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What was Clement Freud’s contribution to the world of racing?

Rolf Johnson on the gloomy wisdom of turf and kitchen star Clement Freud.

Clement Freud at Ascot in 2006

Some would say (they would, wouldn’t they) that what follows is the caterwauling of a racing journalist who sneaked into Timeform in 1966; clung on to the Daily Express for nearly thirty years; and is still filing copy while trespassing in racecourse Press rooms.
The economic freeze of the mid-1960s killed Timeform’s Racing Week on which I was privileged to work with the late Howard Wright. The decline of the Express’s racing coverage is grievous – but then so is every other newspaper’...

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