David Payne is credited with the understatement of the year when he says that his Wyong-bound filly Desert Flame is ‘knocking on the door’.
Hammering more like it, and if ‘form’ counts for anything, Payne will have to start looking for a suitable Class 1 for the daughter of Pride Of Dubai come Monday.
Desert Flame is back in class (and how) after her last start third at Warwick Farm when although well behind, she refused to yield any ground in the run to the line.
“I think he (the jockey) would have been better off letting her stride,’’ Payne said.
The Jets play the Browns this weekend in the Meadowlands.
The two franchises are similar in many ways. Both have seen a lot of losing in recent seasons with plenty of failed rebuilds along the way.
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BAHAMAS Union of Teachers President Belinda Wilson says she hasn’t given much credence to Education Minister Jeff Lloyd’s expectation that face-to-face learning at public schools will begin by February 2021.
Earlier this week, Mr Lloyd told reporters that education officials were looking at somewhere around early February for in person learning, with institutions in New Providence and Abaco likely to start with “blended learning” environments.
However, last month, the minister said schools could reopen before year’s end.
The differing estimates as to when schools will resume in person instruction amid the COVID-19 pandemic highlight that education officials offer much “rhetoric but little action,” Mrs Wilson said yesterday.
example, it was put up to a vote, not one democrat voted for it. so are these just fantasies? okay, are they something to get past, or the something to pander to a base? sean: you know, jeff, you caught this trump wave very, very early with your best-selling book. you examine it now in a little bit of a rearview mirror, although we have a long way to go, but 6 million new jobs, 6 million americans now off of food stamps. the opposite of obama in terms of 13 million americans added over eight years the food stamps, 8 million more in poverty, failed economic policies. you know, we now have the best job conditions since 1969 versus the lowest labor participation rate since the 70s and the worst recovery since the 40s and the biden-obama years. and as dramatic, what has happened. conservatism, when applied, works. cutting taxes, and in bureaucracy, energy
friend, jeff lloyd. all right, lawrence, special correspondent, you are out with the people, got all of that love, i saw the behind-the-scenes glimpse, the hugs, the self he is, the love, i mean, you know, jeff and i are pretty jealous of that, we re just saying. do they like the green new deal? do they like everything free? do they not recognize that we had a disastrous economy under obama, and these guys want to go further left even then him? yeah, i think you kind of described, an identity crisis. i think you have candidates that don t quite understand where america is going, back in the past election, and so they feel like they need this radical approach. but when you talk with people in the streets, although they want this change, when you get into the details of policy, they don t know what s in it. they don t think it can be passed by the green deal, for