A MAGIC PATTERN JOHN HUNTCHINSON
“You’ve got to accentuate the positive, Eliminate the negative”
As the 1945 Bing Crosby song goes, with backing vocals by The Andrews Sisters, who naturally steal the show. If only the Magic Millions Racing Women’s Bonus had been in their time, ambassadors and all. The Gold Coast would rock to The Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B.
Where was I? Okay. Over several weeks earlier this year, the great Pattern debate received a good deal of airplay over the Internet and other media outlets, as the antiPattern lobby fired the first salvo only for the pro-Patterners, a collective mix of breeders, bloodstock agents and concerned individuals, to return serve in numbers. We will not be waltzing into that debate too far except to examine a couple of the points raised and hoping to take a pragmatic, rather than theoretical, approach to the subject.
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