Tuesday, 12 February 2013


Ready, Steady, Cook
Oh dear, poor Clare Balding, according to her recent book, "My Family and Other Animals", dogs and horses have played a central role in her life, but she also admits to enjoying a ready meal or two.
So, following the recent revelations that dobbin has suddenly it seems, become (what many of us who don't quite get "the sport of kings", suspected) a racing certainty to enter the human food chain. Then maybe, the horses in her life have at times been a little more central than she thought.

Sea Pigeon - No Moorhen

It conjures up a rather sick, where are they now of the racing world:

Did Cottage Rake become Cottage Pie, Edredon Bleu - Cordon Bleu, Party Politics - Party Food and Desert Orchid - Dessert.
Fancy a Piebalding?

2 comments:

  1. On the flan or over the (bread) sticks?

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  2. It get worse: When a race horse loses a shoe it's known as Spreading a plate! What an ironic clue to it's post racing future.

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