Competition videos from the Portuguese Racing Sardine Club
The British Sardine Racing association (popups) is “dedicated to breeding a better Sardine, revolutionising training methods, and the breeding of both pedigree fish, and Hybrids, such as the Sardine/Shark crossbreed.”
The Living Age (1919): “… eagerly bending over a long, narrow tank on the floor. They were racing sardines, taking them out of a tin in pairs and betting large sums on each race. This seemed to him, however, to give him a chance of …”
Any more? I don’t think Portuguese do this kind of thing.
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September 15th 2009 19:32
[...] but the English have tended to excel at the breeding and training of sporting beasts, including Portuguese racing sardines and, before blood sports fell out of fashion, the game cock. Here’s the full version of the [...]