The punter's pocket guide to staying proactive in a pandemic
As I'm writing this column I have no idea how you, the reader, might be reading it. Given how quickly things are changing at the moment, it's quite possible that the internet has exploded due to overuse, so the Racing Post website is down, and how can you buy a physical copy of a newspaper from total lockdown?
This enforced abstinence has brought to my mind the endless merry-go-round of the horseracing world. Is it a positive or a negative to know exactly what is coming round the corner at all times?
On the one hand there's something comforting in knowing that, whatever happens, Cheltenham will happen in March, last year's top two-year-olds will begin to emerge as bigger, brighter three-year-olds towards the middle of April and the Flat season will be gearing up for the first big guns to make their names at the start of May.
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