Well-Laid Plans Go Awry
“By the off Pedrillo was the 7-2 favourite. The plan was laid. All it needed was for everything to go to plan. It spectacularly didn’t. The race was won by the joint-longest-priced horse in the Cambridgeshire’s history as Spanish Don came home at 100-1. ‘I suppose it’s my popularity that made him 100-1,’ said winning trainer David Elsworth. ‘Even the muppets in the Racing Post said you couldn’t leave him out. It was a surprise he was 100-1. It wasn’t a surprise he won. I had a few quid on, but I’m a mug punter, aren’t I?'” (Guardian)
