REPUTATION matters. It matters to individuals, to companies, perhaps above all to countries. It matters enormously to charities and to any organisation that depends on the trust of people who support them, work for them or depend on them.

HOMER SCOTT nominated a possible tilt at the John Hughes Chase, over the Grand National fences, at Liverpool next Friday for John James, after the gelding had taken the Clonmel Chase at the Tipperary track yesterday.