Additional Eurocentric Screeds

The New York Times has been doing us a literary service all week, what with Jane Smiley contributing to their “Rail” blog and now the esteemed Bill Barich offering his two bucks.

The Barich piece, available here is in praise of the friendly local bookmaker, legal, of course, on that side of the Water.

The next three are for perspective on this whole Zenyatta phenomenon, plus the rock-hard turf course at Churchill, a major danger to the great Workforce’s possibility of entering, let alone winning, not to mention Midday’s.

Zenyatta, through the bemused eye of the racing correspondent for the Telegraph, a Tory broadsheet: read it at this link.

Workforce’s quandary, as described in the solid proletarian tabloid Daily Mail: right here.

Finally, Midday’s scenario, also from the Mail.

OK. We’ll have a quiz on all this assigned reading later on.