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Friday Round-Up

Good morning all,

Plenty on today as I'll be doing the Bangor comments for the Sporting Life tomorrow, so waiting for the final decs to come out at 10.30. Then I've got the Downpatrick card on Sunday as well, so I'll be cracking on with that afterwards!

Plans for Garthorpe tomorrow have been shelved as I'm staying down South for another day but I may go to Newbury tomorrow if time allows instead.

Today, a review of some interesting races I've seen on the smaller tracks over the past few days, plus one of my Cheltenham Horses to Follow. The rest will be in this month's Betting Insiders.

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Cheltenham Hangover Sets In

Hi all,

The eagerly awaited Cheltenham Festival is over for another year. Hopefully you had a better festival betting wise than I did. Breaking even isn’t my idea of a successful weeks punting but on the plus side it could have been worse. Like all eagerly awaited events there is always a sense of deflation when the event is over and it’s no different with ending of Cheltenham Festival. Oh well just another 359 days to go till the start of the 2018 festival.

At least there is still plenty to look forward too with Aintree’s Grand National meeting just a couple of weeks away and the Punchestown Festival also on the horizon. Meanwhile those of us who like the flat will be heartened with the thought that there’s less than two weeks till Doncaster gets the 2017 flat season underway.Read More »Cheltenham Hangover Sets In

Three from Three?

Morning all,

This week’s article should have been looking back at the best performances of Festival Trials Day at Cheltenham but sadly events on Saturday cast a big shadow on the day. Before looking at a couple of the best performances of the weekend, One For The Tracker and of course a selection from Stats Corner for today’s racing I will firstly share some thoughts about the sad loss of a Grand National winner and true equine hero!Read More »Three from Three?

Sick As A Parrot, Brian.

Good morning all,

Any hopes of a trip to Worcester were dashed first thing (well, in the night actually) and a temperature at 38.3 kicks in and frankly I can barely move. Just feel absolutely washed out and I'll be back in bed as soon as I've written today's piece. Apologies if it's not the usual standard but I'm really not up to a lot this morning.

Absolutely gutted I didn't put Mariah's Legend up as the selection yesterday. She was one of my ten to follow at the beginning of the season (if you've not got those and want them, drop your email in the comments) but hadn't progressed as I thought she would, mainly because she wasn't settling. There were no issues on that score yesterday and she looked a different horse, scooting up at 33-1. Now she knows what it's all about she should win more.

Three races looked at today. Read More »Sick As A Parrot, Brian.