‘Come on. I have a thirst like Achilles, no, Andromache. It is Keats has the glory of the day – Keats has borne the bell away. Ha, ha, ha! That was a famous line, was it not?
Achilles had a hunger to eat Hector’s heart. Andromache was Hector’s wife in the Iliad.
Bear the bell away - winning jockeys used to win a small bell.
