A trifecta on the races at Ballarat’s racecourse, Dowling Forest, this afternoon returned approximately $11,500 for a successful investment of one dollar. Trifectas have only been held on the T.A.B. in New South Wales for the past few months.
‘Claws’ is the title of this evening’s programme from the “Last Of The Wild” series. At seven o’clock, on “Willesee”, its host, Mike Willesee, receives a visit from ‘Luigi Risotto’, a character who is portrayed by the Australian actor, Colin McEwan. He is talking about the Australian Government’s plans to buy a cubist painting for one and a half million dollars. He proceeds to point out that the female nude’s derriere isn’t even new because it has a crack in it.
“The Paul Hogan Show” screens for an hour from half past seven. We viewed the progression of the First ‘Silver Jubilee’ Test, on Channel Two, from half past eight. England had scored three hundred and five in its second innings, of which Tony Greig had contributed ninety-one. Australia, in its pursuit of the 226 runs it required, in order to win, had its back to the wall at 6-114 when I retired to bed at a quarter past nine. The normally swashbuckling left-handed batsman, David Hookes, had contributed fifty of these 0ne hundred and fourteen.