Danehill Is Not Dead

The name lives on ... at a furniture store in Chatswood, Sydney. Thanks to BR for sending the pic. Should be a stack of world-class chairs, beds and tallboys come out of this store, though by the look of the signwriting you wouldn't bet on it. Or perhaps it's named after the village in East Sussex which gave its name to the horse?

Totally unrelated to the above, what an embarrassment the Olympic equestrian coverage has been. One chance in four years ... oh dear.

I had to get my TV specially tuned to receive Channel 7 just for the Olympics. No mature person watches 7, 9 or 10 so I have a bar on my remote just in case I am ever tempted to have a juvenile moment. Channel 7's coverage overall hasn't matched the quality of the sport we've witnessed and they will have paid handsomely for the opportunity not to do better. If you flick on to SBS by mistake, where they show some of the more 'ethnic European' and non-mainstream sports, you might realise that countries other than Australia, the USA and China actually compete at these games. Another thing I'll be relieved to see the back of is the cycling ... after the Tour de France there's only so much more one can take of Phil Liggett.