Dr turf tips today
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MY FRIEND HENRY MILLER: An Intimate Biography
Henry himself, in his usual elevating style, gets in the first word during a prologue, writing ...
" ... Nothing like a biography, it must be said, has been attempted in this book. Nor even a critical evaluation of the subject's work. All that he has endeavored to do, my good friend Alf, is to recount the happy life of shame we all long to lead, if only in dream and reverie. It is your story, dear reader, as much as mine or his, and if you lack the sense to perceive it, so much the worse for you. For we were all born of the same mother, drank of the same bitter milk, and will return to the same heavenly bosom, wiser perhaps but not sad
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As a racing analyst on TVN and SEN 1116, John ‘Dr Turf’ Rothfield is one of Australia’s leading racing experts.
As a young boy one of John’s earliest memories of racing was Gwen the SP bookie arriving at his home to collect small debts from his mother in the 1960’s. After spending most of his Saturdays with his father at various race tracks around Victoria, by the time John turned 16, he was already betting bigger than his dad.
Better known nowadays as “Dr Turf” or the “Doc”, he can be heard giving his expert opinion on most sporting events across a number of different networks.
Dr Turf realised early on that in order to be the best he needed to learn from the best and luckily for him, he had John Duncan to take him under his wing. Duncan taught Dr Turf how to “bet like a genius” and under his watchful eye, Dr Turf quickly honed his skills and learnt that if you were diligent, prepared to put the time in, and had a mathematical ability, you could bet and win.
Dr Turf gave his first tip on the radio as part of the Punter to Punter team
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Punter to Punter
1980 Australian radio show
Punter to Punter is a 1980s Australian radio show[1] that ran on 3RRR for five years and then on 3XY for three[2] and was reformed in 1990 on FOX-FM as The Punters.[3] The main cast was Mitchell Faircloth as Slim Whittle, John Rothfield as Dr. Turf and Tony Rickards as Con Marasco.[2]
The show grew out of a 1980 racing tips segment on a morning sports show that featured Simon Thorpe and Rickards as Vince and Con Marasco. Faircloth joined them and they got their own show[4] which began in 1981[5] by Thorpe, Rickards and Faircloth, with Rothfield joining as a special guest and soon moving up to being a regular.[6]
Other cast members have included Jason van de Velde as Trevor Marmalade, Tracy Harvey as Tammy Whittle, Graeme Sefton as Young Graeme and David Shephard as Yonny Stone.[7]
References
- ^Kingsbury, Damien (30 October 1981), "From punter to punter, to punter, to punter", The Age
- ^ abBock, Andrew (19 April 1990),
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