Vale Miller's Guide

World of Sport = Happiness.  

Ah ya doing well Bob, maintain the fish intake.

Carioca wrote: Was that about the time Ron Casey was in charge Bob? I recall big Jack and Lou had a segment , watched it regularly when time permitted ( racehorses, always busy) many laughs fwiw.

Sure was mate, Ron Casey asked me the questions.One question that he asked me that rattled him because I knew the answer straight away was “ who were the five Australian cricket captains who played district cricket for South Melbourne”, It was such an obscure question and I guess he thought nobody would know the answer, however it had been asked a couple of years previously and it had stuck in my mind.
Please do not ask me who they were , I cannot remember where I went to a restaurant six months ago.

Millers Guide is somewhat similar to all the hundreds of racing and sporting books, many are hardbacks, I have accumulated over the years. Time has caught up with books and newspapers. Many years ago I appeared on the old World of Sport on a segment Beat The Champ, at at that time I established a library of sporting books from cricket to golf to racing to tennis to you name it,  but as the years have passed I now do not know what I am going to do with them as my wife says " they are cluttering up the house and when we downside from our four bedroom they will have to go." My sons ( millenniums, who have moved out ) are not interested in such books, I will probably give them to an opportunity shop as I cannot be bothered putting them on EBay.  

Never a comic to be seen in the stables when I was a lad, just Turf Monthly , Racetrack and Sports Novels, they were like a raggedy old hat by the time the young und got their hands on them, a great read, like mums mashed potatoes sadly missed.

In Turf Monthly, there was a great series by Warwick Hobson in the late 70s called the Racehorse Register, potted biographies/career records of 100s of greats and not so greats from Abercorn to Ziema. It's a pity there's no market for a similar type of magazine combining punting and history today.

I have an old tin trunk under the house ( in an enclosed area ) full of them.  Just hope the mice havnt got in and made baby beds out of them.

I sold my old 70s and 80s copies of Turf Monthly on EBay for a good price many years ago, but I've regretted it as well. At least I photocopied some of the articles. 

I’ve got a box full of them and other racing stuff in my shed that were left to me by my late grandfather.
I need to sit down and go through them all one day.

I'm not certain whether this has already been covered, but BetEasy has revived the old Miller's Guide. I haven't seen the print edition but there's plenty of old racing records (full results of major races like the Doncaster back to the first running and others back at least a few decades) at https://beteasy.com.au/millersguide/

Excellent.  

If anyone actually tries this and it works for them please let me know. 

Whoa.  Bandwidth limit exceeded.  Maybe it was supposed to be a secret.  But it is certainly demonstrates that there is audience for the material that was on the site. 

Good news !

Here is a link to Millers Guide

https://millersguide.crownbet.com.au/