A Form Guide For That Even Bigger Race

WHILE Australia stops to watch a horse race on Tuesday, much of the rest of humanity will stop to watch what one American journal calls "a crisis of American democracy". The comparison is as stark as the choice offered US voters. Our election was as nothing compared with the consequences of the US presidential outcome. New York's 139-year-old magazine, The Nation, in endorsing the Democrats' John Kerry, this week put the argument for ridding us all of George Bush with a power and eloquence ...

Weighty Matters: Lining Up Shannon With Today's Stars

Modern top-liners just aren't set the same demanding tasks as their old-time counterparts, and Shannon makes most modern-day "champions" seem like home-town cream puffs.