Once Upon a Midnight Dreary, While Mike Burke Pondered, Weak and Weary, Over Many a Quaint and Curious Forgotten Post, s/he wrote: --------------------------------------------------------------
> <do.not.send.s...@this.address> wrote: > >Once Upon a Midnight Dreary, While Mike Burke Pondered, Weak and > >Weary, Over Many a Quaint and Curious Forgotten Post, s/he wrote: > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > >>Shocking > >>Crime Scene > >>Mourylan
> >>Not official yet.
> >>Mique > > Doesn't sound like anyone betting here won.
> There's a surprise. The only way I've ever won anything on the > Melbourne Cup is in the office sweep. (Don't know what you call them > in the States, but it's where people pay money to enter and their > names are drawn out of one hat and a horse's name out of another.)
> Next year will be a big year. It's the 150th running of the race.
> Mique
I bet two horses, one across the board and one to show only. Not a sausage.
When I read your original post Mike it was just - Shocking crime scene - that registered and I thought there had been a massive shoot-out at the track or something!
Everyone knows it's a difficult race to bet on - you might as well just pick random numbers. When Australian races first began being simulcast in North America there was an article in the Daily Racing Form about the differences in racing techniques - for the record Aussie racing commentators have the reputation of being the best in the world, it's something to do with a tradition that goes back to the early days of radio and the ability to draw sound pictures. There's a few of them calling the action at some major US tracks - they seem to have an uncanny ability to somehow watch every horse in the race at the same time!
> On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 12:49:29 -0800 (PST), Dave in Toronto
> <dmatthew...@sympatico.ca> wrote: > >I bet two horses, one across the board and one to show only. Not a > >sausage.
> >When I read your original post Mike it was just - Shocking crime scene > >- that registered and I thought there had been a massive shoot-out at > >the track or something!
> >Everyone knows it's a difficult race to bet on - you might as well > >just pick random numbers. When Australian races first began being > >simulcast in North America there was an article in the Daily Racing > >Form about the differences in racing techniques - for the record > >Aussie racing commentators have the reputation of being the best in > >the world, it's something to do with a tradition that goes back to > >the early days of radio and the ability to draw sound pictures. > >There's a few of them calling the action at some major US tracks - > >they seem to have an uncanny ability to somehow watch every horse in > >the race at the same time!
> The good ones are something else, a bit like American auctioneers. > Their memory for racing colours and horse names is quite phenomenal. > How someone not from Australia ever understands them is quite beyond > me. :-)
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The only criticisms I've heard are about the mispronouncing (to American ears) of certains words, there are a number of hispanic jockeys on the North American circuit and the commentators sometimes have trouble getting their tongues around the names - especially when talking at high speed.
> Next year will be a big year. It's the 150th running of the race.
> We wonder if Dick Francis will set a crime mystery to this backdrop.
Trivia: Name the two Dick Francis novels in which the Melbourne Cup is featured.
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Despite liking Dick Francis, I have no interest in horse racing.
I can still remember the last horse race I watched (on TV). I can even look up the date... October 27, 1990. (Isn't Wikipedia great?)
That event (though not that year) also features in the second book with the Melbourne Cup.
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