The Thursday Titter XV

A joke recently told to me credited to Joe Palmer, the late racing expert and Racing Editor of the New York Herald Tribune:
A man from Idaho breezes into Kentucky with a six-year-old horse that had never raced before, but which he entered for a race.
The horse won easily and paid a whopping price. The racing stewards did not like the look of the thing and questioned the owner.
‘Is this horse unsound?’ they asked.
‘Not a bit.’ said the owner.
‘In that case,’ asked the stewards, ‘why have you never raced him before?’
‘Mister,’ said the man from Idaho, ‘we couldn't even catch the critter until he was five years old.’