'Midget Cup' slammed by critics

A piggy-back race with dwarfs dressed as jockeys has been slammed by critics as offensive and derogatory.

Thousands watched the race at a Cranbourne racetrack in Victoria, dubbed the "midgets' cup", as part of Sunday's Cranbourne Cup meeting, Adelaide Now reports.

What do you think of the race — was it harmless fun or just plain ridicule? Share your thoughts below.

Three men raced down a 50m stretch with a short statured person on each of their backs.

The race ended with one "jockey" falling and crashing headfirst into the dirt but he was uninjured.

Victorian racing minister Rob Hulls said he couldn’t understand the point of the race.

"At a time when racing should be fighting hard for that discretionary dollar and fighting hard to get young people back to the track, this type of event does nothing to promote the industry as vital, modern or innovative," he was quoted by Adelaide Now as saying.

Meredith Tripp, a former president of the Short Statured People of Australia association, told the newspaper that events that made fun of short statured people made it harder for them to go through life without being subject to ridicule.

"For a big corporate group seeing some sort of comical side to such an event is unfortunate," she said.

Cranbourne Racing Club said it received no complaints about the race on the day.

Short people revolt, topple the tallees

In a horrific event seen only by those who were looking, the short people revolted. All across the country the shorter members of society bum-rushed those who couldn't see them.
"It was terrible, the door burst open, and no-one saw who came in! The next thing I know, about a dozen people are jumping up and down on me!" said one witness who declined to give his name, stating he didn't know 'who might be listening'. A few victims of the revolt complained about hearing "paxil" mentioned during the melee.

The makers of Paxil have declined to comment.
New recruitment add comes out after Revolt.

In an odd twist to the tale of the revolt earlier today, the military sent out a new recruitment video showing a group of tall men being taken down by seemingly crazed, short, and heavily armed people in uniform. Being heavily edited, we cannot show it at this time.

A man who viewed the video commented on it's apparently unscripted nature.
"Those guys looked like they had no idea what happened!" he said between laughs and gasps for air. He went on to describe the look on one of the men's faces in the video.
"He had this look like, 'Oh my gosh, this is awful. Where did all these AAAAAAAAaah!' Then they dropped him flat and kicked the *Expletive* out of him."
The end of the video had a line about the armed forces and "Be invisible, be feared."

The Pentagon is not commenting.

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