With our new lounges arriving on Wednesday, I decided that we needed to move around the upstairs rumpus room to accomodate when our blue lounge goes upstairs for the kids to use. Have you ever tried to move a piano on your own? It's quite an onerous task. Still, with a lack of common sense and some unknown grunt I managed to change it to my satisfaction.
Then it was down to some serious punting. I made ten bets on the day, $2.50 each way on all. I usually put $5 each way, but with more races to bet on (given I had the time to look) I decided to pull back a little. The horses and results were:
- Randwick Race 2 Number 2 - Now You Know (2nd, paying $1.90)
- Randwick Race 3 Number 1 - Secret Liaison (3rd, paying $2.10)
- Randwick Race 4 Number 2 - Neeson (4th)
- Randwick Race 5 Number 3 - Raceway (4th again - probably your last chance...)
- Randwick Race 6 Number 5 - Celts (6th)
- Randwick Race 7 Number 11 - Ethiopia (wins Australian Derby! Paid $18.90 & $4.20!!!)
- Randwick Race 8 Number 9 - Hanks (nowhere)
- Flemington Race 4 Number 5 - Jessica Rose (5th)
- Flemington Race 7 Number 4 - Faster Son (5th)
- Sydney Quaddie, three horses in each race, outlaying $10 for 12.5% return. Got it as well! Quaddie paid $1033, of which I picked up $134.30!!
The kids stayed the night at Chris and Chris', and Helen and I went out to the movies to watch The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, which was just terrific. A wonderful cast and an excellently written script made for a terrific combination. Straight up it is a rating of 4/5, and probably deserves higher.
Given we have been eating out so often, we settled for Sam's Kebabs on the way home, and watched four episodes of The West Wing to complete our evening. Very relaxed and enjoyable.
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