Ashforth's Angles: show me the munny
Life's full of disappointments and there’s another one in the Racing UK Handicap Chase at Ludlow (3.35). I don't know whose fault it was, whether it was Anne Thompson, who bred him or someone else but I wish William Money had been called William Munny, instead.
It's not that William Money has done badly, after all Tim Vaughan’s ten-year-old has won four chases and a point-to-point but if he'd been called William Munny we could have reminisced about the memorable character in one of the greatest of Westerns, Unforgiven.
Clint Eastwood directed the 1992 film and played William Munny, with Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman alongside. Unforgiven won four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and, for Hackman’s role as sheriff Little Bill Daggett, Best Supporting Actor.
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