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...done roofing,” he says. “But culinary is the first place I’ve been into where everybody’s not f’ed up on something.” Voice full of disgust and regret, he describes a former roofing boss who, high on cocaine, smashed his fingers in a gearbox...
...Cheryl Long, aide to Kentucky state representative DAVID OSBORNE, mistakenly sending a constituent comments she meant to forward to her boss concerning the voter's push for Osborne to support gay rights: "Seriously, these people really can get out of hand! ... This particular group is much worse than pro-lifers! If you reply to Ms. Amanda, make sure you delete my e-mail...
...before the race, but wouldn't it be something if she won? "She's just special - and she's a mare, having a crack at history against the boys," says Michelle. It proved more than a tilt. By the time he and Makybe were "a mile out," jockey Glen Boss knew the record was theirs: "That's the best part of my job, when you're out there and it's just you and her." Still, it was impossible to ignore the roar of the crowd, which, as they surged into the home straight, "was so powerful I could feel...
...remembers only her odd name - concocted from the first two letters of the Christian names of five of owner Tony Santic's female staffers. "When you see them running their maiden at Benalla and coming fourth, you don't put them down as one to watch," says Childs. But Boss easily recalls the first time he rode Makybe, at a track-work session one morning in 2003. The sense that here was something special was almost instantaneous. "It was like getting out of an old bomb into a really good car," he says. "If you asked her to run through...
...Makybe those walls are about to be replaced by paddock fences. Though Boss says he's never seen a horse with her recuperative powers, Makybe was spent after the race. So it seemed fitting that it was on the victor's podium that Santic, the engaging self-made tuna baron from the South Australian fishing town of Port Lincoln, announced to her "20 million owners" that their winner wouldn't race again. The crowd went home lingering over the inevitable comparisons with other track greats - a contest Boss has little time for. "They all have their own stories and they...