Zavateri (right) with Charles Bishop up, on their way to winning the Goffs Vincent O’Brien National Stakes, from second place Gstaad and Christophe Soumillon, at the Curragh last month. Photo: Seb Daly/Sportsfile
We all go through good and bad spells in this betting game. Unfortunately, I’m in the middle of one of the bad ones, with winners proving hard to come by – none at all from last week’s column.
Hardly vintage form of late, I admit, and one mate down in the local quipped that if I said it was going to rain, he’d pack the sun cream. A bit harsh, perhaps, and I prefer to describe my recent tipping performance as “character-building”.