“Ejja, Kenty!”

Published: June 23, 2014 at 8:54pm

And then they say multiculturalism doesn’t work, when Malta is proof-positive that it does.




23 Comments Comment

  1. Mike says:

    Cowlin?

  2. Alex says:

    “Come on, Dover – move your bloomin’ arse!”

  3. Robin says:

    Is it at all healthy for horses to run on hard tarmac? I thought racecourses used a special type of sand or soil to soften the impact.

    • Antoine Vella says:

      It’s actually very, very bad. Apart from the danger of slipping the impact of the hoof with the hard surface shocks and damages the joints of the legs, especially the fetlock.

  4. Sister Ray says:

    Just the sort of encouragement our battered-up washing machine needs when it goes into the final spin.

    [Daphne – It can become a sort of family joke. You can all shout ‘Ejja, Candy’ at it, when it begins to rev.]

  5. Gerson Orsini says:

    Mux flok qida titnejek bin nies tihu hsib hajtek int alanqas ziemel qidin najtu mux sahara bhalek isma mini ilhaq salibek ax at jasal zmien li salibek jilhqulek

  6. MARKUS MARKS says:

    GHADEK MA GHAJEJTX TAQBAD MAN NAZZJONALISTI ?? KEEP IT UP KOMPLI SEJJRA HEKK.

  7. etienne says:

    Ara vera ma ghandekx x’taghmel biex taqbad ma nies li lanqas biss tafhom. Ahjar tilhaq salibek u thalli nies kwieti.

  8. Antoine Vella says:

    I was present at these races, once. I think they were part of a Notte Gozitana, or something like that. There must have been some 15-20 short races and, when they were over, the road surface was literally covered with thousands of sharp scratches.

    It’s just what the newly-built Għajnsielem to Rabat road needs.

  9. White coat says:

    Horse-racing on public roads had been banned. Now this government has gone back to it.

    Very civilised, liberal and progressive. Ta’ wara l-muntanji.

    • Marco says:

      Lanqas taf x’inti tghid, QATT MA KIENU BANNED MHUX VERU U TIGDIBX. Ilhom isiru mijiet ta snin it tigrijiet taz zwiemel u qatt ma gew banned. U titfax dell ikrah fuq il gvern, grazzi.

      • Mr Meritocracy says:

        Ghandek ragun re: il-gvern, Marco.

        Ghax qed jirnexxilu jitfa’ dell ikrah fuqu nnifsu b’mod eccellenti.

  10. SSALIBA says:

    Absolutely moronic. Screw the horses as long as some nut-jobs have fun urging Kenty on.

  11. angele c says:

    Where are the animal rights activists and animal lovers who are so vociferous on Facebook? Whipping horses as they race along tarmac which is so bad for them?

    It makes me sick to the stomach seeing such behaviour. Why is it being encouraged instead of banned?

  12. Mr Meritocracy says:

    Works at Frankuni.

    Pretty apt.

  13. RF says:

    Seems like a collective climaxing session.

  14. Tarzan says:

    For a moment, I was afraid that Kenty might be the name of a child.

  15. Silvio Farrugia says:

    Hi Daphne ! Do you read about the ‘jihadis’ from France, England and other European nations going to war in other strife ridden Arab countries?

    Did you watch the news about STATE schools in Birmingham where they are being investigated about hard-line Muslim teachings?

    Where the Moslem religion is forced on pupils in STATE schools?

    Where in certain places in the U.K Christmas decorations are not being put up ‘not to offend’ the Moslems? Or calling Christmas ‘festival of light’?

    Is that how you and the goody goodies want our country which was never a coloniser to become? Why also is this obsession about filling Malta and Europe with Moslems?

    [Daphne – Silvio, I’m afraid your information is wrong and comes mainly from scaremongering stories in certain types of newspapers. Britain, like Malta and the rest of Europe (and the civilised world) espouses religious freedom. This means that everybody is free to espouse and practise his or her religion, that nobody can be stopped from doing so, and that people cannot be discriminated against because of their religion. You appear to believe that because you are a Catholic, then you are not alien to British culture and that you share a common culture with the British which makes Muslims alien to both. In reality, Catholics are culturally alien to British society, and for half a millennium were treated as rank outsiders after sporadic bouts of out-and-out persecution. Catholics are still viewed with suspicion by many British people and scathing observations about Papists are the norm. Yet there are many Catholic schools in Britain and some of them are very famous indeed. They exist precisely because Britain does not have a law against faith schools, but rather laws which ensure that the freedom to set up and run faith schools is protected. If Britain allows Catholic schools, then it follows that it should also allow schools for Muslims. I happen to disagree with faith schools of all kinds on principle – I think that gender and religious segregation for children at school are bad ideas and give them the wrong attitude for life, in which there can be no such segregation. However, I fully respect the right of people to set up and run such schools, and the right of other people to send their children to them.]

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