Damn. Thought he’d got third. However I’ve been asleep all day (had to get up early to have a steroid injection in my bad knee and now have to be a couch potato for a couple of days) and would have missed Harry’s amazing achievement at riding a winner at every track this year. Went to Jedd O’Keefes stable a few years ago and have fond memories of the place. There was a horse there that was being ridden by that cycling girl who switched to race riding for a while when she retired. The guy who was showing us round said he’d been quite a sad horse when he joined them but had really cheered up there; there were ducks waddling round the stables. He sadly was sold to race in France and I lost track of him. There is a very famous horse buried in one of the fields; might even be Dante? We had several lovely stays at Middleham until the place we stayed at went very bijou and upmarket and we couldn’t afford to stay there any more.
