City-Race Rhein-Main Turf Club
equinics diary
A Light for Joe's Horse Garden
City-Race Rhein-Main
Turf Club welcomes the torch on its way to the equinics in Joe333’s horse garden in the heart of
Hesse/Germany. RMTC reporter JayJay is meeting two members of the RMTC, Joe and platero and
tries to shed light on the dark.
JayJay: Thanks for the nice welcome.
platero: Yes, thanks, Joe for the invitation to the
BBQ with Basil Smash's and other Rum Cocktails...
Joe: ...with SODA AND ICE,ALL YOU NEED!
JayJay: Yes, we have to fear one thing only, the weather...
platero: ah, those Germans always have to lament their
weather!
Joe: Sorry, guys, I really tried hard to make it a
HOT APRIL day in July...
JayJay: ...who is that guy waiting outside in front
of the SOMMERGARTEN entrance, are we expecting more guests?
Platero: Hmm, looks like a postman, hey, he carries a
torch, well, let the equinics begin!
Joe: I hope MR POSTMAN will strike next
Saturday!
platero: Don't worry, you know, “The Postman Always
Rings Twice”...
JayJay: After 10 years of absence RMTC is back at the equinics. What were your reasons to try it again?
Joe: After
our amazing success in the equinics 2002 with the win of our aptly named SIM
TOGETHER in the Native Dancer Sprint and a 3rd place with VIRGIN
LEVER I thought we might never be able to catch up or even better top that. In
the years later I had the feeling we would not have any chance with our team.
platero: This
year I have TAPIRSIM, I hope this last three magic letters in her name
is good sign again, lol. But back then the residency only had less than 32
stables in the last years and my stables went through a really tough time
without any graded win for years; it seemed too difficult to form a powerful
team for 32 G1 races.
Joe: My decision to apply again for participation
was initiated by the success with my home-bred
TOM AND PAP . This 3y old lady gave me so much fun last year with
the first graded wins for my stables.
JayJay: TOM AND PAP, what a strange name for a horse?
Joe: well,
that's an abbreviation for tomatoes and paprika, the German word for bell
pepper, I did cultivate both the same day I made the home-bred.
JayJay: Please explain some more names of your
artificial animals?
platero: I wish I could say it like Joe, for example,
imagine one day I read HEGEL's “Phenomenology of Mind” or the
complete “In Search of Lost Time” by Marcel PROUST and then I go
on and bred those horses, no way..., to be honest I did not finish either of
those books for years, lol. But it's true, I read a lot so I often name my
horses after authors and poets like ADORNO,VENCLOVA, KAFKA, HOLTERLING( a reminiscence of Hoelderlin) or fictional characters as BUDDENBROOK,
BOBBY Z and JEEVES...
And then there is
always music in the air: PRENZLAUERBERG...
JayJay:...yes, JENEREGRETTERIEN..., let's hope we will all have A SUNDAY SMILE after the equinics races...
Joe: …let's call it anEURO SMILE!
JayJay:...
...BBBBBBBBBBBUUUUUUUUUUUZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!
Joe:...TIME LEAK...
platero: Pardon, Jayjay?
JayJay: That's not only music in the air!?
platero: No, you know, we are pretty close to
Frankfurt's Rhein-Main Airport.
Joe: EXTERNAL NOISE!
JayJay: Any other themes on your horse names apart
from veggies and drinks or literature and music?
platero: Arts, I live close to the Museum Embankment
in Frankfurt near the river Main so I sometimes visit an exhibition there, does not matter whether it's old stuff
like COURBET or contemporary one...
Joe: yes, platero is our MAIN RUNNER and off
course, traveling is important here, BALI ADVENTURE...
platero: ABANO, VILLA BALEIRA, PERLE DES
VOSGES...
Joe: KISSIMMEE FL, MARKTL...
platero:... the birthplace of Pope Benedetto XVI, I did not
know that you went on a pilgrimage to Marktl, Joe?!
Joe: Shush! Nobody knows.
JayJay: Reading the Racingpost, Sport-Welt and Paris
Turf is this your way to prepare your team?
Joe: Information is everything, folks...
platero: ...now let's fire the BBQ with the torch and
throw TOM AND PAP, ouch, sorry I mean the vegetables on it...and always take
care that you never parch!
JayJay: ...that's why it's good to have a Green
Spot nearby! Oh wait, who will drive EL POLO home?
Joe: That's that!
all:
Prost! Salute! Cheers!
