Tom Roper's Weblog: The Curragh, Goodwood and Newmarket

August 23, 2008

125 Newmarket: Danehill Destiny
210 Goodwood: Patkai
305 The Curragh: Dushbhanna
315 Goodwood: Raven's Pass
335 Newmarket: Duke of Marmalade

Had the last race been run as planned at York, I would have backed New Approach, but on Newmarket's faster ground, I go for O'Brien's horse

'The most dangerous man in British librarianship' Anon, 1990s
'An intellectually arrogant Bolshevik'...'his reach exceeds his grasp' Headmaster, 1972
'Dear Sir,
There is a person on your staff called Tom Roper, whom I believe to be a librarian of some kind...' from a letter to the Vice-Chancellor of Sussex University, 26 June 2010