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...played golf, soccer, cross-country, softball, track, badminton, and, of course, hockey,” she said...
...track betting on the Cup meet in Victoria alone was up 13% on last year, and people came from everywhere to cheer for the mare as if she were their own. Craig and Michelle Hill looked like locals with their Diva caps, but they drove the 5,000 km from their home in Port Hedland, Western Australia, to urge her on. It wouldn't detract from her greatness if she lost, they agreed 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...
...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 a wall, she'd ask how fast and how many walls...
...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're all special in their own way," he says. "And Makybe's one of the best." Perhaps trainer Harry Telford put it best in 1930 after another spectacular Cup win: "What...
...more health problems down the road compared to boys particularly because they don’t get involved with physical activities when they’re young,” said Troychansky. The day’s main activities consisted of four workshops on nutrition, yoga, body images, and track and tennis, as well as a panel and lunch. Harvard students involved with the Girls’ FitNut program and Project HEALTH ran the workshop on nutrition, which emphasized the concept of balance in a healthy lifestyle. A makeshift scale was used to illustrate the need to balance the energy...