All Too Hard – Caulfield 23/2/13 Tomorrow is officially Autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, and the weather today, after two weeks of 30C p...

Miracles of Life does a victory walk of the mounting yard after winning the Blue Diamond Stakes This post is named for a song that was cre...

Miracles of Life – photo by Atkins Daily Telegraph The Melbourne Autumn racing carnival really takes off this coming Saturday with Blue Dia...

Black Caviar in her winning rug after the Lightning Stakes It was one of those times when you feel privileged to have been present at an e...

Black Caviar headshot – Caulfield 2/2/13 Can Lightning strike three times? Well, champion mare and Australia’s racing darling, Black Cavia...

The other day – late afternoon – Talya plonked herself down on a patch of sunlight in the living room, as cats are wont to do. Sitting the...

…it has to be The Orphan Master’s Son by Adam Johnson.  When I wrote in my recent review of Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel Flight Behavio...