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It was a massive overcomplication - how I got it wrong in the Arc
One of the most important things to recognise in any walk of life is where you have gone wrong. As Ruby Walsh says, whenever you don't come out in front in a race, there's always something to learn and something you should have done differently.
Over Arc weekend there were loads of instances where I got things dramatically wrong, starting with my aversion to horses by Camelot.
At the start of the season I was dead against them – not because the sire didn't transmit a lot of class to his progeny, but it was just that I felt they didn't hold their form that well and weren't really to be trusted.
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