Jason Bonnington

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"Playwrights and script doctors typically live listless existences, endlessly agonising over nebulous narratives and uncompelling concepts.

It all seems such a waste when one night at Melton manifests every perfect portrait that a story arc could need. "

This is the opening to his review of Saturday night
Seriously JB you need a good dose of Laxettes to help pass that Dictionary you swallowed

You should have ditched the first 3 sentences, we might then have been able to overlook a couple of other slips into waffle

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JB still hasn't been able to pass that dictionary. Well it isn't so much his choice of words but rather the 'the waffle'

waffle
noun
1.
BRITISH
lengthy but vague or trivial talk or writing.
"we've edited out some of the waffle"

This is the opening to this week's piece, like last time he could have left all of this out

IN a world where previously predictable values and ethics are rapidly evolving, harness racing stoically holds its course.

In many ways, this game, religiously referred to as ‘the trots’, subconsciously symbolizes an Australian stereotype tepidly fading with time.

Harness racing relishes humility and respect.

In the world of standardbreds, egalitarianism is essential, work ethic is everything and asking for anything, ever, is utterly repugnant.

Taken in context, this expression of what should rightfully be regarded as great Australian values, validates the sport in a way few other attributes ever could.

https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/the...freak-trotter/

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LOL it even permeates his form analysis

"Both this event, the EK Bray, and the Country Clubs Championship later in the evening are desperately beautiful races"

" If you were looking for a break from the bitter and twisted election campaigns dominating our screens at present, this is not your race."

https://www.harness.org.au/punting/p...?keyNum=341522

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Thinks he is Shakespeare. A bogan one at that,

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Oops
You could see the saddle becoming lopsided as the interview went on

https://twitter.com/TheTrotsComAu/st...65079797620736

I have been away for the long weekend and only catching up via replays - was that live to air?

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it sure was!

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Thankfully for Jason and me I don't read his column every week
The enthusiasm of the Mister Hunter syndicate was fantastic to see and as is often the case, a picture is worth a thousand words (but JB will always give us a 1,000 anyway)

https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/art...-celebrations/

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The picture was brilliant and we should be putting it out there big and bold, it probably doesn't even need a caption but I will go with:

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HarnessLink's coverage of the story of Mister Hunter

https://harnesslink.com/australia/sy...-on-the-board/

I don't think JB is going to get Terry Grange's gig at HarnessLink anytime soon

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JB did a nice job on Helluva's win for the Justices

https://www.thetrots.com.au/news/the...a-trots-great/

He drifted off topic a little bringing in how the favourites went and could probably have had a quote or two from John instead or mentioned the fact that he also won the last race the day before at Maryborough but a good read nevertheless