Beware the herd mentality

YOU could only describe it as the herd mentality.

All last week, in the lead-up to Sunday’s Tied Cottage Chase at Punchestown, the bookmakers created something of a surprise with the manner in which they bet the Grade 2 contest.

Essentially what they offered was 4-5 Big Zeb and 5-4 Sizing Europe and those odds made no sense, at least to me. Indeed, Paddy Power were even so bold as to go 11-8 Sizing Europe.