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@bgardiner2000 Didn't forget Big Red's injury - ran out of space. My granddad told me people openly wept with rage and sorrow and seriously called for severing diplomatic ties with USA over Phar Lap's 'murder'. That's what most outsiders just don't get about Australia's love of racing, and its ...

@liverpool5917 What a laugh! Most people's forebears weren't Australian - they were British, and their 'crimes' wouldn't even get a jail sentence these days. That comment is typical of Pommie angst Australian success generates - heaven only knows why. And what on earth has any of this to do wi...

@raekiesha

why should she race over a mile if it's not her distance? That's like asking Usain Bolt to run in the 1500 metres.

What's wrong with you? We're talking about two champion racehorses who run different distances at which each excels.

What's it got to do with being 'hard'? And w...

She's really public property now and carries the nation when she runs. It's wonderful to think that a group of old friends own her and not some multi-billionaire with untold wealth. How Australian is that? First race at 1400, beat the Caulfield Cup winner by nearly 4 lengths, didn't raise a swe...

The judge hadn't been drinking - that's the point. He was pulled over and arrested because he was a minority. As Sam said earlier: he was arrested for driving while being Hispanic.

We might point out that it's not Australians who ranked BC no.1 sprinter in the world or overall no 1 early in 2011. I don't know why the nationality of any horse matters: champions are champions, no matter where they're from. She is still the only sprinter ever to head the list of the world's ...

Surely this scene reflects almost exactly what happened when President Reagan was shot? Didn't the Sec of State claim that he was 'in charge', although constitutionally, he wasn't. However, nearly everyone who mattered was in the Situation Room and the VP was on his way back to Washington.

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First, she's excellent. This mournful song captures the brutality, despair and violence of that magnificent novel, Wuthering Heights, one of the greatest gems of all literatures. She sounds like the lost and longing ghost, Cathy, that she's meant to be. The under-educated will never understand...

Well, as someone has remarked before, Usain Bolt probably can't be classed as a champion until he wins the 800 metres and/or the marathon. British trainers preparing their horses here for the forthcoming Melbourne Cup, say that there's nothing 'at home' to beat her. NB - Australians didn't clas...

Her connections want BC to go to Ascot but are not enthusiastic about HK or Dubai, I hear. The plans are to take her in Perth in December.

As for not using the whip, Nolen never does with BC. The owners have forbidden the use of the whip on 'Nelly'. To date, she certainly hasn't needed it - sh...

That little dog looks like a MinPin, to me (miniature pinscher).

'horrible'? Ugly? The girls are having great fun in this raunchy Creole interpretation of an amusing song. It's no more vulgar than the House of the Rising Sun. Those who say that France can't be 'vulgar' haven't lived there for a few years. I like all of these singers who are satirising ...

Dad's intending to break the strike to earn money to help Billy and return to work much to his older son's dismay. Dad says 'he's only a boy, we're finished, let's give the boy a chance'. Strike breaking was a serious business when the government took on the miners. Billy's dad wants someth...