TALES FROM THE BETTING RING
Simon Nott at the Grand National meeting

It doesn’t seem a year since we were last at Aintree, but as my old boss Jack Lynn used to say, ‘Your life flies by in this game’. Once again I was on the Star Sports pitch fronted by Ben Keith.
Thursday
The weather was far from ideal as betting got underway for the Devenish Manifesto Novices’ Chase. It was lucky Lofty the clerk was a non-runner for the firm today as he’d have been having a moan-up. Mind you, soprano Laura Wright should have stopped any cold bookie grumbles by belting out Land...