IF YOU BACKED What’s The Scoop in the 2.40 at Sandown this afternoon, you must have thought you were sitting pretty.
The Nicky Henderson horse was well clear in the hands of Barry Geraghty as the runners jumped the last, cruising towards an easy win… and then this happened:
Sorry, what?!
The official analysis has that down as “clear before last, swerved badly left, virtually refused to race, rider lost iron, and headed run-in” — which remarkably manages to be a very thorough description and a remarkable understatement at the same time.
Leighton Aspell on Starving Marvin must not have been able to believe his luck, cruising through while Geraghty battled to steer What’s The Scoop back towards the line where he eventually finished six lengths second.
In the horse’s defence, most of us probably feel the same way at the end of a long week.
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