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I'm beginning to get a strange feeling in my waters that an unexpected and wholly unfamiliar event might take place later this afternoon. Edit: my own selection in the 3:50 is One Last Glance, but I've put a little saver on Mombasa.

I would say it depends on the powers and resources available to regulators, and their appetite for using them. If people laid those horses and made sure, by pressure of one sort or another on jockey or trainer, that the horses would lose, then evidence will exist, and an investigator with...

I'm going to give a lawyer's answer! If you make the charge bringing racing into disrepute, or something like that, with the aim that you don't have to prove certain specific acts, you would still have to prove that it was Philip B that did something to bring racing into disrepute. Just falling...

That's fair. You'd have to do more investigation to establish some link or contact, to make the betting evidence more than just smelly circumstances. Betting evidence doesn't prove what was in Philip B's mind. But I can't help feeling the IHRB has done a bad job with the material, when the...

Good article. I am a litigator myself, but I am in full agreement with the general point that sports disciplinary proceedings and the like have become over-lawyered and far too aligned with legal proceedings. I've seen it in other sports and I find it depressing. It's up to the bodies...

I hope someone from ITV is reading your spirited pep rallying... I think you're lined up for a job as MC next time. Go Friday nights, yeah!

The only thing accurate about that was the first line.

I know sweet FA about all-weather racing or the peculiarities of Newcastle, but I'm as giddy as a schoolgirl getting ready for tonight's televised party, and I have decided to take a twirl with Mr Lightside at 20/1 in the 19:00. If his two year old efforts were a sign of promise, rather than...

To be fair, if you've seen the lassies out in Bigg Market, you'll know that the Geordies don't let a little nip in the air inconvenience them when they're of a mind to party.

Those are not even biscuits! This has gone on long enough. Milk chocolate digestives - end of.

Looks like I'm looking elsewhere then

I am old enough to remember the Schweppes, but it became the Tote Gold Trophy for me when Rodeo Star won it in his white bridle. That was a good race.

I'm interested in Serious Challenge at 20s. Forget the Greatwood, something went wrong there. He hasn't been put up too much for the subsequent victory at Haydock. Acts ok on heavy, judging by his defeat of Bowensonfire, no less, at Ayr a year ago. I don't need to point out that the latter just...

I wonder if the Bahamas will still exist?

75 years since Nickel Coin, it's about time.

Love it!

Nice one.

He swam ashore on D-Day, so I suppose Julian Wilson didn't hold much fear for him.

This is all new to me and fascinating. I didn't know until reading into this that Ryan Price got suspended for doing a Langer Dan with Rosyth - coming back to win the Schweppes for a second time after a string of defeats in between. Maybe standards were different.

And so Jango Baie is the 6-1 favourite for the Gold Cup. Well, well.