Family traditions
Robin Oakley surveys the turf
The actor Bernard Miles, asked once how he liked his eggs, replied, ‘In threes.’ An old chum of mine, in the days when lunch with ministers or MPs was an established and essential element of a political journalist’s life, had much the same response to aperitifs. ‘The saddest five words in the English language,’ he once declared, ‘are: “Shall we go straight in?”’ There is a danger these days of jump racing focusing so heavily on the four-day Cheltenham Festival in early March that all the pleasant preliminaries are neglected. Ascot last Saturday, under sullen, scowling skies and with ground more testing than it is ever likely to be at the Festival, proved what a mistake that can be.
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