Ian Harrison salutes a profitable summer which would have been even better but for the weather

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Ian Harrison
We have suffered probably the most contrary summer ever. Once again it has been proclaimed that climate change is a lot of bunk. The earth is cooler now than it was in 1999. As for British weather, Bob Hope got it right when he said that most countries have a climate but Britain has the ‘weather’ and you get every bit of it every day.
In racing you need stability. It is either firm or soft and when firm suddenly changes to soft it becomes a bookies benefit. It is...