Your Letters
16:47 UK time, Wednesday, 16 September 2009
With regard to , it has long been suggested in horse racing that racing a mare whilst in foal can show a marked improvement in her performance. I will point out that mares in foal are forbidden from running after they pass 120 days of pregnancy (gestation period is normally about 340 days).
Some people say it is the additional hormones that improve performance and others that her protective instinct prompts her to run faster. Who knows?
Cheryl, Newmarket, UK
Having just read finding its own food and shelter along the way and without a map, I'm feeling a bit less impressed by .
Alastair, London
Rob Falconer (Tuesday letters) should be more cunning. It would be much better to build a 25ft wall with a trench on the other side. Then, the robot can jump in but not out, so you can capture it and learn how to build your own.
David Richerby, Leeds, UK
I find it that Web Monitor chose to display one of the purple thelondonpaper distributors as an example of something that was traditionally charged for being given out for free.
Rafael, Cambridge, UK
. Really?
Graham, Frome
Re and the ongoing saga of inverted commas in headlines. Does this mean that any pun must now be enclosed in said inverted commas?
PB, London
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