DIARY OF AN AMATEUR PUNTER
Ben Morgan had a decent month — but it was close to a great one

The month started with me wearing my syndicate manager’s hat as Only Fools Own Horses’ newest recruit, Memphis Bleek, was due to run at Stratford. We picked him up at the backend of last year from Ivan Furtado in the hope that he would make a tidy hurdler. After some educational runs we were pretty hopeful he would be a bit better than his opening mark.
Having said that, I don’t think any of us were that confident that we decided to knock him into 4/1 from 20/1. I was very...