Ryan Moore's right - you just can't knock the Shergar Cup
The silly season isn't what it used to be, is it? Once upon a time this was a languid month of frivolous news stories about killer chipmunks, pigs on the lam and astral Victor Meldrews appearing in the night sky (all real stories, I swear). How we laughed during those long, carefree days of late summer.
No longer. These days August is all football players being sold for the GDP of a microstate, drug cheats winning gold medals and nuclear war in the Pacific. It's dispiriting, frankly, and all this rain doesn't help either.
So forgive me for feeling happy that racing's own silly season, brief as it is, has arrived as we head this weekend to Ascot for the admirably daft Shergar Cup, British racing's only team-based international jockeys competition.
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