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Just checked Make A Stand. It won the Schweppes off 140 but its OR for the Champion Hurdle isn't published. My guess is that it was probably about 150.

That would probably depend on an individual's interpretation of the form, whether you take it at face value or worst-case scenario or anything in between, so the question is largely based on subjective premises which can be quicksand. Nothing that raced in rear early ever got competitive. It's...

Did anyone do that? I confess I was only half-paying attention during the lead-up or the aftermath as I had other things happening in the hacienda and I haven't read any reports. So I have no idea who might have said it but I would agree that a comparison of that nature verges on ignorance...

Looking at the result do you work on the assumption that only the winner has run its race or how well have the beaten horses run? Then take into account that, at two miles, mind, it has won one of the two most hotly contested UK 2m hcap hurdles by no less than 15 and 18 lengths. Take it out of...

I think if it had been under pressure from the home turn I'd be inclined to agree but he never looked out of his comfort zone and it's a lot easier to recover from races at shorter trips. I'd be more inclined to be negative about Haiti Couleurs. But with TQ winning and WA and F placing second...

He was clocking 14s furlongs in that ground before Cobden got him a breather from halfway until the straight then he just picked up again. I'm happy to rate the form very highly, higher even than I imagined it might be, so much so that I have taken 25/1 NRNB for the Champion Hurdle. His...

It is quite a drift considering how strong it seemed at the start of the week. Didn't it hit 11/4 at one point? I watched its races at that point. If I'd backed it in those races I'd have thought I was on a non-trier but it put in good finishes first to end up on the wrong end of the photo...

This is my table for the race, compiled originally on Wednesday and edited on Thursday after the final decs came out with my own ratings in the bold red column. The Best Odds [BO] columns are as they were then but have since changed a bit. I've copied and pasted my synopsis underneath with...

In the last month I have driven only 46 miles at a cost of £1.47. At first I thought that was almost exclusively down to driving to and from a family funeral but then I remembered I went by public transport. Now I'm wondering how I could have racked up that many miles! I haven't been anywhere...

The race is a barge pole job for me. Both L’Homme Pressé and Haiti Couleurs hold Gold Cup and Grand National entries but the win here for HC might see its rating go up to 164 and that would be ten lengths in the National. Would connections want that or are they happy not to run at Aintree? I...

Today's Turftrax report:

Amazing, I once had the trots for eight weeks and that hasn't happened for thirty years either. :)

Poet Laureate out to 80/1 in places so possibly not intended to run. I can't see soft ground being too much of an issue for it so maybe some other reason. Then again, I don't think the stable's winner tend to attract much attention in the markets.

Yes, I was tempted to start a thread myself when I read about yesterday's win. A feelgood story for racing that hopefully after the next handicap win makes the general news. The great thing about it is that it wasn't manufactured in the way that Chaplin's Club was all those years ago, being...

I was sure I got one in the men's shed not too long ago. Wouldn't be surprised if it was five years past its sell by. Still, I'm here to tell the tale. I'm like Terry Wogan. If it looks ok and smells ok it's probably ok. I tend to ignore sell/use by dates and stick to the above. Maybe my...

I will eat biscuits - preferably chocolate biscuits - if they're put down in front of me but I never buy them because in Orchid Manor they would disappear before I got the chance to indulge. 'Luxury' biscuits would be a rarity and maybe something I would only buy as a gift for another...

Careful....

Would that be along similar lines to the bags of Cadburys misshapes you can get at their outlets? I must check them out.

I haven't backed it yet and my plan is just to have enough on it to cover all my other bets on the day. I can also see AIY being 140+ in due course but if LIR is already a mid-140s they've kept a lid on then 11/4 might look generous at half three on Saturday. I do get that the price suggests it...

Of course! Caused a bit of a stink at the time. Saturday's top weight would have had 10-0 in that race as well. Changed days.