Is it fair to call a Horse a Pig or a Dog?

[Smithy]

I was still there at the time, prufrock. A tale to warm the cockles, watching you in action on the phone that day

You should have kept the earplugs in!

[graysonscolumn]

(PS I wish to point out that Ryders Storm has not won a race since, so we were, in some respects, ahead of our time. The Sportsman Knew)

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Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.

[graysonscolumn]

Which reminds me of the occasions when Mackenzie, Selby & Harris have pulled no punches in their descriptions of unwilling animals, such as:

A complete dog, and hopefully will end up inside one

and

Deserves nothing less than a bullet between the ears

There was an irresolute Belgian-bred performer in the 1990s for whom the write-up read something along the lines of;

"has been spared the fate of being made into Neddy-burgers and is not the least bit grateful".

gc

Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.

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