Singspiel burst clear and the rest just burst
Posted in General on 15. Aug, 2010
Singspiel burst clear and the rest just burst.Michael Stoute and Sheikh Mohammed, the winning trainer and owner, formed the bookends at the horse’s head when Singspiel was led in. The former had perspiration about his face, which was due to the weather rather than worry. “He was always travelling so well that we didn’t have a single anxious moment,” Stoute said. “It was a superbly professional display.”All that remains is the final show at Hollywood Park in the Breeders’ Cup Classic, which may be preceded by a prep race over the water. “I’ve loved having him and when he goes we’ll miss him enormously,” Stoute said. “We” will embrace anyone who saw the horse called Singspiel.Today’s York card, page 21. Shaun Young, the Tasmanian all-rounder, will win his first Test cap against England at The Oval.
Young, who has impressed in his debut county season with Gloucestershire this summer, was told his good news yesterday after Australia’s first practice session in preparation for the final Ashes Test, which begins tomorrow. Young played in the victory against Kent at Canterbury after being called up to join Australia’s squad at the end of last week. Mike Kasprowicz has been confirmed as the replacement for the injured Jason Gillespie, while Young comes in for Paul Reiffel.
Devon Malcolm missed yesterday’s England’s practice at The Oval after being given permission to attend a benefit lunch. Malcolm’s absence meant that the England squad gathered in south London was cut to 12, the Glamorgan off-spinner Robert Croft also missing the session because he was due to attend last night’s England Cricket Board disciplinary hearing in Bristol.David Houghton, the Worcestershire coach, is backing his bowlers to come out on top against Allan Donald and colleagues when they tackle Warwickshire in the County Championship derby at Edgbaston today.Houghton is expecting a wicket loaded in favour of the bowlers in a game vital to both sides’ hopes of featuring in the battle for the Championship. Worcestershire are currently the better placed in fourth position – 22 points behind the non-playing leaders, Gloucestershire, and with a game in hand – but a victory for Warwickshire will rekindle their chances.Houghton, keen to leave Worcestershire in a strong position before he quits New Road to become the national coach of his native Zimbabwe next week, said: “I don’t think we have beaten Warwickshire at Edgbaston for a long time in the Championship.”Worcestershire’s former England spinner, Richard Illingworth, could play his first Championship match of the season after suffering a shoulder injury in a Bradford League game at the start of the season, but the former England fast bowler Phil Newport will be out of action for the rest of the season with an Achilles problem.Another former England player, Warwickshire’s opener and vice-captain Nick Knight, is also poised to return after being out of action for seven weeks with a broken little finger.
He will lead the side in the continuing absence of the captain, Tim Munton, while the second-choice captain, Andy Moles, will have a late check on his damaged finger.Second-placed Kent, 10 points behind Gloucestershire with a game in hand, will have their opening batsman, David Fulton, back when they tackle Somerset at Taunton. As with John Osborne, another author to whom he is sometimes likened, on account of his fondness for the dramatic tirade, there was a complicated relation between the public stands and the private neuroses Both playwrights, for example, had severe mother-trouble. Bernhard is often compared to Beckett in the images he offers of deathly symbiosis, compulsion and paralysis, the difference being that, in the former’s work, these states are found within a named and identified state: Austria. Not since the episode in Tom Stoppard’s The Real Inspector Hound – where a pair of drama critics show each other colour slides of theatre marquee quotes from their reviews – has blinkered self-centredness been dramatised more effectively through behaviour with photographs.Yet, for all its still topical subject matter, one would be loath to describe this egregious play as political in the sense of agitating to bring about change. Holler, the camp-commandant-turned-Chief Justice, is no authorial mouthpiece, but a spokesman for everything Bernhard loathed. Still brimming with sentimental nostalgia for pre-war Germany, still blaming practically everything on the Jews, he seems to have learnt nothing from his experiences and is impervious to the irony of a man with his past now fighting, on environmental grounds, plans to build a poison gas factory near his house.There’s a grotesque scene in which he and his like-minded sister leaf through a photograph album, reacting in much the same chatty way to snaps of family trips (“Pentecost in Vienna/ Oh what a lovely time that was”) as to the cheek-by-jowl images of atrocity (“The Jews of Hungary were a tricky case/ It really was scraping the barrel”). Partly, it’s a case of dramatic conflict deriving not from any effective external opposition but from Bernhard’s own divided attitude to his round-the-clock ranters.