Where’s The Logic?
Horseracing’s great conflict with its own rules, process and rationality came home to haunt in the Greyville third race on Friday evening
27th October 2017
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Horseracing’s great conflict with its own rules, process and rationality came home to haunt in the Greyville third race on Friday evening
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