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A Mug's Game: Right horse, wrong year, these minor details

Enda McEvoy's Cheltenham kitty is dwingling by the end of day three.
A Mug's Game: Right horse, wrong year, these minor details

JJ Slevin on Home By The Lee comes home to win. Picture: INPHO/Morgan Treacy

“Up pops noted bookie and pundit Spike Murphy to mark our card for the rest of the afternoon. Less than auspiciously he’s not keen on the chances of that grand old warrior Home By The Lee in the Stayers Hurdle. His logic is precisely the same as the line of reasoning I employed in steering clear of Jonbon yesterday, ie if he was going to win the thing he’d have won it by now.” 

March 14th 2025 

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