Colombo backers must be nuts!

I really had to smile when reading earlier in the week about the so-called sustained gamble on Aidan O’Brien’s Cristoforo Colombo for next Tuesday’s Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot.

Perhaps certain punters were knocking each other over in an effort to get on the once-raced son of Henrythenavigator, but if so then they must be nuts!

This story broke on Tuesday afternoon, 6-1 down to 7-2 we were told, and it took a fair bit of swallowing.