Weekend Jottings!

There are three meetings taking place this afternoon - a flat card at Musselburgh and two National Hunt fixtures at Plumpton and Towcester.  The stable has one runner at Plumpton; Dan Breen who takes his chance in the Sussex Champion Hurdle.  Our nine year old (pictured above) is well-treated on old form, the trouble is that he hasn't been in such good form of late.  If you could turn the clock back a couple of years to when he was in the frame of top handicaps such as the Ladbroke, he would win this from his present mark...let's hope for a renaissance this afternoon.

If you are thinking of going racing to Plumpton, make sure you check out the seafood stall that belonged to Barrie Cope.  I think it still trades under the same name, but the fish they used to sell was absolutely out of this world.  It was always Martin's favourite place for food - the smoked salmon and prawns comes very highly recommended.

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It is a great day for football fans with some really exciting matches taking place.  Everton play Manchester United, Hull take on Arsenal and Norwich face Liverpool.  I reckon the Premier League is currently the only division in the world where the bottom teams can determine the outcome of the title.  Chelsea had a must win game yesterday, while Arsenal and Liverpool need to win today to keep their title hopes alive.  Personally, I hope that Liverpool can win their first title in over twenty years...do you reckon I might have had a few quid on them?  A cockney supporting Liverpool - I wonder what my mates in the East-end would be saying?!

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I see that Prime Minister David Cameron has been stung by a jellyfish while swimming off Lanzarote.  I hope the jellyfish was okay!  It can be quite nasty when you sting a Prime Minister...I wonder if it was a Man 'O War?!

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Over in America a man by the name of Edward Cocaine faces drug charges in Fort Lauderdale.  The judge told the accused that he was 'a dope'...you just couldn't make these stories up!

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