THERE ARE ENOUGH aphorisms in racing to fill a book. It doesn’t really matter that most of them are nonsense — such as, “Always back the outsider in a three-horse race”. If you do that the chances are you’ll just be making regular contributions to the bookies’ benevolent fund.
But they’re not all wrong. I long ago realised that “Always listen to Ruby Walsh” is a pretty decent approach to understanding what’s really going on, and what
