One month into the new season and there is much to be enthused about. The Tories bolted up in the recent election, with Boris Johnson able to peer gleefully over his shoulder crossing the finish line, while Jeremy Corbyn and Jo Swinson were ultimately well beaten.
We have managed to lose only two out of nine pre-Christmas meetings, in what has been the wettest early season I can remember in a long time.
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