A tragic day, but one jewel in Ruby

AS A gambling novice, after a day on a high stool in a city centre pub in Cork, ‘studying’ the form like a monkey with an abacus, I ended the day’s racing yesterday with a recession-busting total of €15.36.

The problem was I started with €50.

But as ‘Fast Eddie’ Felsen told a young Tom Cruise in The Colour of Money: the cash you win is twice as sweet as that you’ve earned.