Over to France

   Ballynagour Winner at Auteuil Last Year

There are six meetings today, flat cards at Haydock, Goodwood, York, Newmarket and Chepstow plus a jumps card at Stratford.  David does not not have any runners in this country but we do have two in France!  David runs two at Auteuil in the French Champion hurdle trial at 4.55pm (French time, 3.55pm English time).  There are 13 runners in the valuable contest and eight of them are from England and Ireland!  Ballynagour won this race last year and is the mount of Tom Scu while James Revely rides Gevrey Chambertin.  I think the reason there so many English runners might be to do with the fact that David enjoyed a successful raid to France last summer and it has encouraged others to try their luck with such good prize money on offer.  Ballynagour is 12/1 in the betting and I think the race is tougher than it was 12 months ago.  Gevrey Chambertin is 33/1 but he will love the very soft ground.  Lets just hope they both run well as there is good prize money down to sixth place.  I don't think I would like to be flying over to France today as the weather doesn't look too good.  Good luck David with the horses as well!

The big race in Ireland today is the 2000 Guineas at 5.40pm.  Air Force Blue ran below form 21 days ago at Newmarket.  I thought Galileo Gold looks impressive when winning last time and is the one they all have to beat with Frankie Dettori on board.

England are on top in the cricket.  Sri Lanka were bowled out for 91 and were made to follow on.  Our fast bowler James Anderson swung the ball all over the place and looked unplayable at times.  The visitors need the rain for three days to give them any chance of a draw.

There are two cup finals on today.  Rangers should be backed at 17/20 to win the Scottish final and Man United at 3/4 to win the English one.  I don't like the idea of a 5.30 Cup final, why do we have to change so many of these starting times?  I hope you followed me and backed Brendan Rogers to be the next Celtic manager.

Give a man a free hand and he'll try and put it all over you.  Mae West.  Have a nice day.