WAITING for racing to resume these past couple of months has at times felt like Waiting for Godot. The author of that play, Samuel Beckett, once said: “We are all born mad. Some remain so.”

It is not clear if he had horse racing fans in mind when uttering these words but I suspect it is a shade of odds-on that he may well have been referring to us. Like all true fans of our sport, for whatever reason and where horse racing is concerned, I certainly seem to have been ‘born mad’ and am glad to say that I remain so some 46 years on!