General Runs At Rasen

It is a busy day with seven meetings taking place with flat fixtures from Newbury, Ripon, Newmarket, Doncaster and Bath while there are jumps cards from Perth and Market Rasen.  David has one runner today as Three Star General contests the 2m7f handicap hurdle at 7.30pm.  The form of our runner looks rock solid - he won a maiden hurdle at Worcester (from a subsequent winner) on good ground before finishing runner-up to another subsequent winner, also at Worcester on his latest start.  He runs from a mark of 119 and is partnered by stable jockey Tom Scudamore - he looks sure to go close.

Meanwhile champion jockey Richard Johnson could be the man to beat at Perth where he has picked up five rides - I can quite easily see three of them collecting.

I was watching the racing from Newbury yesterday and an almighty thunderstorm meant that the second race had to be delayed.  The trainers and jockeys did manage to catch up so it goes to show that there doesn't need to be such long intervals between races, something which I think needs looking into in order to make the sport more popular with the younger generations.

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With the West Indies in town to take on England in the test cricket, I see that Rishi Persad has nominated his five favourite West Indian cricketers as Viv Richards, Brian Lara, Malcolm Marshall, Michael Holding and Carl Hooper - I am not so sure about the last one although the first four would get into any world class eleven.  You certainly couldn't say the same about their current side, indeed I think a few of them would struggle to get into a county side - the only thing that could save them from defeat is rain.

I will be having a sneaky little double on Leicester at 8/11 and Bournemouth at evens to put the bread on the table in the Barnes' household this weekend.  The rest of the matches look tricky to me.

World number one and world champion snooker player Mark Selby crashed out of the China Open to a 19 year old player by the name of Zhou Yuelong.  Snooker is another one of those sports where there are so many good players that can cause an upset on any given day.  Furthermore, snooker is a massive sport in the far East and results like this can only increase it's popularity.

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So what if I don't know what Armageddon means, it's not like it's the end of the world!

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