pixrox1 Review of Fast Company

Fast Company (1953)

The California horse murders are never old news . . .

[7/10 · 22 August 2020]

. . . as America learned yet again in the past year or so. And ever since Balboa swindled Montezuma on the fifth race at Santa Anita, this not-so-"Golden" State has been rife with equestrian corruption, FAST COMPANY reminds viewers. An "honest handicap horse race" is about as likely to occur in Real Life as a bloodless 15-round heavyweight championship bout, as owners, trainers, jockeys, grooms and exercise lads (or lasses) conspire to create a cynical crime cartel. In the end, the only shred of Honesty that sticks is when the slain nags ooze out from the Glue Factory. (But when I was a secretary, I swore by Secretariat for those hard-to-mend jobs.)