One law for the rich and another for the poor

In the press room at Tramore last Thursday week a group of us were watching a two-year-old maiden being run at Leopardstown.

One of the press corps had backed a horse of David Wachman’s called Chattel House and was literally jumping up and down on one leg, as he watched him get kid-glove treatment from Johnny Murtagh through the final furlong.

Murtagh’s performance didn’t look good, made all the worse by the fact that the contest was won by the heavily-backed Aidan O’Brien-trained Why, partnered by the trainer’s son, Joseph.