John Greene

But you know the point I'm making.

No, I do, yeah.

It's a really specialist sport and it's not one that...

You know, most of us that are into sport can come on and talk reasonably okay around a lot of sport.

And we can talk in the round about horse racing and about how important it is to the Irish economy and all this kind of stuff and the fact that we're world leaders in the breeding game, et cetera, et cetera.

And that's where it sits.

Yeah, it's interesting.

Well, I've been to Punchestown.

I've been to Punchestown over the years.

I haven't been for a while.

It is a fantastic experience.

I've been to... Lanford GA have been running a fundraiser there for years, and one of the first to do it, and it's now taken off.

It's a real part of the Punxsutawney experience.

That was on the Tuesday, and over across the week, clubs and county boards.

It's a fantastic day at Punxsutawney.

No, no, no.

I have a good friend who has no interest in racing and he was a foot GA man coach all his life and I think he got involved in a couple of little syndicates in his late 60s and he absolutely adores it now and it's all flat and it's really affordable.

Small little amounts of money that he's putting into it but one of them brought him all the way to Santa Anita two years ago.

I mean, that's the stinker of a race.

But, you know, what you're saying is true.