3 Chepstow Runners

There are five meetings taking place this afternoon with jumps cards from Perth, Towcester and Chepstow as well as flat cards from Sandown and Doncaster.  Meanwhile, it is day four of the Punchestown Festival and there is another £552,000 in prize money up for grabs.  David has three runners at Chepstow today; Delface, Dauphine Ereine and Purple 'N Gold.  Delface (pictured above) contests the 2m handicap hurdle at 5.00pm - he is a bit in and out but has some bits and pieces of form that would give him claims under Tom Scu.  Dauphine Ereine drops back to 2m3½f for the handicap chase at 5.50pm following her excellent reappearance effort at Ludlow and she should not be inconvenienced judging by the way she travelled that day - David Noonan is aboard once again.  Our final runner is Purple ' N Gold who has been a great favourite of the yard - he contests the 2m3½f handicap hurdle at 6.25pm, although his best form has come on faster ground.  Stable amateur Rex Dingle takes the ride.

Meanwhile, over in Ireland the trainers' championship looks all but over with Willie Mullins now over £400,000 ahead of Gordon Elliott.  He really needs Samcro to land the Champion Hurdle this afternoon just to stay in touch.  I hope that a few of you followed me and backed Mullins at odds-against back along.  I see that he has 22 runners today - I wonder how many more he has tucked away?

There is excellent racing to look forward to on ITV today with three Group races from Sandown, including a Derby Trial.  It is amazing to think that the first Classics of the flat season take place next week - we haven't even come to the end of the jumps season yet!

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What a terrible end to Arsenal's game last night.  How can they give away a late goal to ten man Athletico Madrid?  Mind you the Gunners did look terrible for much of the match and appear to have run out of ideas.  I am sorry to say it but Wenger's departure cannot come soon enough.

I worry about the Liverpool fans who are talking of going to Rome for the second leg of their Champions League semi-final.  Apparently 5,000 of them are planning on making the journey across.  There is going to be trouble.

Ronnie O'Sullivan's second round match against Ali Carter in the world snooker championship gets underway tonight and while Carter is a quality player, the head-to-head is 16-1 in the Rocket's favour.  7 times champion, Stephen Hendry says that "Ronnie will always be one of, if not the biggest name in the game"...talk about stating the obvious!

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I'm so vain, I joined the Navy so the world could see me! 

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