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Constitution Hill £1000 Win Champion Hurdle 8/1 B365

Military Alliance was very nice, worked at it to win whilst Soomaroy wasn’t knocked about trying to. Should they meet again I wouldn’t anticipate the same result. Martator was withdrawn due to a bruised foot and Special Cadeau wasn’t up to it. Couple of notebooks today: 2:55 Huntingdon - I...

Kalif Du Berlais Not in the list JG

Eremenco was a non-runner and nothing to get excited about with the other two, although their jumping was passable. Bugger me, there’s some cracking racing today, but I’m still away and will be busy helping to erect a shed for my son. No notebooks and a cursory glance at the cards leads me to...

By a similar token, desert, I think handicappers sometimes over-rate the top races because they take account of the historic rating average for the race in question. That means that you occasionally see a lower class horse that has chanced its arm in the big race earning a rating that it never...

Each to their own, Danny. What matters more is a + sign in the profit and loss column.

. That’s no excuse, jj 🏇

Early in my career I worked in an office above Berwick Street market in Soho. I went to get a haircut as Alex was getting out of the chair. We chatted for a bit and the barber couldn’t wait to get me in the chair. “Do you know Alex Bird? Got a tip?”. I didn’t, but the Lincoln was coming up...

Alex Bird (sure you will recall him, Ian) was a friend of my father and when he saw I was interested in racing he wagged his finger and said “Don’t bet handicaps”. He never did except in the Grand National because in those days you could eliminate most of the field because they wouldn’t get...

Don’t bet in handicaps.

I think the obsession with Cheltenham is really unhealthy for racing. It shows no sign of lessening, more’s the pity. Maybe they and the local hoteliers will price themselves out of the game in competition with other festivals. I reckon if I come back to life in twenty years time I’d find the...

Kayf Dancer was disappointing last Wednesday and there didn’t seem to be any good reason. Away at the moment and missed out yesterday on Be Aware who jumped well and won on his chase debut. He tracked the leader, Grandeur Dame, for most of the race and that one was still in the lead when...

Honest as the day’s long. Cross me ‘eart, guv.

No notebooks, but Kayf Dancer - 2:53:Newton Abbott- ran The New Lion to seven lengths a year ago and then followed that with a facile 1/14 win at Exeter in March. Not sure why he only ran the twice, but if he’s ok he should be bang there today. Won’t be about for a couple of days.

Bespoke Tailor ran pretty well, but his jumping was on the poor side of average. He closed up with the leading two, but lost lengths over the hurdles and just cantered in when they went away. Beat the rest of the field easy enough, though. Might be something there if he gets his jumping...

Forget to add thx, jj. Getting a decent list and cutting the big guns down to a reasonable size isn’t the easiest of tasks.

Barjon 1 Constitution Hill Fact To File Haiti Coleurs Jonbon Lossiemouth Lulamba Majborough Myretown The New Lion Dark Horse: Kalif Du Berlais - Nicholls Barjon 2 Anzadam Bambino Fever Eremenko. Grey Dawning Jango Baie Jingko Blue Kopek Des Bordes Marine Nationale Spillane Tower Dark Horse...

Well, neither of you suffer fools gladly so you'd have most of your co-pundits on ignore and slim wouldn’t be able to get through his first sentence without being bleeped out.

If you want hard focussed racing join RacingTV, more general entertainment stuff is a small price to pay for pretty decent coverage on ITV.