Vif Victorious At Worcester

It is a busy day with six meetings taking place this afternoon with flat action from Chester, Lingfield, Ascot, Ripon and Nottingham with a supporting jumps card from Market Rasen.  The stable has one runner this afternoon, a gelding with a great name 'Prince Of Poets'.  He was a winner of an all-weather bumper at Lingfield on his only previous start and he makes his debut for Pond House today.  He has to concede a penalty to the remainder of the field and it could take a decent performance to win this with the powerful Hobbs and Henderson teams both fielding unraced types.

The stable enjoyed it's third winner in as many days yesterday when Vif Argent (pictured above) ran out the ready winner of the selling hurdle at Worcester, although he was sold at the subsequent auction for 11,500 guineas.  I don't think I will ever vote for UKIP - Andrew is the treasurer so you would think that he would be more careful with his money!  We were having a drink with Andrew in Brixham only a couple of weeks ago, and to think I thought we were friends!  I am of course only joking, if a horse is in a seller, it is there to be bought at the auction after the race - I hope he does well with Vif Argent.

Richard Johnson has made a statement of intent.  He certainly looks like he is going all out to win his first jockeys championship.  Even one of his main rivals, conditional Sean Bowen has tipped Johnson for the title.  If you don't mind waiting almost twelve months to get paid out you can get 11/8 about him and that looks like a knocking bet to me...I don't think that price will last very long.

Apparently Newcastle's interim manager John Carver thinks that he is the best coach in the Premiership even though his side have lost their last eight matches.  If he's the best coach there must be some terrible ones out there!  It seems to me that he has upset most of his team and they don't want to play for him.

It looks like the blues have won the competition - no I am not talking about the Premier League, I am talking about the General Election!  There were some great polling stations on display yesterday - one was a caravan, one was a pub, while there was also a barn, a lido and even a launderette (that was to clean up the vote).  I don't want to get political, but if the Conservatives help racing as they have suggested, it will be a good thing.

Did you know that ninety percent of all extinct species are birds?  You wouldn't have thought that judging by Chester racecourse yesterday!

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