Make no mistake - this Scottish trainer is a coming force worth waiting 58 years for
What a difference a mile makes, says David Carr
Get your facts right. It is rule number one in the journalists’ handbook — or at least the one issued to those who work in the traditional/old-fashioned media.
Which is why I am writing this column in the midst of all the Classic trials in a Flat-heavy week, to say sorry for a jump-racing inaccuracy which appeared in these pages last weekend. In our defence, we were only about a mile out.
In celebrating Ewan Whillans’ victory with Cracking Rhapsody in the Scottish Champion Hurdle at Ayr we, and others, suggested he was the first home-trained winner of the race since 1988.
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