In the loop

Notes on the news

Boy that George Pell and his mate God didn’t muck around when those horse racing Pharos started quibbling about access to Randwick Racecourse for the children of Rome did they?
Selective plague as a first shot is pretty hard bargaining and should prove very effective especially when everyone knows of the potential to back it up with the death overnight of every first-born colt.
This has the potential to decimate the 7.2 billion racing industry so we will be looking forward to other industries to take up the slack. Randwick is likely to become a very available and affordable venue so all you promoters who keep raising those septuagenarian acts from the grave for the entertainment of the cashed-up baby boomers should take note.
I know Randwick was never the best, what with its susceptibility to adverse weather conditions, etc, but there’s good value to be derived from taping the emotional space occupied by Randwick in the hearts of these old farts.
I know the potential for electrocution on wet stages or lightning strikes always added to the excitement for me.

Sports

Wow! Does botox count as a drug in sport? My favorite SBS TV program tonight has been replaced with an athletic beauty contest or a beautiful athletic contest I d’no. There’s hot girls with make up and doos, black and white, blonde and brunette running around a track throwin’ spears, all of them from Toyota, to see who is the most beautiful, Miss athlete 2007 that’ll bring them in. If they can just incorporate breast implants they’ll kill the ratings. Woo now there’s some hunkin lads for the girls and gays, this program may take off. Gives the old saying “fast girls” an entirely new meaning.