A symbolic day as Gordon Elliott shines while Willie Mullins toils

It’s been less than a week since a 26ft statue of Pharoah Ramses II, or Ozymandias as the Greeks liked to call him, was rescued from its ignoble resting place beneath a suburban Cairo slum and surrounded by dirty, running water.

A symbolic day as Gordon Elliott shines while Willie Mullins toils
Wed, 15 Mar, 2017 - 00:00
Brendan O'Brien

The irony was lost on no-one.

The find was just another reminder that the ravages of time conquer all: Even the most imposing of rulers and empires.

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