Why it still pays to stay away

May has arrived, which means it?s time for City gents to swap their bowler hats for boaters, and head to the English countryside for summer sporting events. Or was that just the way it was before Big Bang?

May has arrived, which means it?s time for City gents to swap their bowler hats for boaters, and head to the English countryside for summer sporting events. Or was that just the way it was before Big Bang?

Apparently not. The old phrase ?sell in May, go away, return again on Leger day? (the St Leger is the final classic of the English flat-racing season, in mid-September), has been proved to be more than just folklore.

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