Winx could run for PM
THE Phar Lap legend has transcended our Australian racing history for 90 years.
The story of our “Big Red” champion horse and his unyielding bond with Tommy Woodcock provided a hero during the Depression years.
His matchless four wins in a week leading up to an incredible Melbourne Cup victory in 1930 will never be repeated.
Shipped to the US, Phar Lap annihilated the world’s best in the Agua Caliente handicap in Mexico being described as the best horse in the world then, the new America’s Man O War.
Phar Lap will always be the yardstick among the pantheon of thoroughbred greats, including racing’s recent great mares Sunline and the unbeaten Black Caviar with 25 wins.
And now we have the wonder Winx, whose four successive Cox Plates along with Maykbe Diva’s threepeat Melbourne Cup victories will never be replicated.
Kingston Town, three Cox Plates, Tulloch and the Mighty Galillee were simply supreme, but behold this Winx.
Winx is equine perfection, with her length of stride, magnificent balance and an accelerated thoroughbred stride rate kicking into an innate ability to push through lactic acid for longer periods than other horses.
All of this reduces her rivals’ resolve of trying to beat her. It simply busts them, grinds them into the turf literally.
The bewitching, inveigling attraction of this equine phenomenon and freakish Winx galvanising and uniting our country and the world is in direct contrast to the political nonsense that the effete political classes dish up every day here in Australia.
The Italy lite revolving coup doors of changing PM leaders, the virtue signalling of our indifferent censorial privileged obscenely wealthy in our inner city CBD southern capital cities dividing and polarising our nation with support for faux morality domestic energy policies that inflict untold misery on those who dine out on three meals of energy poverty every day.
Our politicians and political class have become by any fair human metrics, a national disgrace. They are a bunch of selfserving me- too- ism career politicians married to an instinctive ability to be conformists.
It would seem the appellations of the Sir Humphrey Appleby boffins mostly spawned in the green fields of academe.
This abrogation of responsibility to their electorates by politicians was played out recently in the Wentworth by- election where the not so independent elected MP, Dr Kerryn Phelps, in an exit poll named climate change, detention centres, more funding for the ABC and a national integrity commission as the top four things on her bucket list. Go figure. The rise of populistic, driver reviver parties like KAP and PHON are opportunistic with no solutions pointing to a deepening desperate national malaise where cultural Marxism ( Trotskyism) has been drip fed into a domestic hidden political agenda by our major political battleships.
Emperor Caligula promised to promote his favoured horse Incitatus to the senate/ consul.
This precedent perhaps should allow us to form the Winx party in Northern Australia, with its winkometre as a requirement for membership badge; humility, honesty, unyielding speed, adaptability, loyalty, and as Winx evinced in an unparalleled 29 wins in a row, an ability to deliver.
The delirium of the Cox Plate 2018 crowd aftermath and its adoration of Winx as history was created is something you will never see in our national or state parliament.
The only final acceptances you will find here are a bunch of overpaid cosseted tribalistic donkeys and pulchritudinous political hay- burners who wouldn’t win a maiden in Boulia.
Thanks Winx by the way, you now are my bestest of the best. Facts do not lie, Winx is simply equine poetry in motion. PETER J SMITH,
Rosslea.