Talk:Tulloch (horse)

Nationalism
Let's stop this patriotic nonsense. If necessary, we can remove the flag icons, if that helps. Especially worrying is the "Australia's greateset horse ever" type nonsense which seems to appear whenever a horse has NZ connections. NZ would dearly like to claim Gloaming too, but he is an Australian horse. What I find is interesting is that a horse which is purely Australian, like Bernborough is not hyped up, even though he was in the same class as Tulloch. I actually put up Sailor's Guide, who was as famous as Tulloch at the time, and won exactly the same amount of money as Tulloch. Any New Zealander would be very proud to have a horse like Sailor's Guide, especially as he beat Ballymoss - Timeform rating of 136! Look at the hype in NZ over Balmerino, and he didn't even win the Arc. Wallie (talk) 19:48, 14 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Fully agreed! It is time that one-eyed Aussies got over their inferiority complex and acknowledged these wonderful NZ horses as such, instead of producing so much confusion in articles.Cgoodwin (talk) 01:17, 15 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Speaking of Aussies with an inferiority complex, I hope you're not still smarting after your little idea of adding a breeding suffix into each article lead was widely rejected. Ernest the Sheep (talk) 22:45, 19 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks. It is not about nationalism. Lets get beyond this. The introduction should mainly focus on the horse's claim to fame. This is done with American horses, like Secretariat. They concentrate on the horse's career, which "shouts" champion. They do not say "Secretartiat was the greatest horse who ever lived and was a true American hero". This sort of comment is just fake, and everyone knows it. Wallie (talk) 09:58, 16 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Too right it's not about nationalism, well said. Pity your actions don't match up to your words. It is partly as a result of the nationalistic agenda of people such as yourself that a lot of these thoroughbred articles have become a right pig's ear. Ernest the Sheep (talk) 22:45, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * Not true. I see you have taken the flag away. I was about to do that too. I have not tried to introduced nationalism. It is you who have tried to do this, in a false way. It is you who have distorted these articles, not me. Wallie (talk) 11:59, 20 May 2009 (UTC)