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Stumptown. Cross Country 1,000 win 3/1 Unibet

Koktail Divin Jack Richards Novice Chase 1,000 win 8/1 Unibet

That’s ten winners a week. He won’t be managing that strike rate at Cheltenham and Aintree, which takes seven days out of the 63 left. No, I don’t think it’s likely.

I hope you’re back feeling ok again, BJ.

One of my imaginary girlfriends too. Then she went and ruined it all by becoming a nun.

His ride on The Nagger Reidy at Leopardstown was extraordinary. Very much along the lines of McCoy’s famous Festival win on Wichita Lineman.

Definitely

Buachaillbocht (pronunciation guide, please, someone?) Listen out for Jerry Hannon, he will have it right, as would most of the Irish commentators.

Yes, we're getting a lively enough dose of rain again this morning.

Leopardstown has had 170 mm rain (about 7 inches in old money) in the last ten days, about ten weeks worth of normal rainfall in these parts. After all that the going on the chase course was sodden this morning, but not heavy, after being waterlogged yesterday. There was a reasonably drying...

Trainers will often observe when speaking about one of their runners in a handicap that it has ‘a nice racing weight’. A lot of horses aren’t especially big and being at the lower end of the weights for a particular race can really help them, especially in tough conditions.

Indeed, and we had a very good winner of it last year

El Fabiolo Champion Hurdle 500 win 20/1 B365

How could anyone called Professor Krook be trusted?

Thanks for sharing. The contrast between the FA allowing owners to bet on football on an industrial scale while persecuting individual players with addiction issues for having minor bets is amazing.

I don’t remember if he actually ran, but the Captain didn’t finish in the first three that day. Bottomless ground was never his thing.

You might have your explanation here for why the jockeys went so slowly in todays ground at Gowran. They were probably warned not to go mad in front of a terrestrial tv audience.

My friend Paddy asked me today what I was backing in the big race. I replied that I didn’t know yet but that my methodology given the extreme conditions would be to start with the lowest weighted horse and work upwards. The first horse I thought had a plausible chance would be the bet. He...

Harry Cobden is to take over from Mark Walsh as retained rider for “the great man”

Please add the points for the dark horse for my Grey 1 team, Baron Noir, which won a maiden hurdle at Uttoxeter on 9 December. Incidentally it also runs today, in the 12.20 at Kempton.