DRESSAGE FOR DUMMIES

With the 2008 Olympic equestrian events being held in Hong Kong later this year, the government is on a mission to create some interest in equestrian sports. Good luck! Everyone knows that if there's no gambling involved there's little chance residents of the city will have any interest.

One bright idea the bureaucrats came up with was to to flood the public libraries with English language equestrian books. Exciting titles like Deciphering Dressage, Down to Earth Dressage and Training the Modern Jumper have been rapidly filling up the "New Book Additions" shelves at public libraries all across Hong Kong.

I really hope these lovely books are used but I'm pretty certain they'll just be collecting dust for the next few decades in the very underused English language books section.