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IF SHERLOCK HAD BEEN A TIPSTER: Rolf Johnson blasts ‘after thinkers’ – but sees the logic in Daryz Arc glory

Sherlock Holmes didn’t do ‘after timing’: the world’s most famous detective was always ahead of the game; the police plodded on.
Observation, logic, science, deduction, Holmes sharpened his tools, courtesy of his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Surely Sherlock would have made money backing horses. Instead he exercised his over-sized brain sleuthing.

Holmes gave me a sketch of the events’. Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the railway train to Devon to investigate a murder and the disappearance of a famous racehorse

Crafty in the middle

Indeed, racing was a gap in Holmes’s cv. (The orig...

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