The Bridle Be Late

It's Not The Annual Free-For-All Street Derby

Photographs copyright: DAVID McMAHON

Both aspects of this image portray familiar Melbourne sights – a tramcar (trolley, to some of my readers) and a horse and carriage. This is one of the older trams and the interesting thing about this shot is that there is very little to suggest it was shot in Melbourne – apart from the corporate logo on the side of the tram.

And while this was shot several weeks ago, on a warm autumn day, it’s now winter here and business is probably a bit slower for the horse-and-carriage operators. They ply their trade in the city, where it is perfectly legal for them to share the broad thoroughfares with all other vehicles.


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Verse And Worse

Random Wit, Errant Rhyme. Not A Literary Crime

Maxwell Kirby rode in the Derby
But he lost by a nose to a mare called Furby
His saddle and boots went missing at Burbank
So he had to knock on the door of the spur bank

Verse And Worse

Random Wit, Errant Rhyme. Not A Literary Crime

I say darby
You say derby
But who put a carby
In the purple Furby?

Verse And Worse

Random Wit, Errant Rhyme. Not A Literary Crime

Friday night he fixed the carburettor
(The thing he calls ``the carbie’’)
On Saturday he felt much better
And rode the winner in the Derby