No Runners Sunday!

There are no runners for the stable today with just the one jumps card up at Musselburgh, day two of their big weekend meeting.  There are two flat all-weather meetings at Lingfield and Newcastle while in Ireland it is day two of the Dublin Racing Festival at Leopardstown.  There are another four Grade 1 races at Leopardstown with the Irish Champion hurdle at 2.45pm.  This is a re-match between State Man and Impaire Et Passe and I expect Stateman to confirm his position ahead of his stablemate. El Fabiolo is a short priced favourite for the Dublin chase over two miles at 2.10pm where Willie Mullins has four of the five runners in the race.

It is a similar story in the Grade 1 novices chase over 2m5f at 1.10pm.  There is a quality field of five runners, three belonging to Willie, the other two to Gordon Elliott.  Gaelic Warrior is a short priced favourite over fellow stable mates Fact to File and Grangeclare West.  The handicap races on the card have plenty more runners and look pretty competitive.  It looks a good card also at Musselbugh and at Newcastle this evening where the racing gets underway at 5pm for an eight race card and there are good field sizes for every race. 

There is point to point action at Larkhill today which features the Coronation Gold Cup Mixed Open race at 2.30pm.  There are only 11 entries but it promises to be competitive with a mixture of some good older horses with a couple of up and coming younger types as well.  Amateur Martin McIntyre has a few rides so I shall let you know if he has any winners tomorrow!

It was a good start for Ireland in the Six Nations rugby on Friday evening as they beat France in Marseille 38-17.  It was there biggest ever win away against a 14 man France and they have to be strong favourites to win the whole thing.

There are four Premier League matches today, three of them kicking off at 2pm, Bournemouth v Nottingham Forest, Chelsea v Wolves and Manchester United at home to West Ham.  There is a good top of the table game at 4.30pm with Arsenal at home to Liverpool. 

In the second cricket test in India, England struggled in their first innings batting chasing 369 set by the home side but it is still all to play for going into the last two days. 

In the golf at Pebble Beach, Rory McIlroy is not troubling the leaders at half way, 12 shots off the co-leaders of Ludvig Aberg, Thomas Detry and Scottie Scheffler who are -11.

Someone broke into my house last night and stole my limbo trophy.

How low can you go?!

Have a good Sunday!