broadcasters, the cowards, liars and incompetent fathers with serious substance abuse issues. Names like Holmes, Veitch, Devlin, Deaker, Garner, King etc. Many parents have been replaced by ' counsellors.'
Imagine having mothers who drooled over things like Susan Wood, Jayjay Feeney or the late Charlotte Dawson ?
It's full-on amusement in NZ, and still 4--5 months away from the peak of the 2023 recession. Unbelievable skyrocketing in youth crime stats involving ' rudderless young men, ' as we recall the epic warning here in January 2008. When previewing revolutionary Pluto's movement into the Capricorn sign in March, 2008: Including:
' But the scary piece relates to the massively changing role of the father figure, as the family unit slowly disappears and marriage becomes just another episode in life's great soap opera for many.
Naturally there will be a massive increase in the numbers of rudderless young men lacking direction, with no-one to guide and teach them in time-honoured Kiwi male tradition how to drink beer properly and the correct way to watch a rugby game.'
And when Pluto finally leaves Capricorn late in 2024 and claims Aquarius as his home for 20 years, there shall be an unbelievable generation of zombies. The ' whatever ' generation, wobbling around beneath their headphones, squinting into that thing in their left hand. Remember that Aquarius is opposite Leo in the Zodiac, so its new product will be the opposite of the Golden Generation.
There will be a minimum of innovators, deep thinkers and revolutionaries. Robots and computers will replace many humans, with less owning a home and even less having their own business. Humans will be monitored and tracked and cashless society will be a formality.
As we know, Astrology specialises in certainty, and getting it right, which doesn't happen too often elsewhere. With yet another certainty being that, even amidst the universal negativity, Pluto will always be making positive aspects. The upcoming 20 years in Aquarius shall greatly assist the water-bearer's best mates like Libra and Gemini.
There will be a generation of Zombies, just some will be luckier than others.
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BIRTHDAYS
July 9
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Tuesday: W Jock Thomson 72 Luke Dempsey 27
Wednesday: Judy Lawson 51
Friday: Paul Eddery 60 Robert Hannam 57 Terry Moseley 56 Jim Byrne 52 Hugh Bowman 43
Saturday: Sheikh Mohammed and Paul Perry 74 Lorna Woods 40 Sam Fieldes 32
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AIDAN RODLEY-- LIAR OF THE AGES
July 7
The cowards of NZ's pathetic racing media are their normal useless as morale in the once noble industry keeps finding new rock bottoms.
They needed a handout from the TAB's new partner and more dipping into reserves to maintain the stake money levels, basically to keep a few more of the ' good horses ' from heading offshore.
Of course they are assuming that the world is going to suddenly find betting on 3rd-world NZ horse racing attractive. While betting turnovers have been consistently tumbling over the last 12 months, with the last week of June 2023 producing one of the biggest turnover disasters in history.
5 race meetings in that week had turnover drops from last year, notably by 94%, 36%, 32% and 31% ! One other had a small increase.
That's bad, but to be expected with the tedious content on Trackside Channel and the heavy concentration on trying to boost the rapidly declining breeding industry. It's too boring for normal humans, with public perception at an all-time low because they simply don't trust the rapidly diminishing, incestuous family that can't seem to get anything right.
They tell too many lies, especially where ' certainties ' are concerned. And some can't even bullshit properly, like the rapidly-ageing, Trackside Channel lifer Aidan Rodley, who claims to be of November 5, 1982 birth on Facebook !
No way, so more investigation was necessary. The idiot forgot to shred his paper trail, and his stupidity was confirmed in a biography elsewhere !
' I left the Aoraki journalism course in 1997 and went to the Ashburton Guardian, where about a quarter of my role was racing. Then I went to the Taranaki Daily News. '
So Rodley finished the journalism course around his 15th birthday ?
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MAGIC MUSHROOMS: AUSSIE WAKES UP
July 5
I was stunned when the Afghani fellow handed me the pool cue.
Didn't we lose the last game ? ' No, you sunk the last 4 balls,' one of the blonde girls reminded me. Did I really ? ' Yes, we saw it. You are very wasted. '
The Continental Hotel, Broome, North-western Australia,March 1979, drinking orange juice and enjoying magic mushrooms on my last night in sub-tropical paradise. Dangerous in such a state, when I couldn't tell the difference between a pink and a black and I had a pocket full of cash. So I would nip home to stash it, in the boarding house beside the nearby War Memorial Park.
Suddenly I'm running through trenches, surrounded by gunfire and explosions. Ducking for cover, clutching an imaginary rifle and amazed at how close the bright yellow flashes were. A giant orange sun exploding over Roebuck Bay. Then rushing home to warn my housemates about “ the war out there ! ”
“ Did Matt give you some mushrooms ? ” asked the tall indigenous girl.
So that's what it was. Fellow NZer Matt had supervised my magic mushroom debut that evening, and I was a very outtavit pool shark in the pub. But those hallucinations were something extra.
Like LSD, magic mushrooms stir the imagination and take you deeper into what you’re considering. The wrecked Japanese zero fighter plane and a large cannon from World War 2 in the memorial park had taken me into a war zone.
MARMALADE SKIES
Flashback to the awesome LSD parties of 1975-76. I'm sitting under a table in the kitchen gulping marmalade with a dessert spoon. Or thinking I was, just very inspired by a similarly-coloured pile of fire logs nearby.
While mad Charlie was in the lounge, pleading with somebody to fetch his gumboots. He was barefoot and the floor was a sea of broken glass ! Or so Charlie thought, after staring at an empty glass and getting very imaginative.
We were on the same page as John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and their Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds trip that created this !
' Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes '
I have often wondered about the plant that ' God ' must have created, being used to assist the mentally-ill and criminally-inclined. Australia have finally woken up, and that's a step in the right direction:
' Australia has become the first country to classify psychedelics as medicines at a national level in an attempt to address mental health illnesses - with one prominent New Zealand ED doctor saying they could potentially be used here.
The change comes as studies into how psychoactive drugs can impact mental illness are also underway in New Zealand.
Australian psychiatrists can now prescribe MDMA and psilocybin to treat PTSD and treatment-resistant depression to assist therapy sessions, starting July 1.
Psilocybin is found in Magic Mushrooms, it has been used for centuries in native South American religious rituals, alongside other organic hallucinogens and psychedelics.'
THOSE TROTTING HORSES
Back in the 1960s, revolutionary USA thinker Tim Leary was promoting ' tune in, turn on and drop out ' and focusing on the robots of society, the Monday-Friday tragics. Those using around 10% of their brain in normal life, so the narrow of mind were having vacations at a special resort in the Caribbean and taking their LSD trips.
Think of all the heavily-stressed, angry Aucklanders. Probably using 5% of their brain these days. Those going through life as the trotting horse wearing blinkers, the media scabs, sceptics and ' mental health advocates ', the slaves locked into the daily 3 or 4 hours of commuting. Helicopter them to the northern Coromandel or East Cape or the bottom of the South Island.
Gazing at the ocean, surrounded by nature, with mind altering devices like LSD or the Magic Mushrooms which are in NZ. Much more than 5% of the brain will be used.
' Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's gone. '
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (Remastered 2009) - YouTube
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THE LEGEND OF REECE WALSH
July 3
Being naughty is very normal for people with Venus and Uranus complications in the natal chart.
Freedom and excitement are 2 of life's most essentials for possessors of this aspect. Normal relationships are impossible.
Especially when the degrees are very tight, for rugby league bad lads like Reece Walsh and Manu Vatuvei, and rugby union's late Sione Lauaki. Also disgraced jockey Jason Waddell, and 2 of the most renowned relationship rogues in recent Royalty, Princess Margaret and Princess Diana !
Add Sir James Wallace, the 85 year-old NZ rich-lister convicted of sexual assault who finally lost the name supression battle.
Walsh produced a beauty recently when he clearly called the referee a ' cunt ' and earned a 3-games suspension. He was long ago identified as a treader of the fine line between genius and lunatic and made a sensational debut in the Annual Prophecies of www.donmurrayastrologer.com in November 2021 !
' Walsh, Reece:
Many upsets for NRL young gun with Pluto attacking his Mars. Feb, June, Dec notable.'
The ' many upsets ' included getting dumped by his partner after some cheating. She and their baby wouldn't be accompanying Walsh to NZ in 2023, so he broke his contract with the NZ Warriors to stay in Brisbane near his daughter. There was also a matter of cocaine possession.
R Walsh is big on family, with a rare stellium ( 5 planets ) in the Cancer sign and terms like protective, nurturing and volatile. With Cancer's normal mood swings and the emotional roller coaster for he who turns 21 on July 10.
Long ago the similarities were noted that R Walsh has with other Cancer sun signers born in Oriental Horse years like 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002 etc. Many uncontrollables here, like footy bad lads Kieran Foran and James O'Connor, boxer Mike Tyson, Auckland underworld legend Petar Vitali and currently incarcerated Melbourne horse trainer Tom Hughes jun etc.
Walshy's really turned his form around in 2023, for which there is a reason. His Mars position ( Cancer 27 ) was getting hammered last year by Pluto in unfriendly Capricorn. Pisces and Cancer are more compatible, with inspirational Neptune in Pisces enhancing that Cancer Mars of R Walsh in 2023 and next year until early 2025 !
Then there'll be more fun and games. Uranus in Taurus assaulting R Walsh's Venus in Leo through 2025-26 will supervise more drama and sudden changes of life.
As you would expect with a restless, roller coaster Cancer Horse.
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BIRTHDAYS
July 2
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Bob Jury 87 Mick Dittman 71 David Skelton 65 Kody Nestor 33
Monday: Barry Pelling 70 Jason Missen 47 Amy Skelton 42
Tuesday: Grant Young 59 Mark Forder 54 Lance McFarlane 44
Wednesday: Alwyn Tweedie 77 Bob Challis 67 Russell Caddy 65 Larry Cassidy 53
Thursday: Alan Jones 83
Friday: Shirley Hunter and Wayne Lacy 57
Saturday: Matthew Faber 58
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WHY J MAC FLOPPED AT ROYAL ASCOT
June 30
NZ Herald
20 June 2023
' New Zealand’s superstar of the saddle James McDonald says being rated the best jockey in the world is more important in the build-up to Royal Ascot than it will be on the track this week.
The world’s most prestigious horse race meeting starts just outside London at 1.30am (NZ time) on Wednesday, and while no New Zealand-trained horses are competing, McDonald is in high demand, set to ride up to 20 horses over the 5-day meeting.
They include Australian sprinters Coolangatta in tomorrow’s Kings Stand, the same race McDonald won last year on Nature Strip, while on Saturday, he partners favourite Artorius in the Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes.'
It did not happen. From 15 mounts, J Mac managed just one second placing. No surprise, considering the ' around July ' factor in last November's Annual Prophecies !
' McDonald, James:
Champion jockey facing major personal changes from Pluto-Moon meeting around July. Pluto-Mercury and Neptune-Mars issues also make Jan, Feb, March, May and Aug crucial.'
BILLY SLATER BUNGLE
We know how amazing Astrological prophecies are, but June did bring a rare error, to keep the snivelling, scowling sceptics on life support. From last November:
' Slater, Billy:
Much confusion and indecision for the Queensland coach from Neptune anti his Node and Sun. Saturn attacks on Mercury and Jupiter ensure that March, April, July, Aug, Sept, Oct will be stressful. '
Billy's cane toads have sealed State of Origin, leading the NSW cockroaches 2-0. Obviously other areas of his life are affected, but an error has been registered.
Of course, Astrology is still way in front of the sceptical scabs, 25--2, in the 2023 showdown.
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CHINA ‘ DONALDED ’ AS WELL
June 28
This upcoming, confidently-forecasted recession is gonna be a ripper.
Just a follow up to those awesome prophecies on the beginning and end of the Covid era. And it's going to be fun teasing that percentage of cowardly, hate people who'll never be convinced. Of course you can't help stupid, even when he's had nearly 33 years of hard evidence !
Among Astrology's many wonderful attributes is the versatility. With such a varied bunch featuring in the stunning predictions for 2023 so far.
From cricketers McCullum, Williamson, Stead and Kohli to league star Cleary and Indycar legend Dixon down to the pollies like Wood and Robertson and the headline king ' Harry ' etc. Oh, and the other king ( Charlie ) and his ' major reversals in family matters ' !
Also NZ's recession, and the champion jockeys---Pateman's disqualification and J Mac's flop at Royal Ascot !
Then I receive a message from a very generous foreign investor, wondering if I'd made a prediction on this mob ?
' China’s economy is tanking.
The world expected it to bounce back from the pandemic. Exports were supposed to boom. Investment was supposed to explode. Instead, Beijing’s best-laid plans appear set to implode.
Industrial output. Property financing. Infrastructure spends. Foreign investment.
A string of economic assessments have all come in well below expectations. '
Add the unusually heavy rainfall in May, which local officials said was the worst disruption of the wheat harvest in a decade.
My very last epistle of 2022 ! ( Note the ' explosive activity around May, June ' )
' 2023:CHINA ' DONALDED ' AS WELL
December 31
' Back on October 24, it was revealed that the USA is reasonably ' Donalded ' for late 2023. Joining Australia and NZ in the No Win Bin. With Britain's new prime minister also suffering a pair of chaotic Uranus transits next year as well ! '
Also:
' Next stop was the natal chart of China. A big ouch there, with explosive activity around May and June. A Mars--Jupiter negative is very unproductive and often aligned with job loss.The 2nd House of money and possessions is very involved.
Same era has Neptune--Sun negativity, causing a victim to be gullible, confused, unhealthy and careless with money. House 10 of status and ranking is involved, also the 9th of foreign lands.....
The deterioration continues with a serious Sun-Saturn negative supervising great restrictions in October, November and December. The domains of finance and foreign lands are involved ! '
Next please.
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NO ' SUB ' STITUTE FOR ' TRAVEL ASTROLOGY '
June 26
I've always stressed the importance of checking the planetary situation before travelling.
' The search for the missing Titanic submersible has ended in tragedy, with Coast Guard officials saying it suffered a “catastrophic implosion” that killed the five passengers on board.'
Obviously none of the unfortunates above did any Dieu diligence with the local Astrologer. Because when you're being empowered by awesome Pluto and Uranus trines etc you're in the right place at the right time. You don't get messed up airline schedules and you don't get hijacked. You meet the right people, and you don't get busted for exceeding the speed limit or shellfish quota !
Journalism in 1979 found a fellow who cancelled his plane trip after a psychic went into trance and saw a large plane resting in snow and ice. The ill-fated Mt Erebus flight that killed all 237 passengers and 20 crew members.
Countless tales, from happy clients too, who've had their blissful holidays calculated. ' Travel Astrology ' was tested in New South Wales, twice, with amazing results.
A hitch-hiking Tuesday from Sydney to Port Macquarie in September 1986 had a negative energy bad involving Mars around 4 pm. I considered the possibility of an accident and decided to test this aspect.
TOO MUCH LAUGHTER
On the northern side of Newcastle, a Mini Cooper-driving youth picked me up and it wasn't long before we were laughing our heads off. His mention of ' rugby league injury ' got me mentioning the fun and games with the touring Australian league team in Auckland last year, when I was night porter at their hotel.
8 team members lining up for a Marijuana shotty; very stoned G Dowling stealing the pudding of very stoned G Conescu; P Tunks strutting round the Queen St stark naked at 3 a.m in July, then a sudden interruption:
' Shit, you're going to Port Macquarie, eh ? '
Yes. He'd been laughing so much he missed the turnoff somewhere and we were heading inland. He was very apologetic and would have taken me back to the main drag but he had a meeting in Muswellbrook at 4 p.m. So I trudged back for 20 minutes to find a hitching spot, thinking of the probable improvement after 4 pm .
Spot on. Around 4.10 pm I scored a primo lift, a tradie who was going all the way to Port Macquarie. And near the very street in which I would be staying with a Kiwi jockey mate and his family, arriving around 9 p.m.
Come February 1987 a bigger goal was set. To hitch from Sydney to Brisbane ( 930 km ) in one day !
Much planning went into this Wednesday, specially selected for wonderful aspects and a major happiness buzz around lunchtime.
AN AWESOME RIDE
Spot on with the early bus to the central railway station, and the train to Mt Kuring-gai, but disaster when a ride had to turn off the freeway at Wyong, where there was no on-ramp !
8 a.m rush hour, I'm illegally on the 4-lane freeway, complete with backpack, trying to thumb a ride. Unbelievably a big Kenworth truck screeches on the brakes, pulls over and starts reversing. I run flat out and leap into the cab to a rare greeting:
' I don't normally pick you bastards up, but I love your bloody hat.' -- a red tam o' shanter purchased in the Scottish Highlands.
This guy would be making 2 deliveries at the wharves in Newcastle and if I didn't mind being a passenger for 30 minutes, he'd drop me near the bridge that heads north out of Newcastle.
At 9 a.m I'm thumbing again, knowing that today's blissful aspects would bring me good fortune and an awesome ride.
A small white car with a kayak on top stops and what an awesome ride it would bring. A loosely dressed, persuasive lady heading up to the Myall Lakes (an hour away ) to join a girlfriend and her partner. She had her own tent and a bag of weed.
Instead of a truckie saying ' yeah, I'm going all the way to Brisbane,' this was my ' major happiness buzz around lunchtime.' The carefully planned hitch hiking record attempt was abandoned.
The principles of Travel Astrology still apply, whether you're using a Mini Cooper, Kenworth or submarine.
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BIRTHDAYS
June 25
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Rodney Quinn 63 Wendy Fraser-Campin 54 Glen Lynch 52 Gemma Sliz 42 Daniel Stackhouse 33
Monday: Harry Green 76 Hayden Tinsley 49
Tuesday: Shane McGovern 66 Mark Zahra 41 Bradley Thomas-Rantall 26 Bailey Rogerson 22
Wednesday: Steven Ramsay 50
Thursday: Peter Tims 59
Friday: Bruce Sharrock and Aaron Huke 57
Saturday: Jim Hely 92 Ray Fleming 73 John McGifford 64
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NZ RACING'S BIG CON JOB
June 23
The NZ TAB's recently-formed partnership with English betting giant Entain has always had a suspicious smell about it.
Now the NZ side is leaving 1972’s legendary skunk of Loudon Wainwright for dead. ( ' Roll up your windows, and hold your nose ' )
There was general, blind euphoria when the $20 million increase for NZ racing stakes for next season was announced. Especially when initially it appeared that Entain's contribution would be $11 million tops. Then the Herald's veteran Michael Guerin had some vague answers:
' While the bulk of the new money comes from thoroughbred racing’s share of the Entain sign-on payment, for taking over the running of the New Zealand TAB, NZTR will also dip into their reserves, believed to be over $20 million, to frontload next season’s stakes.'
How much you lazy scab ? How much did NZTR flops ' Bad Karma Cameron ' George and ' Loose Bruce ' Sharrock take from the reserves ? And how much is ' believed to be ' left in the bin ?
As we know so well, George and Sharrock have been borrowing $1 million a month from reserves for the last 8 of the current season to maintain stake money levels ! Courtesy of plummeting recent turnovers, and there's no indication of any improvement. No surprise if they borrowed another $10 mill to prettify the 2023--24 season.
But it's not as if Entain's clients, or anyone, is going to suddenly find it so cool to start gambling on NZ's 3rd-world racing product.
53 year-old Guerin epitomises the iconic ' stale pale male, ' in his 34th year as a Herald racing journalist. He also works for the TAB, the breeders and various racing clubs and cowers away from anything controversial that might upset his string pullers. For the institutionalised, wage-earning, bum wiper who goes through life as a trotting horse wearing blinkers isn't renowned for bravery.
Poor lazy scab. He's watched, and helped, NZ racing plummet from its importance in society of the Golden 1970s. When I was at the Herald, and writing stories about childhood heroes like gun jockeys Garry Edge, Ron Taylor, Gary Willetts, Rodney Heaslip, Graeme Walters and co. Now we're all Facebook friends, laughing at the tragic state today and thankful for experiencing the Golden Era of NZ racing.
Fortunately NZ Herald decided I wasn't guerinish enough to keep, after less than 4 years. I discovered something a lot more productive.
THE CHAMPION RACING SYSTEM
which could be facing its first losing season in 7 !
Yep, we've only had one investment since the current season began last August. Not really a problem, one treads warily with Pluto attacking my Ascendant last year and the Moon in 2023. There's some easing in July and possibilities in the spring, but full-on plunder after January 2024 when I'm to be enhanced by all kinds of Uranus and Pluto positivity for 2 years. To continue our amazing take outs:
THE AWESOME BANK
Starting deposit $100 into TAB account
current season $00
final balance 2021-22 $2140
final balance 2020-21 $740
final balance 2019-20 $470
final balance 2018-19 $1750
final balance 2017-18 $1000
final balance 2016-17 $1230
final balance 2015-16 $00 ( i.e we lost $100 that season )
final balance 2014-15 $490
final balance 2013-14 $2270
final balance 2012-13 $240
final balance 2011-12 $3990
From a horse racing investment system that went on the market in November 1985. With balances obtained by placing $100 a win on selections from the Don Murray Racing System. It's nearly 7 years since we had a win dividend of less than $3.80. December 2013 had a $28 winner and January 2022 a $27 shot.
' That ain't workin' that's the way you do it
Money for nothin' and your chicks for free '
--Mark Knopfler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTrXjnGGo7w
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SCOTT DIXON'S ' CRUCIAL JUNE '
June 21
Being your own boss is something extra. There's the bliss of working when you feel like it, but it goes to another level with the feedback.
Yesterday, from an Australian jockey, who requested an Astrological enlightenment:
' Thank you, the descriptions of me, my personality traits and my past are really accurate.'
2 years back an Indian client phoned, just to check that I was ' still in the same place,' if they happened to be in the area. 20 minutes later she and husband arrived, with a bunch of flowers for my birthday. And to gloat about the business they'd started in the first year of lockdown, with 40 employees !
Then Mrs Indian admitted the visit was also an excuse for husband to show off the new Mercedes he'd bought her.
A former national sports champion client was very impressed by what the past analysis had picked up, with ' some of it quite scary.'
A 22 year-old Chinese entrepreneur also requested a gloat session. We smoked some weed, and she told me how she'd started 2 businesses amidst the fearful era of jabs and masks. 3 hours later she's ' Fuck, the time ! ' and texted her soon-to-be-replaced boyfriend to come and collect her.
Humans gain confidence from the Astrological connection.
More recent feedback in the mainstream media. Nothing's been going right for Indycar icon Scott Dixon on the track this year. Then this happens:
' Reigning IndyCar champion Will Power shoved Scott Dixon after the two were involved in a crash on Saturday (Sunday NZ time) that severely damaged both cars during practice at Road America.
Dixon, the six-time IndyCar champion, had spun on course and re-entered the track ahead of Romain Grosjean and Power. Dixon allowed enough room for Grosjean to get by, but as Power approached the gap closed and Power couldn’t avoid hitting Dixon.'
Hardly a surprise after the appearance in the November 2022 Annual Prophecies !
' Dixon, Scott:
Gap year recommended for Indycar legend courtesy of Pluto-Sun and Uranus-Node complications. Jan, May, June, Nov crucial, also Jan, March of 024.'
And there'd be a few more humans needing ' Gap year ' recommendations, with NZ to be hammered by the recession for the next 6-8 months !
' Use it, or lose it,' is the Astrological verdict.
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NAILING THIS RECESSION
June 19
Astrology just keeps on delivering.
The recently-declared ' recession ' was being promoted here 2 years ago ! With the late year Jupiter-Sun and Mars-Pluto turmoils heralding the warning to ' Beware the Ides of November 2023 ! '
While noting that those hits can be felt 5-6 months beforehand. Hits like the Jupiter-Sun financial turmoils for NZ around next November.And the violent, unproductive clash of Mars and Pluto in December.
Plenty will suffer and for many there can only be one verdict: GOOD FUCKING JOB.
There are some very nasty people out there. And there is no need to remind the cowards and sick bastards and those filthy NZ Skeptics about Astrology's magnificence. Like the long-range Horse Racing Certainties, as far as 5 years, 4 months and 3 days in advance ? The first-ever ' unbeatable, ' in horse racing's Friday Flash, celebrates its 33rd birthday next month.
As much as 4 years warning of major national disasters and the epic prophesies on Covid's beginning and endings ? And those amazing talkback performances on Radio Pacific, Radio Live, Humm Fm and Newstalk ZB for 18 years, and the ravings of Murray Deaker ONZM ? ( Tempered unfortunately by some of the blatant lies of the media about great prophecies.)
Astrological magnificence helps you understand and prepare for your future. Yesterday morning I received an email from an Australian jockey with career dilemmas. The day before, an Auckland Asian requested assistance with his snowboarding adventures of the winter.
NZ is a nation that cowers away from the truth, and liars become part of the furniture. So many go through life as the trotting horse wearing blinkers. The kind who worships the weirdo ( Kirwan ), that gained a knighthood ' for services to rugby and mental health ' but encourages people to drink the alcohol he markets !
But the kids keep us amused. Their use of anti-depressants is skyrocketing and boys as young as 10 are involved in the rammies that can earn them a gang patch !
Lest we never forget the laws of supply and demand when assessing the state of the nation. Recent headline:
Largest ever NZ drug smuggle busted, year's worth of meth hidden in maple syrup bottles
Smoking P must be just as popular as ever.
That angry Mars-Pluto phase affecting NZ around December has further significance when you consider Auckland's immediate future. Back on February 3 it was noted that confusing, deceptive Neptune would be anti Auckland's Sun this year--until December !
The Astrological advantage is knowing when the bad shit's gonna end, and you don't need to be considering razor blades or the noose. February and March will not be happy for NZ, with many restrictions from Saturn smacking its Moon.
But all shall be forgotten in April and May. A powerful Pluto-Sun progression gets the economy back on track and 2024 will be a lot more productive for NZ.
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BIRTHDAYS
June 18
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Craig Cossill 60 Chris O’Brien 54 Billy Slater 40 Colm Murray 37
Monday : Fred Head 77 Philip Mercer 59 Paula Wilkinson 56 Clinton McDonald 48
Tuesday: Snooky Cowan 62
Wednesday: Norm Sowter and Stu Dromgool 88 Robbie Waterhouse 69 Laurie Paltridge 64 Scott Seamer 55
Thursday: Raelene Whiteside 73 Michael Kinane 64 Wayne Hillis 61 Damien Oliver and Ricky Donnelly 51 Cory Parish 34
Friday: Roly Saxton 55 Teo Nugent 25
Saturday: Tom Wood 33
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ARLO GUTHRIE AT NZ HERALD
June 16
Arlo Guthrie's City of New Orleans ( 1972 ) is one of my G.O.A.T songs.
And I reckon the great man could quite easily adapt his ' Good morning, America ' masterpiece to the NZ Herald:
Good morning, New Zealand, how are you ?
Don't you know me, I'm your morning news
I bring you all the wonderful, happy stories
That'll make you so depressed and wanna hit the booze.
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Night time in the city of Auckland
Herald's preparing stories for the nation to be dreading
A sub-editor is going a bit mental because
You must have ' heartbreaking ' in the heading !
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And you have to have the right photo
as he disses another dud
Then punches the air in triumph
The 12 year-old victim covered in blood !
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Mindless slaves working to con
the many-headed monster of the pit
Journalists in their 50s and 60s
being treated like pieces of shit.
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Good night, New Zealand, how were you ?
Unhappy or did you fly into a rage ?
Get drunk or take anti-depressants to help you sleep
And dream about tomorrow's front page !
'Died without dignity': Rest home patient attacked in final days of life
'Truly horrific': Driver arrested in wedding bus crash - 10 dead, 25 injured
Watch: Shocking moment Brisbane wife mows down cheating husband and mistress in her SUV
Watch: Supermarket worker takes on iron bar-wielding man as retail crime rates soar
Watch: Footage of car fire on SH29 near Tauranga
Watch: Drone footage shows shocking scale of India train crash
Arlo Guthrie - City of New Orleans - YouTube
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' BRAINS WIRED DIFFERENTLY '
June 14
Sick New Zealand reached another low last week with ' neurodiversity.'
' A new podcast launching this week from the New Zealand Herald and Team Uniform, hosted by TV personality Sonia Gray, will explore the complex world of neurodiversity and the many conditions that fall under this umbrella.
The series is inspired by Gray’s own experiences as the parent of a neurodivergent child and as an ADHDer herself - a diagnosis she got only after going through the process with her daughter. She will talk with dozens of experts and people with lived experience to better understand, support and celebrate those whose brains are wired differently.'
Rather ironically, 41 years ago last month there was a conference in a pub near Brighton, England, that celebrated ' those whose brains are wired differently ' !
There was the acting great Sir Richard Burton, then trashing 2 bottles of vodka a day; a wealthy, washed-up acting colleague of his and myself. We formed the ' Moon-Neptune Society, ' to celebrate those born when the Moon was alongside planet Neptune. A textbook description:
' Moon blending with Neptune
You have a tireless imagination and the ability to visualize your dreams and fantasies into reality, if you can put forth the necessary work it takes. You are indeed a dreamer, very much attuned to the world of illusion and mystery. You retreat into your own little world to escape the pressures and hardships of the world. Escapism includes sexual promiscuity, heavy drinking and drug-taking that can be replaced by travel to distant lands. Many in both sexes with the affliction experience unplanned pregnancies. They can ' drop out ' quite easily.'
My Astrological discoveries had us 3 born when the Moon was alongside planet Neptune. So they were very pleased to realise that all of their sins had been predetermined ! Sir Richard's mate even got me to read aloud, in the bar I tended, an Astrological description of his personal frailties ' so all these fools know that I am acting normally ! '
A son of another acting great, Elizabeth Taylor and also Sir Richard's step-son, also loved smoking weed and craved membership of the exclusive society. Declined, simply because he wasn't born in a Moon-Neptune phase. ( Only around 0.83% of the world are.)
Without their knowledge, many others have gained membership to the Moon-Neptune Society. Very notable NZ-borns like bi-sexual, cocaine-using,
Not all get up to mischief. Foreigners like Albert Schweitzer and the Dalai Lama were born when the Moon and Neptune were snogging. The Moon-Neptune conjunction is just one of many formulae for ' brains wired differently.' Great personal intensities and addictions also arise when the Moon is courting mad-dog Uranus, or sad sack Saturn or revolutionary Pluto.
It is obvious that our traits are created at birth. Astrology has found formulae for epilepsy, depression, compulsive gambling, cancer, anger management issues, nymphomania, alcoholism etc . Further study would locate the same for ' ADHD, autism and dyslexia.'
Sick NZ hit yet another recent low with this headline.
' Number of antidepressants dispensed to children and teens jumps 53 per cent in five years '
Obviously these children would have some serious personal intensities in their Astrological charts. Maybe some are eligible for the Moon-Neptune Society ?
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THE PSYCHIC INSPECTOR
June 12
Inspector is the total antithesis of the New World Order slave.
Inspector doesn't read or listen to the news. He doesn't get angry about football matches, refuses to worship any national cry babies, and fears nothing. With no mortgage, landlord, employer or dependents, Inspector can easily distance himself from negative influences in order to minimise idiot contact. Consequently, like many animals and many less humans, Inspector has psychic powers.
Inspector is a neutered male kitten, 4 years old, who boards at my place with another wild one, Daisy, some 6 months younger. Inspector was inquisitive from day one, a man of peace and wisdom, who loves sprawling on the floor surrounded by books. He dreams of emulating his learned landlord.
Daisy is a con woman-psychopath, who bullies and fights and only comes inside for meals, or the couch on rainy, windy days. She has no psychic sense whatsoever.
Early evening recently there was major panic in the neighbourhood. ' Mini ' hadn't been seen for several hours ! And it's almost dinner time.
Mini is an 8 months-old neutered male kitten over the fence, who roams and roves, usually between his owner's place and the Indian couple's next door. After a serious meeting it was decreed that roving Mini must have found a peaceful spot. Like one morning, when I was unloading groceries and stuff, with Dragon blasting out ' April Sun ' on the car stereo.
Next load and who's sprawled on the dashboard, with an ear beside the speaker ? Mini. With one of his 3 common-law wives, Saffron sitting in the back seat. No plans to move until Marc Hunter had finished his tune.
Come the darkness and Inspector makes a very rare appearance at Mini's owner's place. A mew or 2, to get attention, and he retreats to sit on a board, gazing at the concrete wall. ' It was really strange, ' said the owner. ' He reminded me of a Monk, like he was meditating. '
Something moved an Indian neighbour to join the discussion and further her concerns about Mini. Then Ms Simal, gasped. She would happen to be staring at the same small hole in the concrete wall as Inspector, and ' There's Mini ! '
A Royal Commission of Inquiry was completed in 5 minutes. It was decided that roving Mini had found a niche in the garage when the landlord had been, and remained there when the front door was locked. And Mini is too much of a lout to have any psychic ability and know when the landlord was leaving.
Inspector on the other hand, had a vision. From his meditating spot between Chinese legend Jung Chang's WILD SWANS and the memoirs of late racing journalist Alf Kneebone, he sensed that the crazy young bugger from next door was in danger !
So Inspector, the gifted psychic, jumped over the fence to try and alert Mini's owner.
A role model for all humans. Who could start by distancing themselves from negative influences in order to minimise idiot contact....
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BIRTHDAYS
June 11
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Ray Warren 80 David Cormie 66 Tom Waterhouse 41 Shane Phillips 28
Monday: Earl Harrison 71 Steve Cole 59 Wayne Foote 57 Josh Julius 34
Tuesday: Ray Gavin 81 Paul Thistoll 68 Peter Scudamore 65 Rayna Johansson 45
Wednesday: Peter Svendsen 61 Toni Croon 56 Kylie Geran 52
Thursday: Len Stewart 91 Les Critoph 73 Julie Archer 56 Peter Cunningham 42 Corey Brown 47 Mark Pegus 45 Lisa Whelan 37 Troy Harris 35
Friday: Peter Williams 69
Saturday: Martin Park 66 Hadley Searle 42
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MICHAEL WOOD'S ' CHAOS AND REVERSALS '
June 9
The Zodiac's version of the ram raider has been having fun this year.
So many victims of Uranus attacks on various positions and causing heaps of disruption. Notably for the NRL's Nathan Cleary, Brandon Smith and Anthony Griffin; also rugby's Roger Tuivasa-Sheck; pollies Andrew Little, Nanaia Mahuta, Grant Robertson and Vladimir Putin; And the Broil family's King Charlie and Prince Harry !
Many more in the 2nd sentence, from last November's Annual Prophesies:
' Much improvement and advancement for May 19,20,21 borns from Pluto-Sun trine. Chaos and reversals for May 10,11,12,13 persons from Uranus over the Sun.'
Which includes this joker !
Michael Wood ( b 10.5.1980 ) has been stood down as Transport Minister by Prime Minister Chris Hipkins today over failing to properly disclose shares owned in Auckland Airport.
In a statement, Hipkins said he had spoken to Wood this morning and advised Wood that he would be stood down from the transport portfolio “while any remaining issues around his conflicts are appropriately resolved”.
41.5 years of Astrological study has convinced me that our lives are planned. There is no use stressing, it's all been sorted.
Like mad dog Uranus, the bringer of chaos and confusion. He continues his Tour de Taurus and in 2024 shall be moving between 23,24,25 and 26 degrees.
Causing disruption to any position in those degrees of Taurus. And those with May 14, 15,16,17 birthdays. And so on.
The Astrological message: Use it or lose it.
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NATHAN CLEARY'S ' SIGNIFICANT REVERSALS '
June 7
NZ's ' mental health crisis ' has long been a source of great amusement.
The mirth went to another level with last week's revelation that the number of anti-depressants dispensed to children and teens had jumped 53 per cent in five years !
Proving yet again that the gumboot mob and their ' counsellors ' are a failure. Of course the Golden Generation ( 1938-58 ) had ' parents ' in lieu of ' counsellors.'
The gumboot mob would probably recommend this joker for a therapy session !
' Panthers halfback Nathan Cleary is gutted and set to miss the remainder of the 2023 Ampol State of Origin series after picking up a hamstring injury in his side's win over the Dragons on Sunday night.
Penrith confirmed on Monday that the Blues star would be sidelined for up to six weeks, ruling him out for selection for the remaining two Origin fixtures.'
No counselling necessary. Just some cogitation and consideration of the stunner in last November's Annual Prophecies !
' Cleary, Nathan:
NRL star buzzing in April from Uranus positivity but Uranus-Sun negativity brings significant reversals around June and Oct.'
Taking the 2022 Annual Prophecies record so far to 24--1 and a 96% success rate.
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PATEMAN'S ' VERY SLOW AUTUMN '
June 5
Astrology is amazing.
It encourages corner-cutting and beating the system. And it's the only thing that's getting anything right at the moment !
It fits everybody. Like the King of England, a young Indian lady with relationship dilemmas, the alcohol pusher with mental health issues or Australia's greatest-ever jumps jockey are all on the same page. The latest stunner:
' Champion jumps jockey Steven Pateman and wife Jess have accepted an 11-month disqualification for a historic cobalt offence.
The "shattered" Patemans issued a statement on Friday following a decision by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) to impose the disqualification, from June 9.
Pateman and Jessica Pateman were charged by Racing Victoria in 2017 after a pre-race urine test on the horse Sir Walter Scott indicated an excessive amount of cobalt.'
Jockey Pateman, with 436 winners in his CV, hasn't been a dominant force this year and his training operation has had more than 30 successive losers since the last win in March. All sorted in last November's Annual Prophecies:
' Pateman, Steve:
A very slow autumn for the champion jumps rider with Pluto-Mercury complications in April and May. More frustrations in 024 with Pluto attacking Mars as well.'
Everybody gets smacked over by Pluto. The King of England is getting his Moon hammered at the moment, whence all the heat in the ' broil ' family. The key is being prepared....
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BIRTHDAYS
June 4
Birthdays of notable racing people this week:
Sunday: Mike Brown 64 Christophe Soumillon 42
Monday: Simon Ryan 50 Darren Danis 31 JD and Will Hayes 28
Tuesday: Paul Shailer 44
Wednesday: Ron Taylor 82 Neil Coulbeck 72 Rick Cassidy 63 Tom Ryan 39
Thursday: Paddy Busuttin 69 Aaron Tata 52 Dwayne Dunn 50
Friday: Donna Chisholm 66 Megan Liefting 48 Richard O'Donoghue 25
Saturday: Mike McCann 77 Denise Howell 67 Maurice Logue 61
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SIR JOHN KIRWAN'S LATEST PINNACLE
June 2
There was great elation in the offices of Kirwanking Ltd when the news broke:
' Number of antidepressants dispensed to children and teens jumps 53 per cent in five years '
Co-director Sir Johnny Wino cracked open a bottle of his own Prosecco JK14 creation to celebrate. And heaped praise on his partner in the depression-promotion business, medication Mikey King.
' You're a fine man, Mikey,' muttered Johnny. ' Visiting all those schools has been the key, all the kids learning how depressed they're supposed to be.'
Mikey was humble, thanking Johnny and blessed his own good fortune: ' I'm lucky to have this position after my career as a comedian failed. But you've played a major part in getting their parents into drinking your wine, because the more pissed the parents are, the more confused the kids will be.'
' I've been very fortunate, too, ' mumbled Johnny. ' Gaining my knighthood in 2012 for services to rugby and mental health was important. Hopefully they see me as a nice man who cares about everyone's mental health and it should be natural for them all to start drinking my wine.'
( Even if a 2010 study published in The Lancet ranked alcohol as the most dangerous drug in the United Kingdom, surpassing heroin, crack cocaine, and marijuana. That study drew widespread media attention, appearing in outlets like the Washington Post, the Guardian, the New Republic, and at Vox.)
Then an office junior rushed in with a text from Mr Pfizer to medication Mikey: ' Awesome work bro', keep those stats up and make sure everyone's buying my medications.'
THE EXTREMES
Back on May 29 we published a birthdate register and explained how easy it can be to identify certain types of ' depression.'
We listed the peak dates of Mars and Pluto clashes between 1960 and 2020 that cause so many psychological problems. i.e that very destructive Pluto-Mars union was at peak on December 10, 1964. Humans born a week either side would be subject to the drastic life changes---like Johnny Wino Kirwan ( Dec 16 ), nomadic NRL former coach Matt Elliott ( Dec 8 ) and the very disgraced ex-league player Brent Todd ( Dec 5 ). ' October 30 ' in the 1968 list includes another NZ legend of mental illness, Cameron ' Whaleoil ' Slater.
It's only natural that there shall be extremes of behaviour with such restrictions on positive energy. It explains why J Kirwan could go from being one of the world's best rugby wingers to one of the worst coaches. From being a ' mental health advocate ' to an alcohol pusher.
This classic depression aspect has been very common in the entertainment industry, courtesy of the massive highs, lows and drastic changes the Mars-Pluto union supervises---Like George Michael, Brian Wilson, Kevin Spacey, Paul McCartney, Natalie Wood, Ringo Starr, Teri Hatcher, Anna Paquin, Dianna Rigg, Michelle Phillips, Lindsey Buckingham, Donovan Leitch, Meatloaf and Samantha Markle.
The May 29 register of Mars-Pluto victims also includes the NZ ' sex addict ' entertainer currently facing a total of 25 charges, including rape, indecent assault, sexual violation by unlawful sexual connection, assault with intent to commit sexual violation, attempted sexual violation, indecent assault and attempting to pervert justice. He also faces drug charges.
This nasty human has got destructive Pluto and energetic Mars dangerously locked together in Libra at 2 degrees, providing him with an even more fragile ego than Sir Johnny alcohol pusher. And a very restricted future....
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