Pair At Kempton

There are three meetings taking place this afternoon with jumps action coming from Kempton, Ludlow and Plumpton.  Somehow Plumpton manage to get away with just £27,000 in prize money across their six race card...you can draw your own conclusions on that one!  If you live up north and like a bit of racing, sadly you are out of luck.  The stable has two runners this afternoon at Kempton; Low Key and Houston Dynimo.  Low Key has won his last two starts over hurdles at Fontwell and Stratford, while he has also won the Cesarewitch Trial on the level.  This looks like a good race for the £12,346 prize money with dual King George Chase winner Silviniaco Conti heading the weights - Low Key is receiving plenty of weight on only 10-4 and he should run a big race under Conor O'Farrell.  Our other runner, Houston Dynimo has been running okay during the summer but he would need to improve on recent efforts to figure here.

The stable runners performed creditably over the weekend with Dynaste and Ballynagour finishing second and third respectively in the Charlie Hall Chase at Wetherby on Saturday behind a resurgent Cue Card.  Both of our runners look set for another good season.  Unanimité finished second, beaten only 3/4 length in the Listed handicap hurdle at Ascot and but for a bad mistake at the last, he would have gone even closer.  It was a similar story at Carlisle yesterday as a last flight blunder cost Shotavodka his chance of glory.  We hit the crossbar a few times over the weekend, hopefully David will be able to find something similar for those before too long.

The latest in our series of stable staff interviews with ace broadcaster Mike Vince features conditional jockey Kieron Edgar.  To find out which horse to follow Kieron has nominated for the forthcoming National Hunt season, take a look at the video below... 

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Watching the football over the weekend, it looks as though Sam Allardyce will have his work cut out to keep Sunderland in the Premiership.  They were beaten 6-2 by Everton over the weekend and it could have been more.  He must have been offered a massive bonus to go there.

Surely England cannot keep selecting Wayne Rooney?  The player is so badly out of form - I didn't even realise he was playing on Saturday against Crystal Palace.  He's a striker who cannot score and there is no place for people like that on the national side...I'm not even sure he should be playing for United!

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I see that Tiger Woods former caddie Steve Williams has just released a hard-hitting autobiography in which he discloses that Woods "treated him like a slave".  Bearing in mind that Williams was New Zealand's highest paid sportsman (and he didn't actually have to compete), I would be inclined to let Woods treat me like a slave for that kind of wage too!

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Talking of books, I have just had a book published about Halloween, mind you I did have a ghost writer!

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