Rasen Rocks
Good morning all,
Late back from Newmarket last night thanks to motorway closures and the like, so it's with a slightly sleep-deprived body I haul myself up to Doncaster today. It'll be another busy day, and I always think the Donny crowd are a good punting crowd, even on event days like this. Perhaps it's because the lads and lasses there are brought up in households that teach their kids the important things when they're young, like never betting a round robin – have a trixie with bigger singles instead – so hopefully I'll be busy from start to finish today.
Newmarket was as expected – dreadful business at the beginning (we took £41 on the first race) but had built up by the time the last came around. Sadly, every man, woman and child wanted to be Frankie in his efforts to ride his 3000th winner in that race and he duly obliged, with the other jockeys helpfully letting Frankie set his own steady fractions to the cause. We were paying out for 15 minutes after the race, along with just about every other bookmaker on the track! Worse, it beat yesterday's selection, Palmerston, by half a length, just rubbing salt into the wounds….
So to today's racing. I have taken a look at a couple of races from Market Rasen, on their Rasen Rocks night (Jess Glynne again!)