And please, try the duck

The suspiciously eager Bessie Bardot will be involved. What's her motive?

For those of you who find horse racing a bit cruel, crab racing too bizarre and human racing dirty and too much trouble, then perhaps duck racing is for you. The Sunnyfield Association knows this. It's holding the Great Duck Race to raise the money needed to place a deposit for a new community house, to cater for people with intellectual disabilities.

Based at Allambie Heights, the Sunnyfield Association is a charity organisation committed to helping people with disabilities by providing community homes, training, employment and many other services throughout Sydney. The only way to do this though is to race novelty rubber ducks in public as well as offer expensive looking electrical goods as prizes for the slavering masses.

For $5 you can buy your very own rubber duck and enter it in the Great Duck Race and, chance it, you might win prizes that include overseas trips, a plasma television, a digital camera or one thousand dollars cash.

Sunnyfield aims to sell 20,000 ducks, thereby raising $100,000 for the charity and giving the repressed
duck-racing population a good chance to pick up some prizes for indulging their duck-hunger.

The race takes place on Sunday 15 May at the annual Sydney Home Show at Darling Harbour. You can buy your ducks on the day or to gain an edge you could pick one up early and start an intensive training program.

For more information on where you can buy your duck or the good work that Sunnyfield do check out their website and get quacking.