Ponies Quotes

(Recalling raising his children in the 1970s)There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella (Stella McCartney) said to me: `Dad! You`re Paul McCartney, aren`t you?` `Yes darling, but I`m Daddy really`.

But I went to the University of Texas in the 30s, and while there I learned to ride. Mostly polo ponies.

My daughters have ponies. But they`re busy with other things - dance and gymnastics. It`s great that they`re involved with something that`s really important to them.

(Like the mighty Wall Street Journal`s WSJ.com, with its 461,000 paying subscribers, the Racing Form already gathers voluminous data for its print edition. And no one resembles stock traders more than serious horse players. Potentially, it`s a big business. Of the $14 billion wagered on the ponies every year (movie ticket sales last year, by contrast, totaled less than $8 billion), 10 percent of the bettors staked 90 percent of the money. These are hard-core gamblers, info junkies looking for an edge, and they`re Racing Form readers.) The average person bets $125 a day at the races, ... A Form user bets $500.