Should we abolish the Royal family?

[Kirkland Laing]

Where would the horse-racing industry be without royal patronage over the years?

Good posting. Horse racing is the shit so I'm all for the Royal Family if it's true that they own all the horses in England. Euro-Horses are shit though, while some American thoroughbreds have been described as 'negative.'

Breeders cup 2009. Fourteen "championship" races.

Europe 6 wins from 30+ horses. USA 8 wins from 150+ horses. Plus you yeehaws all run on drugs banned everywhere else in the world. USA = owned! Fact.

Kirk, my point was about the ridiculous notion that the Queen has an unenviable lifestyle.

The Queen is an independently wealthy woman. She could have buggered off years ago and lived off the interest off her interest and had an unbelievably lavish lifestyle, even compared to the one she has now. Instead she spent every year up till she was 80 doing 200+ domestic engagements a year, foreign tours etc. If that was me I would have done one charity event meeting worthies and saying nice things to unfortunate people then said sod it and been a playboy for the rest of my life. You couldn't make me do one of those things at gunpoint if I knew I could bugger off and enjoy myself instead. So what if the bits in between the endless engagements, endless travelling are nice? They'd be much nicer and more of them for an elected prez.