WE could all do with a laugh.
Our stop-start Flat season has been filled with more teeth-gnashing than an omnibus edition of Eastenders.
The mood was hardly lightened when Doncaster’s pilot scheme to reintroduce racegoers went west before you could say R-rate. And Boris’s new `rule of six’ has put the brakes on any return to normality.
That has snookered some well-known faces in the wonderful world of showbiz. For starters, the seven dwarfs have been advised they can only meet in a group of six from Monday.
One of them isn’t Happy.
Anyway, it’s on to the St Leger where William Muir has got the ante-post favourite Pyledriver. Now wee Willie is adamant size doesn’t matter.
But he’s odds-on to feel like Custer at the Alamo when his stable star is being circled by a five-strong Irish raiding party.
And eagle-eyed punters have already clocked Aidan O’Brien booking Frankie Dettori for Santiago.
The team at William Hill reckon it feels like a perfect punting storm and are bracing themselves for a nationwide plunge on the colt.
Mind you, the O’Brien’s have got more strings to their bow than William Tell.
And Hills report that boy wonder Joseph O’Brien’s Galileo Chrome (16-1 to 6s) has been a massive ante-post mover this week.
Now, this fella looked the business when he beat B-listers by the length of Harry Maguire’s charge sheet at Navan a fortnight ago.
Money talks, so it is a pound to a penny he will be involved at the sharp end today.