And as though to make a final, last ditch bid for Country Cup INFAMY, here's one last tidbit about the Bairnsdale Cup Day races I've just discovered:

Some GENIUS in the offices decided to mount these great ****** flags all the way down the straight, on the lawns. That's all very well, except it's like watching the horse race frame by frame, one frame you see the horses, next there's a dirty great flag in the way, next - the horses, then another flag, all the way to the post.

Crash, you live in a helluva place. I don't think any provincial Cup day could lay claim to such a string of incidents. All we need next is the cousins shagging sheep and we've got the lot.