Oh dear. I have a problem.

I've been catching up on various blogs and so I've had a look, naturally, at Neil Clark's. Anthony Burgess once wrote that he liked to start every day with a Bach fugue. I like to start by mocking the intellectually afflicted, and I find that this is best achieved, on the days he posts, by a look at Clark's site.

Quelle horreur. He writes about Saturday's Dewhurst winner, Teofilo, in glowing terms, and adds that "I certainly won't be opposing Bolger's brilliant colt- or his stablemate Finsceal Beo, so impressive in the Rockfel- in next season's Guineas." This is grim news.

A while ago, I had one of the biggest series of bets in my life on - yes, you've guessed it - both those horses. I backed Teofilo each way at 16/1 for the 2000 Guineas and 12/1 for the Derby, and both of them in an each way double. I then doubled up Teofilo and Finsceal Beo for both Guineas.

If they win (!) then I will win a small - quite large, actually - fortune. But, it seems, Clark - the propagandist for a mass murderer - will also win. Talk about a double-edged sword.

I will have to comfort myself with the knowledge that he will have taken a small price, and will consequently have only small winnings.

Chances are, of course, that neither of us will have any winnings at all. In any case, the flat season is now drawing to a close and we can get on with some proper sport: National Hunt racing. Roll on the Paddy Power meeting at Cheltenham, the real start of the NH season.