Travel nightmares and an interviewer’s dream as I return for another cycle in the sales reporting washing machine

Tuesday, October 21

I’ve often heard rugby players talk about being ‘in the washing machine.’ Now I couldn’t find a dictionary of rugby terminology, but I’m pretty sure this phrase has nothing to do with laundry. 

Instead, I take it to refer to a moment in a game when the match is in the balance, your lungs are burning, your ribs are aching, your knees are wobbly and fatigue is on the brink of leaving you in a heap on the turf. 

Well, having covered major yearling sales at Arqana, Doncaster, Tattersalls, Baden-Baden, Fairyhouse, Goffs and Tattersalls again, the latter for the thick end of two weeks, I was very much ‘in the washing machine’ myself. At least in sales reporting terms.