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The Golden Age of jockeys

I WAS TALKING TO A ministers, as one does. I was arguing the entirely unoriginal point that things were definitely better in The Olden Days. Where are the Healeys, the Lawsons, the Clarkes today? We have a load of pygmies in comparison. However, my friend was adamant that this was a nonsense point and that in 20 years people would be looking back to today and saying the same thing in making the comparison.

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