Reply With QuoteDidn't know the Rhodes one, I see its an award at Oxford. I'd imagine some of the names on that list would go onto much bigger things.
Schoolers was supposed to be ironic!
Also "roads" is spelt Rhodes as in Rhodes ScholarOriginally Posted by Greg Hando
Didn't know the Rhodes one, I see its an award at Oxford. I'd imagine some of the names on that list would go onto much bigger things.
Schoolers was supposed to be ironic!
gregs post is surely a gee up
Just having a go at me for calling someone out on their woeful attempt at spelling eligible. But all's good
I would like to think that poor spelling and grammar is not an indication of one's intelligence... otherwise I think I'm in trouble! lol!
We're all friends here , whether we are a Rhodes Scholar or a stablehand shovelling (you know what). The thing is we are some of the smartest people on the planet because we all love to be involved the great sport of harness racing. That's all that matters :-)
Thought I might get back to the thread friends. Something else that annoys me-
Horseswhosnamesdonthavespacesinthem !
Breeders that name yearlings and then put them in yearling sales.The new owners want to name the horses ! I know you can change the name latter but thats just more paper work.
Outsiders calling our sport "The Red Hots".
The HRV site starting to call 2 year olds freshmen.
Long gaps between races, people have short atention spands nowadays 25min is plenty of time.
Sprint lanes. ( That should fire a few people up )
Tracks under 1000m.
Don't die wondering !
I love sprint lanes <3 Double sprint lanes are even better!!
And re gaps between races - go to Yonkers on a Saturday night, the floats share the casino car park, if there are cars lined up to get into the casino (ie no car parks) they will literally run the races every 12 or so minutes to get us out of there!! SO hectic when you have horses in back to back races (remembering the drivers all have their own race bikes, you have enough time to grab it off the horse that used it before you, click it onto you own horse and away you go). All the tracks have their own channels there, they run the races when they like, not like here where each race is allocated a time. At Chester one day, for some reason, they were running the races like 20 mins apart and everyone was complaining how slow everything was. The half hour between races here kills me.
Well known Rhodes Scholars here in Oz include the deplorable & totally lamentable policy vacuum that was former PM, Kim Beazley.
Last edited by triplev123; 08-01-2011 at 06:23 PM. Reason: Beasley has a 'z' in it...as in zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
So what you're trying to tell me is that sometimes Rhodes Scholars don't actually go onto bigger and better things?
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