The comedian Richard Pryor reckoned his cocaine habit was the Lord’s way of telling him he had too much money. Growing up in a NSW bush town in the 1970s and ’80s, where the biggest events were the annual show and the rodeo, there was a similar sentiment about people who were into horses – that their passion for polocrosse ponies, show jumpers and campdrafters would relieve them of their inherited farms, and they’d end up living in their horse floats.
The Canberra billionaire Terry Snow came to horses late in life, in his 60s. “And I was hooked,” he told the Australian Financial Review in 2017. It seems that someone upstairs was keen to have a yarn with Snow about his money.
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