Everyone in my office and flat has "had a flutter".
(Wages of sin I tell you)

I understand... I am from Indiana where for 80+ years we had a racetrack that was used once a year. Now we use it TWICE a year. WooHoo!

It's mayhem here.

I went out to the TAB (legal bookie) to get some tickets at 10.30 a.m.

It was already jointed. Had to line up for 15 min. to make my punt.

Now it's about an hour to race time.

Ales all around, for ALL my friends!

2 bux on Gluebait.

Hope you got a result festus. Bart let me down, Roman Emperor third last! My fault for taking advice from the mainstream media.

Here's a link to the full race if any farkers are interested. (new window)

Always a buzz to hear the crowd cheer as the horses go past the stands at the first pass, then a real thrill as they approach again for the finish.

festus: It's mayhem here.

I went out to the TAB (legal bookie) to get some tickets at 10.30 a.m.

It was already jointed. Had to line up for 15 min. to make my punt.

Now it's about an hour to race time.

Ales all around, for ALL my friends!

Cheerio, old chap! I hope you don't get stuck in a sticky wicket and your boot wins ten stone! Good luck, bollocks be with you!

T-Luv: Cheerio, old chap! I hope you don't get stuck in a sticky wicket and your boot wins ten stone! Good luck, bollocks be with you!

Are you taking the mickey?

(I think he is taking the mickey).

Hoping for Fark winners in that there stakes. Looks like fun.

Are there wallabies in your paddock?

I know people in this thread are speaking English, but I'll be damned if it's any English I know.

T-Luv: Cheerio, old chap! I hope you don't get stuck in a sticky wicket and your boot wins ten stone! Good luck, bollocks be with you!

^This.

All of Australia shuts down for the day, as does some of NZ. The stock market is even closed. I guess they figure everyone will do enough betting for the day. Shocking victory I must say though.

I miss Barbaro

(insert tasteless Sarah Jessica Parker/glue/MRE joke here)

Yo, Australia, I'm really happy for you, and Imma let you finish, but Saratoga has the best horse race of all time.

Subby, I don't get it. Why would you watch retarded horses run 2 miles?

Since it's Australia, I assume they circle the track backwards. And drunk.

Not a lot of people know this, but the losing horses are ground into a paste that is sold as a commercial product. Originally it was called "Ground Up Sweaty Horses in a Jar" but now it is known as "Marmite."

Might be the Race That Stops a Nation,

but it isn't the Race That Starts a FARK Thread...

Subby needs to go to grammar school.