Huntingdon, Donny Runners

Today we have four meetings taking place with jumps action from Huntingdon and Doncaster as well as two all-weather flat cards from Lingfield and Wolverhampton.  David runs Spending Time in the 2.00pm race at Doncaster - it is a three mile handicap chase and the Post have put him in as a 10/1 chance.  He was pulled up last time out but had previously been successful at Huntingdon and was runner-up at Wincanton to Aachen (now rated 151!) in between so he is not without hope given a clear round.  Conor O'Farrell, who has won aboard him is in the saddle this afternoon.  There are plenty of runners at the meeting with lots of trainers looking to get runs into their horses with the Cheltenham Festival getting ever nearer.  Over at Huntingdon David is represented by Taj Badalandabad who won four times last season.  He should be sharper for his first outing of the season last month and he could go well.

Always the innovators, bookmaker Paddy Power has devised a betting slip that you can wash and iron.  It sounds like laundered money to me!  I wonder what on earth they will come up with next?  A betting slip that fills in it's own winners would be nice!

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I know I have been harping on about it a lot in recent weeks, but watching Sky Sports it would seem that plenty of the Premiership managers agree with me that touchline technology should be introduced to reduce the number of refereeing errors.  The Sterling cross that clearly went out of play in the Capital One semi-final has bought matters to a head.  The only problem with introducing technology is that it would also need to be used for off-side decisions and that may get overly-technical.  I don't see the problem - it has certainly improved the decisions in both cricket and tennis.

There is a big match on tonight between Derby and Manchester United and United are available to back at even money...have they really gone that far back?  Having offered to go recently, manager Louis Van Gaal has state that he will not quit his post.  He wouldn't get a big pay-off if he quit, so he is clearly not stupid!

Sadly Jo Konta lost her semi-final of the Australian Open to the number seven seed, although she looks like a very good prospect for the future.  She is certainly the best British lady tennis player for a number of years, although she does hold an Australian, Hungarian and British passport!  I wonder if there might be some sort of bidding war between the nations for her services?!  I am just going to sit down and watch Andy Murray in the men's semi-final - I had better hide the remote from Mrs Barnes!

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How do you make a blonde laugh on a Sunday?  Tell her a joke on a Wednesday!

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