DIARY OF AN AMATEUR PUNTER

Ben Morgan enjoyed the first big meeting at Prestbury Park and was happy to set the alarm for Melbourne

Ben Morgan

First Assignment

As I arrived back home from work on the Friday evening, the first day of the Cheltenham Open meeting, my first port of call was unsurprisingly the sofa where the TV remote rested beside me. I had managed to avoid hearing about Cheltenham all day at work and even survived an accidental refresh of my Twitter feed so I was pretty intent on watching the races back as soon as I could.
I had to resist the urge to immed...