Under most circumstances, I run a mile from making predictions. At an early age, I noticed that all bookmakers lived in a big house and drove a big car, while everybody I knew who poured over form books for hours, got very excited if – once in a blue moon – they won as much as fifty pounds on a horse. Fifty pounds does not buy you a Bentley. I feel compassion for the editor of one magazine who began…

Maureen Magee