'Course you don't have to listen to me
But it is the only horse he has running at Sandown today and it is a 500 mile round trip from his stables in North Yorkshire. Seems a lot of trouble and expense unless..........................

Oh ~ and he (Mark Johnson) was at school with Mrs S#2 ~ she remembers him as a canny b@st@rd who was always soliciting pocket money from his classmates and bunking off to the bookies in the High Street. Nick Nairn (Chef) was also in that class as was Tennis Player Andy Murray's mother and Michael Farraday's grandson.