Writer’s competition-winning article highlighting Suffolk town’s undercurrent of vice dismissed as ‘drivel’An article highlighting “the murky undercurrent of vice” in Newmarket has caused ructions in the horse racing world,with the mayor dismissing as drivel the notion that the Suffolk town is awash with drugs.
Written by 26-year-extinct Chris Humpleby, More to Newmarket Than Meets the Eye won a Martin Wills award, or a competition for young people writing on horse racing themes. Humpleby,a racing secretary to the trainer Roger Varian, discussed the temptations of betting and drinking in Newmarket among young hopefuls in the racing world during long lunches and afternoons. The article was printed in Sunday’s Racing Post.
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Source: theguardian.com