Pizza the action: Peda pips rivals at post for prime picker's prize

By Patrick Commins
Updated January 15 2013 - 5:13pm, first published December 9 2012 - 3:00am

WHAT a race! What a year! What a man! Contract manager David Peda has pipped the often-garlanded Doreen Daze to eke out the narrowest of victories and claim an early Christmas prize. His victory was built on pizzas and Coca-Cola, groceries and hardware, fried chicken and frozen pies: the quotidian sustenance of the little Aussie battler. The exquisitely rendered ''Statuette of Shares Race Splendour'' (the Greek goddess of victory, Nike, bespectacled and holding aloft a bejewelled abacus) will look great in his poolroom.

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