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AURELIUS WAS ON THE MONEY

Robert Cooper digs deep for a hot Festival tip from a Roman emporer

What, if anything, can we learn from history? With Cheltenham almost in full beam view, we are annually bombarded with statistics, trends, and previews until our brains erupt into a volcano of confusion. Maybe Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher (sadly not of the Old Stoic Racing Club variety) hit the nail on the head more than a thousand years ago, when he mused, ‘Erase the print of imagination, stop impulse, quench desire: keep your directing mind its own master.’
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