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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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Published on 20 April 2024inBloodstock

Last updated 18:17, 20 April 2024

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