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(5/4/02 2:16 pm)
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Full Super (ie Good Luck) Story
I usually try to answer email messages from the Bindaree website as soon as possible. They mostly ask about how to start in beekeeping or something similar. So I thought it strange when the following message arrived from a chap in the United Kingdom:
“Hi,
is bindaree a type of bee or an Aborigine word for something?
- thanks.”
I suppose the business Bindaree Bee Supplies could have been a supplier of Bindaree bees, not that I have ever known a strain of bees to be called ‘Bindaree’, but I replied that Bindaree was indeed an Aboriginal word and I gave a couple of meanings I had been given. For example: ‘going back to your original environment’, ‘where you belong’ and ‘a meeting of the waters’.
The chap then replied:
“Thanks Richard,
the reason I asked was 'Bindaree' is running in the
Grand National in the UK on Saturday, I wanted to put a bet on for my
Australian fiancé and wanted a horse with an Australian connection.
- thanks again for your help, anybody looking for bee stuff I will point in
your direction!”
It was now Saturday night 6 April at about 9 pm. The Grand National is held at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool. The most famous horse race in the United Kingdom, it is two and a quarter miles in length and includes some awesome jumps. It was scheduled to start at 3.45 pm on 6 April but because England is 10 hours behind us in Canberra, it would actually start at 12:45 am on 7 April, our time.
I am not usually a gambler but surely this was an omen? I managed to find an online pommie bookmaker on the Internet and it took about 5 minutes to register, open an account with funds from a credit card, and back Bindaree in the Grand National at odds of 20 to 1. The bookie accepts bets in any currency.
I awoke up on Sunday morning to the pleasant surprise that my account at the pommie bookie was substantially greater. Bindaree had won the Grand National! I hope the chap’s fiancé was equally impressed!
My super was full, and that is my full super story.
Dick 
Bindaree clears the last jump in the 2002 Grand National
This article appeared first in the May 2002 edition of the Newsletter of the Beekeepers Association of the ACT.
Edited by: bindaree at: 5/4/02 2:18:55 pm
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