Writing in Idol Horse, Adam Pengelly wrote a piece on Tom Prebble and how he’s doing today after his life-changing fall and how he’s working himself back to life going on around him .  Mentioned was the support group around him- his parents Maree and former champion jockey and Melbourne Cup winning jockey Brett, former jockeys Tye Angland, and Chris Symonds and the World’s Best Jockey James McDonald rushing over to see Tom right after winning the Cox Plate. Adam painted a pic

It’s deep, yet shallow, sissy, yet masculine, childlike though chilling and giving off a Halloween and Chung Yeung vibe for Hong Kong racing with rather spooky horsey dance moves borrowed from Gangham style by some people in the scary looking empty setting of Happy Valley racecourse. Far better and more “Thriller” if it was filmed at midnight in the Happy Valley cemetery. Especially deep and probing are the thought provoking deluge of naughty “lah lah lah lah lah lah lah lahs

********************* We couldn’t help overhearing a very senior Biggie Small executive with the HKJC, and someone who really should know better, dismiss jockey Mark Zahra’s accomplishments by telling his dinner guest, how “he couldn’t ride a winner when in Hong Kong”.  This rather telling remark was a couple of weeks before the double Melbourne Cup winning rider rode four consecutive winners at Flemington on Saturday’s Victoria Derby Day including two winners for the new God