WE'RE LIVING in bizarre times. No breeding sales, no shows and no chance of a beer tent between now and ... whenever!

The Raider did raise a rare smile, though, when he heard that the 'One man and his Dog' series had been postponed. Now, even the more sensitive amongst us would realise that a man and a dug would hardly constitute a 'gathering' – and it wouldn't even have been in a public place.

As Rab C Nesbit once said: "There's gonna be some bevvy session when this is all over."

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