Weekend Double!

It was a good weekend for the stable with a nice winner on the flat at Salisbury on Saturday night and another over the sticks at Uttoxeter yesterday.  Starchitect was our flat winner and he won the 1m6f handicap with something in hand and it would be easy to see him winning again and it will be interesting to see if he makes the cut for the Ascot Stakes at Royal Ascot next month.  Meanwhile, Perspicace followed-up his recent victory with a good performance at Uttoxeter under the welter burden of 12-1.  He went up 8lbs for his last win, I hope he doesn't go up by another 8lbs!

We have five meetings taking place this afternoon with flat action from Windsor, Leicester and Redcar as well as two jumps fixtures from Cartmel and Huntingdon.  David runs Willem at Huntingdon in the 2.35pm race, a two mile novices' chase.  He is proving difficult to win with but he ran another good race when second at Fakenham last time on his chasing debut.  This looks a harder race on paper and the Henderson trained Nicolas Chauvin looks to be the one to beat.

David Noonan and Conor O'Farrell travel up to Cartmel this afternoon for one ride and something will have to give with the theory about jockeys with one ride at a meeting as both of them have a mount in the same race.  It was a great day for David Noonan yesterday as he rode a treble at Fontwell and he now leads the conditional jockeys championship by three...well done to him.  There was a good attendance to witness it too, with Fontwell recording 9,987 people through the turnstiles - a great effort by a small track to get so many people attending.

Meanwhile, it was good to see Jane Gerard-Pearse collect the big prize at Uttoxeter yesterday that was run in memory of her parents, the late Sir Stanley and Lady Hilda Clarke.  Jane is a lovely lady and always makes me smile with her lovely, smiley face and terrific sense of humour.

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Can you believe it?  Enlgand's cricketers are going to have to play a fourth day against Sri Lanka.  That has messed up a day's golf for a lot of our cricketers!

What a fight last night as Tony Bellow became world champion.  He was knocked down in the first round yet got up and won by a knock-out.  It was in the open air at Everton's football ground.

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Thought for the day.  Unfortunately I have reached that age where people who are only my age are looking old!

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