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From: The Spectator
Date: 20040117
Author:Oakley, Robin

In his Devil's Dictionary Ambrose Bierce describes patience as 'a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue'. Bierce obviously did not spend much time in National Hunt racing stables where the vet's confirmation of tendon or other damage so often means the dread phone-call to an owner with the message: 'He's got a leg, and I'm afraid that's it for this season.' In jump-racing, patience - the patience to take long enough in treatment and not to rush a racecourse return - is undoubtedly a virtue, as was amply demonstrated at Ascot on Saturday.

It was 392 days since the seven-year-old Supreme ...

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