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BEST NOT SIT ON DEFENCE: Rolf Johnson talking tactics – or maybe ‘acting contrary to proper conduct’

Rolf Johnson examines the importance of race tactics, why jockeys cannot afford to sit and wait, and how the right approach can make all the difference.

The introduction to Racehorses of 2009 (one of Time-form’s finest) began with the line: ‘When the One Great Scorer/ Comes to mark against your name/ He writes, not that you won or lost,/ but how you played the game.’

They were quoting Grantland Rice fighting, in vain, against the takeover of sport, by money, in the first half of the Twentieth Century.
But Rice played the game and was honoured with the title of ‘Dean of American Sports writers’.
The woman behind the betting shop counter could barely disguise her disgust.
Defence
I prayed she wouldn’t spit on my winnings (no, not my definitio...

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