Getting ready for tomorrow’s Melbourne Cup? Then don’t follow TP Maher’s example, as he reflects on the drinking, gambling and also the horses from Saturday’s Derby Day.
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Crikey’s Spring Carnival form guide: The Melbourne Cup
A Melbourne Cup winner usually means enough money to buy a round of drinks, or if you’re really lucky, to service a week’s worth of the additional debt incurred by any interest rate ride. And while none of the contenders has a mortgage on the event, I’m going for Princess Coup, writes our Professor Punt, Lawrie Zion.
How Fashions on the Field suits Peter Jackson
Could Fashions on the Field — that Derby Day staple and the heart of fashion democracy — have been hijacked by corporates? wonders Jane Nethercote.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
So far this week we have seen three surveys of primary support for the Coalition and ALP. Neilsen has it at 48 to 41. Newspoll says 48 to 42. Roy Morgan’s estimate today is 49 to 39, giving a two-party preferred figure of 57.5 to 42.5.
