Magnificent Matsuyama delays potential punting hibernation

Amazingly, in my humble opinion, my daughter has learned how to read – after only a couple of months at school you could write down antidisestablishmentarianism and I would chalk up 8-13 about her successfully comprehending the word.

This is a significant game-changer for my column and I need to be much more careful what I tap into this space in the years to come. Grace loves horses, so could easily become a Racing Post reader, and ever since that ruddy world wide web was invented, anything produced seems to linger in the technological ether forever more, particularly accessible to youngsters who were seemingly born with Google search engines in each finger.

Part of me – the part which would dearly love to believe in The Lord – thinks The Lord has deliberately made me skint over the last couple of weeks so that I write negatively about betting and my offspring can be immediately dissuaded from a stressful life of punting. The Lord certainly works in mysterious ways.