Ian_Davies
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Quite possibly one of the most shameful bets I've ever had is one that is currently in progress, namely 12/1 and 10/1 about Constitution Hill never to win another Champion Hurdle, with typically gutless savers at 7/2 and 5/2 that he will win one more.
This is particularly heinous as the horse did me a massive turn when notching his sole Champion Hurdle to date, because I broke just about every rule in my book by backing him ante-post at 3/1 literally a year in advance after he'd won the Supreme in the manner of Golden Cygnet reincarnate.
So I've gone from eulogising about what really did look to me like the best Champion Hurdler since Istabraq the day he won it to wanting him to get beat every time he's set on foot on a racecourse since.
Surely even the most rabid Constitution Hill groupie must've realised by now that I am long odds-on to get paid out, but the big question is how do I spend my ill-gotten gains when I, err, gain them?
Now obviously we can safely and automatically rule out spending it on anybody else - that's not what I'm about
- so I'm weighing up my options.
Here they are in odds form.
5/4 Buy a mint chocolate chip ice cream factory
7/4 Buy a Tiramisu factory
9/4 Make Walsworth an offer he can't refuse (in terms of a remunerative package) to become my Butler/general manservant.
33/1 bar.
This is particularly heinous as the horse did me a massive turn when notching his sole Champion Hurdle to date, because I broke just about every rule in my book by backing him ante-post at 3/1 literally a year in advance after he'd won the Supreme in the manner of Golden Cygnet reincarnate.
So I've gone from eulogising about what really did look to me like the best Champion Hurdler since Istabraq the day he won it to wanting him to get beat every time he's set on foot on a racecourse since.
Surely even the most rabid Constitution Hill groupie must've realised by now that I am long odds-on to get paid out, but the big question is how do I spend my ill-gotten gains when I, err, gain them?
Now obviously we can safely and automatically rule out spending it on anybody else - that's not what I'm about
- so I'm weighing up my options.Here they are in odds form.
5/4 Buy a mint chocolate chip ice cream factory
7/4 Buy a Tiramisu factory
9/4 Make Walsworth an offer he can't refuse (in terms of a remunerative package) to become my Butler/general manservant.
33/1 bar.
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