Racing Post Stable Tour

You may already have seen that David is on the cover of today's Racing Post as he kicks off the stable tours season with an in-depth interview about his horses for the coming jumps season.  There is a great eight page supplement with today's paper by Ben Newton and it is certainly worth a read.  Without wanting to spoil things too much I will tell you that Un Temps Pour Tout, Moon Racer and Ballynagour have been selected among the 'star quality' - no great surprises there, although you will have to pick up a copy if you want to know what he has to say about them and the others here at Pond House.

There are three meetings taking place this afternoon with flat cards from Pontefract and Windsor, while it is Moorcroft Day over the sticks at Plumpton.  Moorcroft do an excellent job re-homing and retraining racehorses and can only continue with the help of charitable donations so do go along and support them if you are anywhere near Plumpton today.  The stable has no runners this afternoon.

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I hope that a few of you followed my punting advice last week - if so you would have had a great time of it!  I tipped winners of the cricket, boxing, football and even horse racing!  Having said that, I was getting a little anxious about the outcome of the cricket as England looked to get themselves in a position to win the match.  Fortunately (for my pocket!) the Pakistanis slowed things down and then bad light saved them.

Meanwhile my 13/8 about Newcastle looked good as they won 6-2 against Norwich, even so I think they are still in for a very tough, long season.  Tonight it's Swansea versus Stoke at 8pm on Sky.  Swansea look to be a decent side and at odds of 21/20, I could be tempted to have a little investment as I am sure they are going to score goals.

I see Alan Shearer says that Aston Villa must give their manager Tim Sherwood a bit of time - that is the one thing that football managers do not have.  The chairman wants results and if the manager cannot deliver them he will be given his marching orders (and a nice pay-off)!

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What do you call someone with someone with sausages in their hair?  A head banger!  Keep smiling...