The horse with a taste for human flesh

In the home straight, Palomba tried to take a chunk out of rival Lucky Lycra’s jockey

From magazine issue: 19 December 2020

Jockey Greville Starkey, known for his unerring mimicry of a Jack Russell terrier’s bark [ANL/Shutterstock]

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