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Write and wrong

Terry Jolley (26/1) is outraged at these newfangled racing journalists who have the temerity to write about such uninteresting topics as "jockeys having a bet, which has been going on since racing started".

I’m glad Terry is the kind of live-and-let-live guy who’s happy for his jockey to have a punt, presumably even if the jockey has backed another horse. (That, after all, is what most of those tedious columns were about.)

Me, if I’ve backed a horse and the jockey on my horse has backed a different horse in the same race, I kind of feel like I’ve been robbed.

But maybe that’s just me.

Someone has been bringing the sport into disrepute, but I’m not sure it’s the journalists.

Dale Scott
Cremorne (Vic)
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