Khamsin Warrior: Wyong next Thursday

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Wyong next Thursday

Gerald has nominated KW for a 1600m Maiden at Wyong next Thursday.
The form around his last start looks encouraging. Encosta Fortune who finished a well beaten fourth to KW's fast finishing second at Hawkesbury, has come out and easily won the 1400m Maiden at Kembla today.

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About the Name

"Khamsin" is Arabic for "fifty" and is the name given to the hot, strong, violent winds that sweep across the Sahara Desert from Libya and Egypt for about 50 days each year.

In 'Khamsin' by Clinton Scollard he says about the wind,

'It blasted the buds on the almond bough,
And shrivelled the fruit on the orange tree'
'The tiny fledgling died in the nest;
The sick babe gasped at the mother's breast.
Then a rumour rose and swelled and spread
From a tremulous whisper, faint and vague,
Till it burst in a terrible cry of dread,
The plague, the plague, the plague.
Oh the wind, Khamsin,
The scourge from the desert, blew in'

There is also a "Maserati Khamsin" Italian sports car