Historic handicaps the marker posts guiding Flat fans through the season
Resonance is a word fast becoming so overused that it may soon move downpage to being highlighted in Word Watch, for which suggestions have been received this week from Ruby Walsh, Luca Cumani and the Irish National Stud’s John Osborne – he doesn’t stand there, he runs the place.
Osborne is exasperated, hates the expression 'early doors', which many believe to have been invented by the kickball manager Ron Atkinson – which is wrong, because the only thing Atkinson ever invented was his larger-than-life self.
In fact early doors dates back to the days of Victorian theatre and then music hall, when for a extra few pence you would be let in ahead of everyone else to choose your seat and have some peace before all those idiots came in and made you hop up and down like a natterjack toad on heat to let them into their place in the middle of the row.
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