Spurs doing well on two fronts this year. 367 days ago Athletic Bilbao came to to Old Toilet and pumped the pride of asia. Imagine that...must have been the referee at fault...He must have had a howler in the return game when they got battered again... https://twitter.com/iberre70/statuses/195533989400948738 Proper football club and 25% mine.
I am perhaps being unkind. Athletic and manu have much in common in that most of their respective fan base don't speak English.
Great knock from Stephen Finn...proper rear guard stuff. Thats 25% and 50% accounted for..oh!..FO Ireland in the rugger!..almost 100% happy genes...
Stick has nowt to be worried about re MM. I did my conkers but would have without his word. He's not the only one who's been waiting for her to run in that race for a year.
Soft ground and mainly dry but freezing cold all week. Not likely to dry out too much. Stamina horses, luckily I have hardly had any antepost bets, as I would have picked spring ground horses. Only one I have is Sir Des Champs who I am still hoping sees ground with a bit of good in its description.
Cheers men. Checked the BBC weather for Cheltenham throughout the week and no more rain on the way at all. Surely a drying week and with temperatures creeping up towards the end of week, Friday in particular, we'll be having goodish or gd-sft ground?? I'm speculating as I like Fisher's Cross but only on soft and can't see it being that come Friday.
From Racing Post website: CHELTENHAM clerk of the course Simon Claisse on Saturday issued a confident prediction that the 2013 Festival will both start and end on soft ground as he spoke from a track that has been protected by frost covers in advance of the sport's most prestigious meeting for the first time. Following a further 2mm of rain through Friday night, Cheltenham on Saturday remained soft on all tracks, including the Old course, used for the festival's opening two days and which has been completely covered in porous blankets. Covers will on Sunday be applied to Thursday and Friday's New course, but with further showers expected to fall until Tuesday and temperatures due to sink to -6C on Sunday and Monday nights, the prospect of any drying taking place is minimal. As a result, the festival is poised to be staged on the most arduous conditions since 1995, when the fixture was held on soft ground from beginning to end and the Gold Cup finish had to be switched to the Old course home straight after parts of the inner New course were left waterlogged. Claisse said: "Based on the current forecast, my expectation is that the meeting will start on soft ground and I think we will still be predominantly soft on Friday, when there might also be some good to soft places. "The track we use on Tuesday and Wednesday is now covered, as are the vulnerable parts of the cross-country course. Tomorrow we will be covering the course used on Thursday and Friday, although that is purely as a precaution because the weather is expected to become milder as the week goes on. "We have now used frost covers on eight occasions since the 2007-08 season and have raced on all occasions when they were deployed, including when we have experienced more prolonged and colder spells than the one-and-a-half-day snap that is due to run until Tuesday afternoon." The laying of covers will prevent Nicky Henderson carrying out his traditional Sunday morning walking of the course, while anyone wanting to walk Huntingdon's track will also be frustrated as Cheltenham's sister venue has also been wrapped up in advance of its Wednesday card. Sunday's Market Rasen meeting is the subject of a 7am inspection, while Monday's meeting at Stratford has been abandoned due to waterlogging and Taunton will only open its doors the same afternoon if passing an 8am inspection called due to the threat of snow.
Ground has come right for Zarkandar.... Im predicting good to soft ground on the friday for the gold cup...with temperatures rising on thurs and fri im convinced it will have dried out to good to soft..
Yes I'm really annoyed by this as well. I'm waiting on Boston Bob, backed him at 12s, 10s and 8s so I'd likeDynaste to bugger off into the jewson please then I can lay off BB!
With the ground going soft, surely the Jewson is the race for Dynaste. Today I have done two course winners in singles and a double Pyracantha (2 wins and 3 further places from 7 course runs) for Jennie Candlish in the 3.20 at Market Rasen who should go very well and then Trigger The Light (four wins and two places from seven runs) at Warwick for the King yard. 9/4 and 4/1 and a double too.
Mixed feelings about Ruby riding Champagne Fever. My two fancies are Dodging Bullets and Champagne Fever. One will shorten and the other will drift me thinks.
I don't really care which race Dynaste goes for, just want him out of one of the markets. I see Barry Geraghty has gone back to Ireland for one ride today at Nass. 15:10 - Hit the Headlines. Been shortened from 16's to 9/1. Could be worth a bet.
