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No excuse for 'disgrace' at Limerick - owners should be treated like royalty now

It has been a 'change your boxers three times a day' kind of week and the stifling heat had me hallucinating on Thursday evening. You won't believe this, but Ross O'Sullivan was actually giving out on Racing TV. I must have spent too much time in the sun. That is the only plausible explanation.

O'Sullivan, you see, is one of racing's good guys, someone who always sees the best in people. Ted Walsh even allowed him to marry his daughter, which tells you all you need to know.

Anyway, O'Sullivan had just sent out Royal Recital to win a handicap hurdle at Limerick and was telling Racing TV's Kevin O'Ryan all about it when something slightly surreal happened. He actually said something negative.

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