Off To Exeter

There are three meetings taking place this afternoon with flat fixtures from Pontefract and Lingfield as well as a jumps card from Exeter.  David has one runner this afternoon as Poisoned Berry contests the 4.50pm race at Exeter; a 2m7f handicap hurdle.  She was a course winner earlier in the season on good ground but would need to improve on her most recent efforts to figure here.  She is a 10/1 chance today for Tom Scudamore.  Tom is joined at Exeter by Conor O'Farrell and David Noonan who have both picked up outside rides at the meeting.

There was a day to remember on the level at Redcar yesterday for Connor Murtagh as he led up a winner in Inviolable Spirit before riding a winner aboard Sir Reginald Brown in the apprentice race.  Meanwhile, also on the flat Shifting Star finished third at Windsor.  Nothing extraordinary in that I hear, but this was his 140th start - just to keep a horse sound to race all those times is an amazing achievement.

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Arsenal were beaten 3-0 by Crystal Palace last night and his team looked absolutely clueless.  Surely the board can see that Wenger has lost the plot?  The fans are up in arms - one of them even had an A4 piece of paper with an anti-Wenger protest on it!  They could probably do with 3 or 4 quality new players but whether they get them or not is another matter.  I am led to believe that Wenger is one of the most stubborn people you will ever meet.  I know he has had his problems, but you have to hand it to Palace Manager Sam Allardyce - he always seems to get teams out of trouble and it always amazes me that he has never been offered a position at one of the big clubs.

Amir Khan says that he wants a warm-up fight before he takes on Kell Brook, saying that he wants to try out his broken hand.  I would have thought that a good sparring session would have taken care of that?  I'm not sure I would risk another fight first - Khan does have a bit of a glass chin and anything could happen.

The bookies have made newly crowned Masters champion Sergio Garcia a 25/1 chance to follow-up in the US Open.  It took him 74 attempts to land a Major so as usual the layers are not giving much away!

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Thought for the day...if you don't think your dog can count, try putting three treats in your pocket and then giving him two of them!

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