The pugnacious pernicious parade of protestors who packed a few powerful punches on “good old Will the police horse” last week as they disrupted the International Mining and Resources Conference in Melbourne are presumably passionately powering on to Flemington for tomorrow’s big race.

Those same activists hitting and abusing the police horses will undoubtedly be the same ones protesting against animal cruelty and unable to see their collective’s continual double standards.