Best saga is the farce that keeps on giving, but it's no laughing matter
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This can't go on, can it? Every time you think you have seen the final pratfall, the last rake in the face, the curtain closing on this Three Stooges homage, up pops yet another slapstick gag to groan at.
Far from being resolved by this week's verdict, the endless debacle that is the Jim Best case lurched further into farce and unleashed a whole new round of recriminations, dissatisfaction and outrage. Well, of course it did. What else was going to happen?
Let's start with the week's biggest news: the six-month suspension Best received for ordering conditional jockey Paul John to stop two horses and which, in a rare accomplishment, it seems everyone is unhappy with.
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