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	<description>A Guide to Betting on Behaviour</description>
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		<title>The Townsville Cup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’re frisked at the gate and our bottle of water and Diet Coke are confiscated. You’d have to be kidding, wouldn’t you – water banned in stinking hot Townsville? But it might be gin or vodka and the Coke might have bourbon in it. They don’t want punters bringing their own grog. And no one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postcard from Palm Cove</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I see the forecast for Melbourne today is a Min 6 and Max 12. Here at Palm Cove, in the spelling paddock, it is Min 19 and Max 29. Wish you were here. On second thoughts, maybe not.]]></description>
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		<title>Postcard from Carnarvon Gorge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Carnarvon Gorge has long been on my list of must-do walks. We arrive just in time to get a map from information and check into our lodgings – a safari tent. Camping with an en suite. Now that’s what I call camping! The walk is a there-and-back-again, criss-crossing the Carnarvon Creek on stepping stones over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Postcard from Lightning Ridge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ The Missus and I are heading north, like migrating swallows, seeking some respite from the Melbourne winter. Our first stop is Lightning Ridge, outback New South Wales, where Nigel, a childhood friend of The Missus has an opal mine. But it’s still cold – minus two overnight with a heavy white frost.  We lob into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moonee Valley Country Cup Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is my last day for the season and it looks like being a bit of a fizzer. The forecast is for rain all day and the track is a deteriorating DEAD 4. I’m just going along for the colour and movement. Besides, it gets me out of the house. A bet seems pretty unlikely. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taralye Foundation Race Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m feeling fairly average. In fact , I&#8217;m quite ordinary. Well, really, I&#8217;m a bit poorly. My head is full of germs. But there is no point staying at home moaning about it, so I’m off to Caulfield to share the germs around. I&#8217;m stuffed full of cold and flu tablets, but they hardly seem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Ramsden Stakes Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m only here for five races today. As unlikely as it sounds, sometimes other events take precedence in your life over horse racing. Today is such a day. I have to go to a birthday party – and I love parties! Of the five races I only manage to look at the horses in three. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://watchingracehorses.com.au/andrew-ramsden-stakes-day/</link>
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		<title>Flemington Green Fields Raceday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m a bit fearful as there has been rain about overnight and I’m not allowed to bet on Slow tracks. And apparently they have been putting water on the track as well. I hate that – why can’t they just leave it be! The track is rated a Dead 4 but the word from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://watchingracehorses.com.au/flemington-green-fields-raceday/</link>
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		<title>Members’ Race Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mission today, should I decide to accept it, is to photograph Tesbury Jack’s splint on his nearside foreleg. Splint bones are the remnants of pre-historic toes and run down either side of the cannon in the horse. They can get bumped or knocked and the area can become inflamed and swollen, but will heal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://watchingracehorses.com.au/members%e2%80%99-race-day-2/</link>
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		<title>Anzac Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m writing this while I watch the Anzac Day parade on TV.  The ranks are thinning &#8211; there&#8217;s not many veterans left now. My grandfather, Nelson Wellington, was a soldier. Well, how could you be anything else with a name like that? He fought in both wars. He was on his way to Gallipoli on [...]]]></description>
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