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Well, that's the Myretown GN bubble well and truly popped. Won't even get into the race now even if they wanted it to. It looked not to stay so maybe it will save itself a very exhausting day. I wouldn't be surprised if they gave up on the National some time ago and decided just to go for the...

My father had a phrase he was won't to employ if he was unimpressed by a person's/horse's ability. "X can play/run/throw/jump/ride etc nane." I found myself muttering during that race, "Whisky Yankee can jump nane." One to bodyswerve until it learns its trade.

That win for Fiercely Proud was more than a tad annoying. It was my immediate fancy for the race but when I saw that Ben Jones was on Range I assumed connections of the latter had asked for him to ride and Pauling let him off FP was negative for that one. I also took it as a positive for Dylan...

Can I add nails to my baseball bat?

A hopeful yankee for the sake of a watching interest: Asc 2.25 - Range (12/1) Asc 3.00 - Joyeux Machin (11/2) Hay 3.15 - Myretown (10/3) Hay 3.50 - Minella Emperor (9/2) No expectations. I'll be happy if they all appear to be trying.

I was a wee bit embarrassed that I might have been on a non-trier so didn't name it but the money seems to have come for it so I'll put my head above the parapet with it: Minella Emperor (took 5/1 yesterday and it went out to 15/2 this morning).

Intellotto has gone for a long walk in the market again. Looks like they're using the shoes normally reserved for the milk round.

That's pretty much how things are viewed in the current Orchid household. The present Mrs O is particularly vexed by the burgeoning plethora of 'celebrity' programmes. I have to don my cycling helmet and Kevlar jacket when such a programme inadvertently appears on the screen.

Probably lives by the mantra, 'There's no such thing as bad publicity.'

Nah, I've still got her chained to the four-poster... (It's Valentine's day, after all...)

The best-laid plans, etc, etc... This one was 20s in a few places around 8am but I went downstairs to stick the kettle on and make the porridge. When I came back upstairs it was 18s tops but not blue so I thought the prices would correct themselves again and I'd get at least 20s. Then I forgot...

Man, I would be all for that. Can we set the decibel level at 1 and the starting level of shock at 50,000v?

Chapman is in full annoy-DO-mode this morning. Opens the show with a shout about how the money has come for Joyeux Machin. It hadn't. It had been pink across the board since yesterday evening. Then he, in his usual full-arrogant style, persisted in pronouncing the 't' in Montregard, despite...

To balance this faux pas somewhat, I am happy to kind of aftertime that I took 18/1 Jupiter Des Mottes yesterday in the Pertemps qualifier. It's now 5/1 tops. I'm assuming someone like Pricewise is keen on it. (It isn't my main bet - that one's price is moving in the wrong direction :( . I also...

In to 12/1 with Unibet in the outright market. 14/1 with Sky and PP. Has 'someone of influence' put it up?

Getting there... 11/4 tops. Now I'm starting to get annoyed about not jumping in at 7/1 on Tuesday morning.

Should be 50%, I think. It was even money with the same bookie.

Myretwon has taken over at the head of the market, in to 10/3 tops, generally shorter. I can see it going off at 9/4.

The favourite has come out. COF is now 9/2 absolute tops, generally shorter. I don't know whether to feel positive or negative about it.