'Ah' said Raine 'but then the boxers would hide in the corners, that's why they call it a ring'. Sally continued 'Horse racing is rather strange too, my dad goes to watch and he bets money on which horse is going to win, and which ever one he bets on the other one wins'. Raine suggested that he asked the horses who was going to win and then bet on the right one, and it seemed a really good idea to Sally and she made a mental note to tell her dad when she got home. 'Do you have horse races here?' she asked and Raine said 'Oh, yes we have them in the sea, but we don't bet money on who will win'.

'How can you have a horse race in the sea?' asked Sally 'why don't the horses drown?' 'Because they're sea horses, you silly girl. But the shrimps do fall off a lot, not many of them get to the end. You see they can't hold on because they haven't any hands. I suppose shrimps should play football, but they haven't any feet either'.

'Is there a running race?' Sally asked 'I can run pretty fast' and Raine said 'we had a running race last time and one of the cats won, but Thunder, he's the lion who organises the games, said that he was a cheetah so there are no more running races.

Just then Sally noticed a very strange animal standing at the edge of the field. It was black and quite long a bit like a snake but with millions of legs. 'What's that' she asked and Raine laughed 'that's Scolopendra, she's a millipede, haven't you ever seen one before?' 'No I haven't' said Sally fascinated 'look at all her legs, she must have a very long doormat'. Just then Scolopendra started to walk away and Sally squealed with delight 'Oh look Raine' she cried 'her legs are doing a Mexican wave'.

The football match ended and the hippos had won by 104 goals to 37. 'How did the ants score 37 goals?' Sally asked Raine, she hadn't seen the ball go near to the hippo's goal. 'The ants get a bonus goal for every player that gets squashed' Raine explained 'it's usually quite a close game, the ants did well today scoring so few'.

The next event, Sally learned, was the pig race. Ten or twelve pigs lined up together to race around a circular course and Sally remarked that it looked similar to horse racing only pigs were rather unlikely participants. Raine said 'nobody would bet on who wins, it doesn't really matter, the pigs just like to run around and have fun' then she told Sally the names of the ones she knew, one of them was Streaky, one was called Swift, one Danny, and one of them, who was really small, was named Lester

Sally felt rather sorry for Lester because he was so much smaller than the others and when the race started the other pigs soon left him behind. 'Shame' Sally said to Raine 'the big ones should give Lester a chance, he's so small'. Raine took no notice of her and she started calling encouragement to Lester and after a couple of laps all the pigs started to slow as they tired and Lester began to catch up and soon he was passing the other pigs one after the other until he was in second place with only half a lap of the race course to go.

Sally and all the other spectators were getting really excited as Lester slowly gained on the leader who was obviously getting very tired and going slower and slower. With just a metre or so to go Lester hit the front and won the race by a snout. He did an extra lap of honour squealing with glee and jumping up and kicking out his trotters as he accepted the applause of the audience. An enormous cheer went up as the lion announced 'the winner of the grand pig race is Lester Piglet'.

All the animals started moving away now and Raine said 'come on, we must go down to the river now for the paddling race' and Sally followed the deer and all the other animals. 'We have paddling races too' she said to Raine, but she laughed, 'how can people have paddling races? They don't have webbed feet'. and Sally explained that they used canoes. This made Raine laugh even more 'I don't know what kind of animal a canoe is, but I'll bet they can't go as fast as a duck, or even a frog'.