THE QUEEN'S HORSE IS A SKAG HEAD
StrumSolo > 23/07/2014, 13:53
You'd think that freely being able to take ketamine without judgement or prosecution would be enough for most horses. Not Estimate though, the Queen-owned winner of last year's Gold Cup has just tested positive for morphine.
Trainer and vet Jim Boyle has tried to explain it away as a simple case of feed contamination, that "ingestion of a poppy-seed bagel or a poppy-seed cake" may have been behind the positive sample.
He would say that though, wouldn't he? Especially if he was trying to neutralise a Royal scandal. Wallace Simpson and Edward VIII, Fergie sucking toes on a beach, Kate Middleton's jugs, even what really went on in that tunnel in Paris; nothing compared to the national uproar were a member of the monarchy found to be shooting up.
Fingers will be pointed and scapegoats demanded. Perhaps the junk-glamourising 1996 Danny Boyle film Trainspotting will be held culpable, and Scotland will find themselves expelled from the union regardless of the outcome of September's referendum?
They'd have no-one but themselves to blame. The Empire!