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I have very stupidly given my PA time off for a holiday, so hope it's ok if i just type them up this time. 
1350 - Flora Of Bermuda @ 8-1 
1425 - We Never Stop @ 18-1 
1500 - Cruyff Turn @ 28-1 
1610 - Makinmedoit @ 16-1 
10p ew 
 

Caroline Garcia to beat Lin Zhu at 1.53 with William Hill
Garcia needs some sort of a confidence boost again, and she's been doing well so far this week in a tournament that she can definitely win. Zhu is one of those players that usually beat players under their level, but struggle against the bigger names - and I think she'll struggle against this one as well.

York 1.50 Todays fayre kicks off with a fifteen runner 1m 4F Heritage Handicap run over 1M 4F. Ralph Beckett is having a stellar season and his three year old Balance Play can complete a hat trick of victories following success’s at Chester and Goodwood rising some 12lb in the weights. He still looks some way ahead of his mark and stepping up a furlong today looks sure to suit. Hector Crouch has ridden the chestnut on both of his wins and retains the ride today in which the Fahey horse Wootton’Sun can also run well.   BALANCE PLAY 1 point win @ 4/1 Betfred   York 2.25 Just seven line up for the 2M 56 yard Group 2 Lonsdale Cup which features five that ran in the Goodwood Cup where Hughie Morrison’s stable star Quickthorn ran them ragged. He did the same in this race last year winning by 14 lengths but you would think that the other jockeys will be very much on alert this time around not to give him too much rope. Andrew Balding’s Coltrane is ultra consistent having finished runner up in the Ascot Gold Cup over half a mile further to the re-opposing Courage Mon Ami, beaten just 3/4L and is today 4lb better off. He looks sure to run his race and he’s a tentative pick.   COLTRANE 1 point win @ 11/4 William Hill   York 3.00 The Group 2 Gimcrack Stakes for two year old colts and geldings features ten promising sprinting juveniles with no stand out pick. There is question marks against a few of the leading ones in the market here and it maybe worth taking a chance on the once raced maiden winner King’s Gamble trained by the very much in form Ralph Beckett. A son of Kingman he ran out a cosy winner of a Newmarket novice stakes on his debut earlier this month and although this is a big step up he can repay an each way wager by hitting the frame at least.   KING’S GAMBLE 1 point each way @ 9/1 BetVictor 1/5th 123   York 3.35 A great renewal of the Group One Coolmore Wootton Bassett Nunthorpe Stakes, run over the minimum trip of 5F. The two year old Big Evs is a very interesting runner getting so much weight from all and it will be no shock were he to run a big race here. The pick though has to be John Quinn’s super mare Highfield Princess who took this field apart last year coming home 2 1/2L to the good from last year’s two year old The Platinum Queen. She looked as good as ever when blitzing her field in the King George Stakes at Goodwood and will be very hard to beat here.   HIGHFIELD PRINCESS 3 points win @ 6/4 bet365   York 4.10 A valuable 12 1/2F fillies handicap is next up with last year’s runner up Amanzoe heading the weights although she hasn’t been seen since but is not without claims. Owen Burrows is having an excellent season and can take this tricky contest with his three year old Rowayeh who takes a step up two furlongs to a mile and a quarter today for the first time. She’s very much a Shadwell horse on breeding and there’s no reason to think she won’t stay this far on that score. A dual winner earlier in the season she wasn’t disgraced when third in a valuable Goodwood handicap at the beginning of the month, form which has already been boosted by the runner up Novus winning since.   ROWAYEH 1 point win @ 11/4 bet365   York 4.45 The most valuable maiden run this year is the Convivial maiden which sees fifteen promising two year old’s assemble over 7F. Six of the fifteen are debutants and worth monitoring in the market but the pick here is Ollie Sangster’s Kings Valley who showed up really well on his racecourse debut when third to the subsequent listed winner Arabian Crown, beaten 3L at Sandown. The son of Territories was very green that day and with that run under his belt can go close today as long as his draw on the wing in stall 14 is not an inconvenience.   KINGS VALLEY 1 point win @ 7/2 bet365     York 5.15 Day three’s card finishes with a twelve runner 1M three year old handicap featuring a dozen horses. The most unexposed horse and one that’s worth giving a chance to is the Roger Varian trained Enfjaar. He looked another Shadwell owned horse of immense potential when bolting up at Chelmsford on the all-weather back in May, coming home 6L to the good from his ten rivals. He took a step up in grade a month later when running in the Group 3 Jersey Stakes dropping in trip to 7F. that may have been his undoing when only finishing a slightly disappointing eleventh of 15 (beaten 9 1/4L). Back to a mile and in a handicap for the first time, this Lope De Vega colt can get himself back into the winners enclosure under David Egan who replaces the suspended Jim Crowley.   ENFJAAR 1 point win @ 4/1 bet365  

Day 2 picks
 

0 returns! Well that was bad... 🤣 this is why I usually avoid York , but just a bit of fun 😅

12/1 winner returned just £1.64. The rest nowhere. 

888 Sport have Dubois by stoppage at 11/1 so I cashed out bet365 and took that.

Go and collect.

12/1 winner returned just £1.64. The rest nowhere. 

York day 1 picks
 

Go and collect.

😎 thank you Tabor for interview and saying Paddington 'too short' !........so backed Mostahdaf again at 3/1 🐎💷

Hills going evens (tenner max) for Ryan Moore to ride a winner today. Seems worth it given that one of his rides is odds on.

The final meeting of the season is at Ballarat on Sunday so I have done the totals for the season ahead of it. I have staked 93pts and the returns are 98.71 so a small profit for the season so far. Hopefully it will go in the right direction on Sunday and I can make it another profitable season.

Done a quid too 🤑🤑🤑

Equilateral                                  1 50 Yrk/                         1/40th of a pt ew   14/1           - WON
Coralillo                                       4 45 Yrk/                         1/40th of a pt ew   33/1
Zanndabad                                 4 10 Yrk/                         1/20th of a pt ew    9/1
Bergerag                                      1 50 Yrk/                         1/40th of a pt ew   25/1
Themaxwecan                            4 10 Yrk/                         1/40th of a pt ew    22/1
 
Spencer from the clouds on Equilateral 😀
 
 
P/L  + 168.80 pts
 

It's a quid more than I'd get on such an offer with 365!

Got to be stall 2 for me, strangely 3 of them ridden by Ryan Moore, does he have a say in the draw !
2.25 BALLYMOUNT BOY
3.00 CONTINUOUS
3.35 PADDINGTON
4.10 ZANNDABAD
 
 

And mine - better than his! 10p ew
 

York day 1 picks
 

York day 1 picks
 

York day 1 picks
 

I'm quietly optimistic we can beat Sheffield Wednesday but we'll need to play more like a home team and take the attack to the Owls. We made the mistake of sitting back and playing a patient game against QPR in our last home game and we got sucker-punched. Wednesday will do the same. I know a few Wednesday fans are pessimistic about it. @waynecoyne, how do you feel about it?