<div class="section1"><div class="Normal"><span style="" font-weight:="" bold;''="">BANGALORE:</span> Kangaroos galloping on a horse track? Doesn''t make horse sense? The Aussie cricket team believes: train like a horse to gallop like a horse. <br /><br />And there is their fitness for all to see. No backward short leg or forward short leg! Just two long legs which take them racing across the field. <br /><br />The Aussie coach John Buchanan, physio Jack Campbell and Tim Nielsen were out at the Bangalore race course in the morning of the game, running on the race track. The trainers led from the front with the team following their footsteps. Four rounds of the course (5 km) at good pace. And no better place to do it than race course reckon the Aussie instructors. <br /><br />The players too love horses and horse racing. Former Australian star batsman Mark Waugh owned a couple of horses and made it a point to visit the Indian race courses on all off days. <br /><br />In Australia''s last visit to the city in 2001, Mark was found enjoying his good run at the races. he picked a few long shots gauging their fitness levels and made his money. Mark was of the view that to become a champion you need to train like a champion and no better than a champion horse to follow. <br /><br />Mark Waugh apart, a couple of international sportsmen including umpires are regulars at the course. Indian tennis ace Mahesh Bhupathi in partnership with tennis coach Enrico Piperno owns a horse named Centralito and umpire A V Jayaprakash is a owner too. Last week at the course, Bhupathi''s horse Centralito won a race on Saturday and Jayaprakash proudly led in his horse Perfect Ten after his victory in the Air Force Cup on Sunday. <br /><br />Jayaprakash incidentally has named his horse Perfect Ten after himself and Anil Kumble. Kumble''s ten-wicket haul against Pakistan in Delhi in which Jayaprakash gave all the ten decisions. <br /><br />And how does Jayaprakash keep fit. Well he too is a regular ''walker'' at the course keeping pace with his horses. A ''Perfect Ten'' exercise. As for the home-grown team, after the hype and hoopla over the get physical fitness specific preparatory camp in the city before the start of the home series against the Kiwis, asanas at hotel Ashok, aerobics and the exacting fitness routines designed by Gregory King, it is the defeated Indians who are panting and not Ponting.</div> </div>