David Ord is trackside as Dan Skelton and Paul Nicholls put Mike Tyson and Jake Paul to shame at Cheltenham.
It’s amazing how life can send you such mixed messages.
Illness has swept through Ord Towers this week, ruling me out of day one of the November Meeting, and on Friday morning I was teetering on the brink of waving the white flag for the entire weekend.
But then, as I brewed a cup of tea and wondered what had become of me, I caught the sight of Mike Tyson, wearing only a pair of Versace briefs, slapping Jake Paul in the face. And I thought if he can do that at the age of 58 then I, six years his junior albeit with air bags where he owns pecs and abs, can climb into a car and drive three hours to the home of jumps racing.
So I did just that. Two minutes into the trip I turned on Radio 2 to find out my inspiration had thrown around two punches a round against his younger opponent, been comprehensively beaten and both fighters booed from the ring.
