By Hans Ebert Visit: www.fasttrack.hk
It wasn’t so much a break as an interlude It still seemed incredibly boring and long Felt like a cat on a hot tin roof with Big Daddy Every Groundhog Day just plodded along Over and over and over again…
The only things racing were in our minds Weirdness was flying all over the place We really missed trying to beat the odds Even if it often meant falling flat on our face
But the motors get running at Shatin today When those barriers crash open again Now a Made For Television horse opera It’s the chill out pill for not going insane
Starring an international cast of characters Who’ve come from near and far There’ll be lights, camera and action Heroes, villains and commingling stars
This might sound like a spaghetti western A horse opera with some soap It’s whatever you want to make out of it It might even offer up some hope
The main act is the Zac and Joao Show They won’t give each other an inch The Mauritian Magician will be peachy keen To once again split that duopoly and win
The apprentices will come out guns blazing The Poon Train is like a choo choo Tom Mix The way he hustles and bustles around Often has many of us “trains-fixed”
It’s good to have ol’ Sugar Lips back He’ll sweeten things up quite a bit Metro Warrior with the Zac Attack up Might be his welcome back home gift
Antoine Hamelin has been busy climbing rocks We all have our own ways of keeping fit Like Trackside host Andrew LeJeune He works out with his big selfie stick
Alexis Badel is here for the whole season And eager to get that first winner on the board After that it should be plain sailing Though racing here can often be a bumpy road
It’s always interesting to follow Douglas Whyte And see who does the riding for him More revealing are those he doesn’t use Getting into his good books always remain slim
Putting the pedal to the metal will be Mr Cruz The great Putha Man will ask riders to chill But when he’s morphing into Robert DeNiro Scary visions from “Cape Fear” come into view
Ricky Yiu, last year’s champion trainer Might this season be facing an uphill task The ratings game are always hard to beat There might be a frown behind that mask
Size is someone who matters all the time So laidback you sometimes think he’ll fall But he takes it all in and never misses a beat After all, here’s someone who’s done it all
The Boys Of Winter will be in town later on For three months of joie de vivre They’ll ride their fair share of winners And then they’ll, well, pack up and leave
One wonders about colourful owner Nat Chan And how he’ll wear his carefully coiffed hair Will it be red or gold or have a purple hue? Then again, does anyone really care?
Meanwhile, many questions will be answered Like who will stay and who might go Was Jamie Kah really once heading this way? Do you know something we don’t know? Hmmmmm?
The bottom line’s that racing is back A new season that will be what it is It will also be what you make of it Hopefully not like backing Nature Strip
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