Lesson to self: don’t put a bet on in autumn

It was bookmakers 7, Oakley 0. Every year I forget that autumn rains change the going and make a nonsense of form figures

From magazine issue: 29 October 2022

Jockey P.J. McDonald, pictured at Ascot in the summer [Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images]

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Lesson to self: don’t put a bet on in autumn
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