It really cheeses me off when a springer or a long-shot beats mine. If Paul Carberry had, say, left his challenge too late (or Monbeg Dude had been kept under control by Walter and Donny), I’d have had the first second and third. Honest, I didn’t bet on the whole field! None of t’others.
And imagine if I’d been reckless enough to do the tricast! Oh.. er.. I’d still have lost, wouldn’t I? Probably because Walter wasn’t doing his job, rabbiting on about Charlie Kong, ‘those little guys in black pyjamas’, who fought against him so worthily in ‘Nam….!