Your welfare is our concern — but only if you have a horse in training

SHOULD probably begin with a small apology to diligent readers. If you followed my instructions of last week, you’d have found the horsey money in the book of estimates, exactly where I said it was.

Except I said it would be around €60 million.

In fact it was just under €67 million. Instead of the horsey set taking a reduction, they actually got an increase in the money that is largely used for their prizes. And one other thing I should mention, that I hadn't realised when I was writing last week's piece: those prizes are all tax free.