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News.com.au
7 days ago
- Business
- News.com.au
Bargain-basement buy Penpel defeats $3 million filly Ernaux at Warwick Farm
Penpel, a bargain-basement buy of just $20,000 as a yearling, defeated the filly with a $3 million price tag, Ernaux. Racing is a great leveller as evidenced by the result of the Warwick Farm opener, the TAB Maiden (1100m), on Wednesday. The Marc Conners -trained Penpel is only modestly-bred but she is big on ability and raced home to beat her high profile rival by three lengths. • PUNT LIKE A PRO: Become a Racenet iQ member and get expert tips – with fully transparent return on investment statistics – from Racenet's team of professional punters at our Pro Tips section. SUBSCRIBE NOW! 'She's a really nice filly, we have always had a lot of time for her,'' Conners said. 'For a two-year-old filly, she has a massive stride on her. 'I thought she put the writing on the wall last start when she went super (second on debut to subsequent winner Agarwood). 'Today, she was really switched on and did everything right. She got the job done and we will send her to the paddock now and bring her back for spring.'' It's Penpel with a statement win at Warwick Farm in the opener! ðŸ'¥ @ConnersMarc | @aus_turf_club — SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) June 4, 2025 Penpel ($3.20), ridden by the in-form Adam Hyeronimus, streaked clear in the straight to win by a big margin from the fast finishing Ernaux ($12) with Jarrito ($5.50) just over a length away third. Hyeronimus was also impressed by the dominance of Penpel's win. 'She raced well first time out and I was confident she would win today,'' Hyeronimus said. 'I was very keen to let the stable know I wanted to ride her wherever she went.'' But for connections of Ernaux, there was plenty of merit in her effort. She drifted back to near last on the rail and was in an awkward spot on the home turn. Ernaux's jockey James McDonald had to change course a couple of times in the straight before going back to the inside where the filly accelerated through to finish a promising second.
Spectator
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Spectator
Murderous impulses: The Possession, by Annie Ernaux, reviewed
'The first thing I did after waking up was grab his cock – stiff with sleep – and hold still, as if hanging on to a branch.' The opening of Annie Ernaux's essay might suggest that the 'possession' of the title is of a husband's penis. But after our nameless protagonist leaves 'W', her husband of 18 years, it is with his new woman that she becomes obsessed – possessed with a 'primordial savagery'. She is maraboutée, or bewitched. Ernaux writes not in the heat of desire but in retrospect. The translation by Anna Moschovakis is chicly austere. Like concrete poetry, small paragraphs sit adrift on the page; the text is as unmoored as our protagonist. Ernaux won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2022, and her hybrid memoir The Years has been adapted into a staggeringly powerful stage production. The Possession is a microcosmic analysis of jealousy and agony. Our heroine becomes an 'echo chamber for all pain everywhere'. She goes on a 'tortuous and relentless search' through the internet to find the lover and fantasises about committing 'crimes of passion', reflecting that one is more likely to cave into murderous impulses in the evening, much like scoffing chocolate. For the French, the only thing worse than murder is getting fat. What makes her possession possible is the ex-husband. The couple 'maintain a painful bond' as W drip-feeds her information about the 'new woman'. His reasons are especially murky when he gives her a birthday present of a bra and g-string. While she dances on the edge of insanity, she revels in the pain of feeling alive.
