There's been a few great quotes in the past week:

The first is courtesy of the recent saga involving the Written Bloodstock Syndicate (a joint venture between business colleagues Mark Peters and Larry King) and leading Sydney trainer Grahame Begg. The quote comes from Begg (who will lose 13 of his best racehorses including Our Egyptian Raine and Written Tycoon).

"I've been sacked, hammer and tack, by fax"

The second is from Yallambee Stud's Peter Woodard who, when accepting the award for Champion Victorian Freshman Sire for Testa Rossa, took a moment to encourage Victorian owners and breeders to stand by the local product.

"I don't want to be getting postcards from Testa Rossa in the NSW Hunter Valley!"

The third - and indeed the best in terms of dry humour (no pun intended) - goes to Cups King Bart Cummings who today weighed in on the debate surrounding the condition of Sydney tracks.

"The tracks have been extraordinarily hard considering the automated sprinkler system, there must be a demarcation dispute over who presses the button to turn them on because nobody has pushed it for years."