Dear David F.,

I've adapted this one for you from the web:

"It's plain as the face on your nose
The apostrophe goes where it goes
And shouldn't replace
A comma or space
That's something everyone knows."

BTW: My husband worked for an international petro-chemical
company in California whose strict rulings for written
communication were - not to use any punctuation and
the message had to be conveyed clearly and briefly and to
the point. Any new employees who overlooked this instruction
were reprimanded.

Dear Lexi,

Working for that corporation must have been of indefinite duration since one couldn't end one's sentence with a period.

Dear runner,

Once one assumes that has been a creation then one logically assumes a creator. That's a bit of circular reasoning since one assumption implicitly rests on another. One can ask how the creator was created if one assumes that something cannot come from nothing. Then one can ask how was the entity that created the creator created. Then one gets into infinite regression. It is sensible to discard the nonsense of creator and created.

Runner is one of those rare thinkers who considers an infinite regress of load-bearing turtles a simpler and more elegant explanation than a world freely floating in space.

Cheers,

Tony

Then your husband would be regularly disappointed by the frequency of my editing mistakes. Already today I let a misspell of institution get through. Oh, the horror of it!

Doubtless there is a teacher lurking somewhere who might take us all to task for it. Not that I would mind because I have become very casual with my grammar.

Back to the OP, I am no expert on horse racing, having long ago given up trying to force some interest in the Melbourne Cup. Racing is cruel to horses and crime is always associated with it. However there is the occasional nice story, an example being the owners of Black Caviar who retired the horse before she was injured or broke down and will provide a safe green pasture for her indefinitely. Who wasn't a bit choked up by that?

Gambling has always been followed around by corruption, they are hand in hand. The organised crime families from Calabria (N’drangheta) launder their money by putting it on a horse after the race is over and paying a bookmaker for the service. Rugby league on Channel nine has become the Tom Waterhouse show with his sales pitch for match wagers. You cannot clean racing up but it can be pushed into the background with reduced media coverage and some negative publicity. An example is that slow racehorses end up in pet food and as very few horses make the grade that is a lot of animal food.

Dear David F

A new sentence began with a capital and a new train of
thought began with a new paragraphNothing was indefinite
everything was conclusive

BTW when my husband gave notice that he was returning to
Australia they made every effort to convince him to stay