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No avoiding the professional hazards as I'm judged by the reporting gods and snubbed by a Leeds United striker
James Thomas on a tempestuous week on the sales beat in Newmarket
Monday, April 15
Grand National weekend is basically a professional hazard for those of us in the racing media.
The evening before the world’s most famous steeplechase was spent at a wedding of my wife’s friends, and when other guests heard what I do for a living they practically formed an orderly queue to ask what would win the big race. This could only end one way. Embarrassingly for me. Expensively for them.
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