Uttoxeter Runner

There are five meetings taking place this afternoon with flat cards from Catterick, Lingfield, Yarmouth and Sandown as well as a jumps card from Uttoxeter.  We will name and shame Lingfield today as they are offering the sum total of £30,000 in prize money across their seven race card - I wonder which course will dare to go under £30k?  Perhaps the bookmakers should run a book on it!  Anyway, I'm off on one again...David has one runner today as Lady Of Longstone (pictured above) contests the 2m7 1/2f handicap hurdle at Uttoxeter at 3.35pm.  She has to carry top weight of 11-12 less Michael Heard's 5lbs claim.  She ran a good race last week when a close third and is well-treated from a mark of 115 based on the best of her form and she looks to have decent claims this afternoon.

Nice Thoughts finished fourth in the seller at Worcester last night and was subsequently claimed for £5,000 by Mark Shears.  I thought he ran well for a long way although his finishing effort was not convincing - even so, he suggested that he should be up to winning one of these.

I see that former Pond House conditional and Cheltenham Festival winning jockey Hadden Frost is 27 today.  He was victorious aboard the likes of Mamlook and Buena Vista for the stable back during his riding career.  I have never been so frightened as when I once shared a lift with Hadden back from the races...never again!  Anyway, many happy returns to him.

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What about England's cricketers?  They beat South Africa by two wickets with two balls to spare...I am actually talking about the ladies who have now progressed to the final of the Women's World Cup Final.  I hate to admit it, but it was an exciting game and I wish them well for the final.

I didn't know that professional golfer Callum Shinkwin had a couple of fights and that many members of his family are ex-pro boxers.  He should have little trouble therefore going the four rounds at Birkdale!

How can any footballer be worth £190 million?  That is what Paris Saint-Germain could be paying for Newmar from Barcelona.  Where do PSG get that sort of money from?

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I had a horse once, he didn't go out very much.  He was a shire horse!

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