In fact, this very weekend there was evidence of it when no less than 2 South African produced horses and 3 South African produced jockeys strutted their stuff on the world stage in the Gr1 Audemars Piguet Queen Elizabeth Cup meeting in Hong Kong. We might moan and groan, but racing has seen huge progress too. I suppose I’m also writing this with a bit of a background of Freedom Day and all the reminders of how far we’ve come in the last 20 years and the progress that’s been made in terms of our country and our democracy. It’s hard to pick out the real stars and the real racing from all that mish-mash, so our big days and our Gr1’s are treats, even if only for the fact that someone has done the donkey work of sorting out the wheat from the chaff and presented us with just the very best. We now have racing pretty much 7 days a week (weather permitting!).
There are very few people, places and events left that can be regarded as truly iconic, and there to be enjoyed and appreciated in full. Of course, in today’s disposable society with its rush rush rush merry-go-round of life, everything is cheapened, packaged and dumbed down into bite sized, easily digestible, disposable pieces for our ever voracious public to consume on the run. (….and for those of you struggling with veneration, it means something that is revered or regarded with great respect). According to the Oxford English dictionary, an icon is “A person or thing regarded as a representative symbol or as worthy of veneration”
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