Mind you, he's certainly earned his corn over the course of his career, nigh on 200k. As far as Apple Away goes, she owes me some reward, surely, for my faith in her but it's getting near closing time, isn't it?
Do you know what, TFT? It's stupid, I know, but there's one going in this and his name has been just been ringing round my head for about the last week; it just trips off my tongue, 'Fortunedefortunata'. I've thought of it so many times - 'Fortunedefortunata'. I think dementia beckons.
Now, you're my witness: if that horse should win tomorrow, unbacked...The only time this has ever happened to me before was decades ago when I was working on a building site in Peckham. It was payday, we hadn't been paid yet, I was skint. It was the day of the Oaks and this bloody name kept ringing around my head: 'Juliette Marny, Juliette Marny'. I was running around frantically, looking for a sub so I could back her but everyone else was skint, too. Potless. Well, needless to say, she won with Piggot up. Of course she did. 12/1, I think she was. Oh, happy days. Good bye Baby Baby Goodbye.
I thought I'd share that misty image from the blue remembered hills of my past. Sounds like Del Boy's about to appear, doesn't it.
So, where were we?
Fortunedefortunata. Latin: 'Fortune favours the bold'. Or as Del Boy would say "He who dares, wins, Tellers". I'll risk a shekel or two.
Did I mention dementia?
