Fathers name features in Taiwan Restaurant Menu

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I was on a business trip with my MD, Peter, in Taiwan, and we decided to have a break from local food and eat at a restaurant in Kaoshiung called the "Pig and Whistle". The menus were tastefully printed on "greyed out" facsimiles of old English newspapers. During a break in the conversation, we started to read the random news stories, and one of them was from the horse racing pages. It featured the winner of a routine race at Newbury in the 1960's, Peter's father, a Newbury jockey! What are the odds of us even reading the background to a restaurant menu, and then finding one's father's name as the featured race winner!
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Date submitted:Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:32:31 +0000Coincidence ID:5303