What, if anything, can we learn from history? With Cheltenham almost in full beam view, we are annually bombarded with statistics, trends, and previews until our brains erupt into a volcano of confusion.

Maybe Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher (sadly not of the Old Stoic Racing Club variety) hit the nail on the head more than a thousand years ago, when he mused, ‘Erase the print of imagination, stop impulse, quench desire: keep your directing mind its own master.’
To my way of thinking MA was urging us not to be swayed by tittle-tattle but to make decisions from our heart...