Adam Collings discusses some strange riding at Ascot and Newmarket

As a professional punter you can do all the homework in the world, studying form, ground, course type, breeding etc. But no amount of study can legislate for how a jockey’s mind works. When putting out my daily writes ups explaining what had happened the day before, I often found myself laying a degree of blame on the jockey if they had made a mistake and it would be considered I was making excuses for the odd loser, certainly more than my contemporaries in the Tipping Industry.
I used to take a bit of flack for...