Only 5 winners from 50 bets today lots of hard luck stories for 2nd places though. Winners first Danny Beaman 9-2, Dave Barker 11-10, Dave Ward, 9-2, Tony Norton 4-7, & Justin Sercombe 9-2. So the only person who moved around in the top 10 was Tony Norton who rose 2 places for that odds on winner.
In the plate Justin Sercombe's 10 point winner lifted him onto the leaderboard.
The hard luck stories were the 5 of us who saw Allure of Illusion beaten after getting badly hampered, and the very bad riding from the claimer on Featherbed Lane, in the Lanzarote, chucked away the win by a nose - any other jockey would have seen that home. Finally, a great run from the 33-1 outsider, Gracchus, for Paul Berg also just finished 2nd.
If only eh! Well if only the jockey on the winner of the Lanzarote that got the favourite home by that nose by excessive use of the whip had been punished properly not just banned - if they want to stop it they have to take away the win not just his fee.
good old swincombe flame, best horse won
ReplyDeleteyes but only because his jockey cheated - look out for my letter to the Sunday Times next Sunday!
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