Mr Celebrity Will Star In Cup: Waterhouse

Gai Waterhouse confidently predicted at yesterday's wet Flemington trackwork session that her emerging star Mr Celebrity would gain a start in the $5 million Melbourne Cup next Tuesday. "He'll creep up the order of elimination, as some horses above him won't make it to the race," Waterhouse said shortly before British stayer Carte Diamond had its Cup hopes dashed when it charged through a running rail. "I'm extremely confident we'll get a run, and then he'll be hard to beat in the race," she ...

Killer On The Wing

I had a little bird, Its name was Enza. I opened the window, And in-flew-enza. 1918 children's nursery rhyme IT COULD arrive like the wind and envelop us in its deadly grasp, leaving authorities un-prepared and a population exposed. It may creep in on travellers returning home from overseas, incubating as they quietly move among us, infecting many but killing few. Or it might be detected early and contained, anti-virals distributed and a vaccine de-veloped in time to save lives.