It’s the race that stops a regional Victorian municipality, as Bendigo people, desperate for some excuse to get into their finest garments and piss-on like Uni students, watch horses be whipped and forced to run around an oval as entertainment.
To help your day, here’s the Bendigo Standard’s view on the nags:
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Patrick Erin (NZ) (13) – Performance art gone too far as Patrick and Erin are two people inside a horse suit.
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Dal Harraild (GB) (10) – Performance art gone one step further, as Dal is one geezer inside a horse suit holding stilts.
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Lord Fandango (GER) (11) – Doing it for a dare, and probably drunk on scotch, Lord Fandango is going to dance the full course inside a horse suit.
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Sir Charles Road (4) – Sir Charles is with Lord Fandango for emotional support. (Not wearing a horse suit.)
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Sir Isaac Newton (GB) (2) – Been dead for several years. Amazing effort to get this far.
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Furrion (GB) (9) – A type of trough the NBN is drilling to put cables in.
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Master of Arts (NZ) (3) – Sounds better than a degree but still worthless.
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Happy Moment (JPN) (6) – Oh yes. Remember when you were six and you blew out your birthday candles for the first-time without help? This is an incarnation of that memory, vaporizer and shoved inside a horse suit.
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Berisha (15) – Still a fan favourite but past his prime. Pulling good money in the J-League.
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Ormito (GER) (5) – The Japanese art of forgetting crucial details during a testimony.
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Red Alto (12) – An octave above the blue alto saxophone. Used for when you want to get sexy.
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Rezealient (7) – American spelling of resilient.
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Dandy Gent (14) – Performance art gone bad as Dandy has been stitched inside a horse suit and the male horses (aka colts) have found the one opening.
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Barry the Baptist (1) – Not as famous as John, Paul, George or Ringo.
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Sasko (8) – A giant, hairy, up-right, walking, ape-like creature that plays cricket for Bendigo East. Handy left-arm pace. Not likely to trouble the scorers with the bat.
