Word: cupping
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...Every year on the first Tuesday in November, Australia pauses at three in the afternoon to watch it's most famous equestrian event - the Melbourne Cup. This year the excitement began prematurely when, on Sept. 18, part of the international lineup of horses was revealed in the daily Sydney Morning Herald. Racing fanatics were not the only ones to pay heed, and some Australian politicians were shocked at this year's contenders...
...horses to participate in Melbourne's Spring Carnival, a series of thoroughbred horse races that are held through October and November. His stallion Bankable is set to start in the $655,000 LKS Mackinnon Stakes race on Oct. 31, and his gelding Mourilyan will race in the Melbourne Cup itself. Both horses are about to be quarantined in England before flying to to Australia. If Australian authorities don't intervene - which some politicians here are saying they should - they are due to arrive in Australia on Oct. 10. (See pictures of Chechnya today...
...some, the answer is clear. Australian Greens Party Senator Bob Brown has said that hosting Kadyrov's racehorses in the $4.95 million Melbourne Cup, could be "the lowest point of Australia's sporting history." Brown is running a campaign to ban the horses from entering the country. "He shouldn't be benefiting from our Spring Carnival. The prospect of his horses winning the Melbourne Cup is nauseating," Brown told TIME...
...With Kadyrov's official income declaration of an $110,000 salary and a 36 square-meter apartment in Grozny, Kadyrov's penchant for racing has at least raised a few eyebrows in the Russian media. A spokesman for Victoria Races said the cost of sending Mourilyan to the Melbourne Cup alone is in the six figures. Kadyrov's spokesperson, Alvi Karimov, refused to comment on any of Kadyrov's racehorses or on Mourilyan's entry in the Melbourne Cup to TIME on Sept. 21. (Read "Killings of Russia's Human-Rights Activists Continue...
...will actually worsen flooding, claims landscape architect Iqbal Habib, one of many eminent Bangladeshi experts opposing it. Much of Dhaka is already ringed by similar embankments. These keep out the rivers (most of the time) but also keep in the rainwater. The city, says Habib, fills like a cup...