HK stews tough

[my miss storm cat]

It's interesting to read this so long after the fact.... and quite sad.

Something that lasted for months, the intricacy of it all..... the Egen connection (jockey who was accused in HK and never returned creating the "need" for the HKJC to change the manner in which they act), the Andy Lau connection (elderly businessman who - like many there - lavished gifts upon those in good favor. Don't laugh... when Brett Prebble won on Bullish in Japan, the trainer, Tony Cruz, bought him a Lamborghini. The HKJC subsequently said a gift that expensive would not be allowed). Daswani... the go-between, the rumors of phone taps....

I mean to read this account or "account" is like saying man O' War was a Horse, David Lynch is a director, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez is a writer. No background here and if it's meant to stir up sympathy it doesn't do a very good job.

Nothingness..... a succession of words that don't tell any of it, that only tell what we already know and have known.

Shame on them.

I don't want to say if i think he's guilty or not. I almost always take the side of the accused.... innocent till proven guilty, right?

Not always though but even still..... sometimes mistakes are made out of stupidity, boredom, temptation.

He was caught with quite a bit of cash but even that... there's a restriction on how much cash one can take out of HK.

Looking back though, all I really can say is that my heart goes out to him now and to his family, that we all make mistakes, and that HK can become... how do I word this? The jocks that go to HK suddenly have such culture shock..... riding on Wednesday (Happy Valley) and Sunday (Sha Tin) and all that temptation and time the rest of the week... money being tossed around like confetti on New Year's Eve, businessmen who had once dominated the no-longer-corrupt HKJC playing nicey-nice with the newly-arrived... I doubt any of us can truly understand the lifestyle changes and the line between right and wrong becoming blurred and possibly non-existent.

Oh well..... my long way of saying that piece was a joke and mere filler and instead should have gone into one of the most interesting and complex international racing scandals of our time.

No matter what i think of Munce, I'll choose to look for and search out the good in people and remind myself that even those who are guilty are not always criminals.

Okay I'll shut up now.....