Why I’m ready for a lie down in a dark room after a week in bloodstock’s answer to the Love Island villa
James Thomas reports from his few days in Deauville for the Arqana Breeding Stock Sale
Thursday, December 7
As the Racing Post team rather descended on Deauville en masse, our rented accommodation for the week was a roomy residence in the centre of town. This was bloodstock journalism's answer to the Love Island villa.
But rather than bronzed beauties wandering around in not much at all, most of the time there was just myself and morning email merchant Martin Stevens sat in the kitchen eating jambon from the packet. ITV are welcome to the rights to that spin-off, but somehow I don’t see the concept catching on.
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