Trotter

Plu 1.50 - Sea Invasion Evs Plu 2.20 - Eaton Anne 7/4 Plu 3.20 - Magical Arthur 4/6 Exe 2.00 - Kick Up A Storm 2/1 Exe 3.30 - Jack Sprat 15/8 prices skybet 10 x £2 trebles

3.30 Exe - Jack Sprat - win at 2/1 skybet

Bit weird ......... Just had a quick look at tomorrows cards and Plumpton looks very strange ........ there are 6 races and every one of them has 4 runners Surely that's never happened before ? The only time it might have happened is on an AW card with a maximum field size, say 12 runners, and every race was filled ........ but that's not the same because it would just reflect a maximum field size Tempting to have a crack at going through the card .......... but that would be for tomorrow's thread

Slim Pickings today ........ I've gone for a North Macedonia & Real Oviedo double at 6/4

News Europe's top miler, Charyn, could only finish 5th in his final outing ........ he had a pop at the near £2 million group one race in Kyoto, Japan, before heading to stud the Roger Varian trained grey had a stellar campaign in Europe winning the Queen Anne, Jacques Le Marois and QE11 but found the home team too strong for him today

Font 2.05 - The Southern National Whydah Gally - 11/2 Ladbrokes should have a good chance here ......... yard bang in form, course winner, stays well, finished second on seasonal debut after being hampered, been well backed this morning. Was 14/1 yesterday now down to 9/2 at Skybet with 11/2 available elsewhere

11.30am and no daily thread ........ eek !

Chel 2.55 - Hymac 10/3 and Does He Know 11/2 Chel 3.30 - Dysert Enos 2/1 and Under Control 9/1 prices Ladbrokes 4 x £5 doubles

2.05 Font - Whydah Gally - win at 11/2 wm hill

2.20 Chelt - Il Ridoto - win at 9/1 wm hill

Ffos 3.00 - As Tears Go By - win at 18/1 bet365

129.63 I'm having another crack at getting 'shorties' four-folds up. 12.50 Naas - Zariyann Evens 2.15 Sand - Jeriko du Reponet 4/9 2.35 Naas - Marine Nationale 8/13 3.10 Naas - Farren Glory 4/9 3.25 Sand - Copperhead 7/4 prices skybet 5 times £4 four-folds

hope you get a winner or two and finish 'above the line'!

2.40 Aintree - Outlaw Peter - win at 9/1 bet365

149.63 Winc 2.23 - Handstands 15/8 and Insurrection 2/1 Winc 2.55 - Ribaud 11/10 and Aspire Tower 4/1 prices wm hill 4 x £5 doubles

All in .......... Brighton at 4.40 cheers !

2.25 Exe - Djelo - £20 win at 9/4 wm hill

2.25 Exe - Djelo - win at 9/4 wm hill

won - + 30.00 month + 169.63

Ooh .......... just been notified that I've been upgraded to Level 4 out of 14 ...... 'Regular Member' Only 16 years on the forum and 15,000 posts ........ if I keep this rate up until I'm 150 I might get to level one ............ 😜

Bit surprised they allowed the name 'Deep Purple' as there was a high class chaser called Deep Purple who only finished running 11 years ago ........ he used to regularly win at Grade level including races like the Peterborough Cup at Huntingdon and the Charlie Hall at Wetherby. I think horses that win top level races should have their names protected for more than 10 years !

The big race of the day is the Clonmel Oil Chase (Grade 2) over in Ireland at 2.40. Two and a half miles, good ground, right hand undulating track with a stiff finish The favourite, Saint Sam, has everything going for him ...... trained by Willie Mullins and his only runner in the race, He's had a couple of pipe openers over hurdles, he's won at this level before and at this trip. Ideally suited by small fields where he can get out in front and make all. There's a couple of rank outsiders who look outclassed and a couple of decent ones that are better around two miles and this stiff track should see them floundering in the finish The main danger therefore is Fakir D'Oudairies who won this race 3 years ago and won a Grade 2 race last season ........ but he's not been performing in good form lately and had been drifting this morning in the betting. So it all points to the jolly old Fav ......... 2.40 Clonmel - Saint Sam - win at 6/4 bet365

2.40 Clon - Saint Sam - £20 win at 6/4 bet365

2.40 Clon - Saint Sam - win at 6/4 bet365

3.50 Nott - Wanderlust - win at 7/4 wm hilll Sir Michael Stoute's final runner ..... seems a bit incongruous that the great man should go out in a class 6 handicap with a horse with not much form and rated 62 However it happens a lot that jockeys and trainers win with their last runner ........ maybe there's an unspoken gentleman's agreement for the others not to try too hard ........... 👀 So it's farewell to the 10 times Champion Trainer, winner of six Derbies, five 2000 Gns, two 100o Gns, two Oaks, a St Leger ...... plus 13 Irish Classics, an Arc, two Japan Cups, eight Breeders Cup races.......... and a Champion Hurdle ! One of the all time greats ............