Horses for Sale
- Sunday, 19 June 2016 00:00
- Written by Chelsea Morgan
There are three meetings taking place this afternoon with flat action from Pontefract and a couple of jumps fixtures from Hexham and Worcester. There are two National Hunt meetings today, yet none yesterday on racing's busiest day of the week...go figure! Tom Scudamore has a low mileage car for sale. He is off to Hexham today for the mount aboard Cork Citizen in the 3 mile handicap chase at 3.30pm. He won a fortnight ago and this stiff track will suit him - there is good prize money on offer too, with over £6,000 up for grabs. He should go well once again. David also runs Twentytwo's Taken (pictured above) at Worcester in the 2m4f handicap hurdle. David Noonan is in the saddle as he was when she was successful last time at Exeter and his claim reduces her weight to 10-8. This is a more competitive contest as you would expect for the £12,000 prize money although another good run is expected. I was only joking about Tom Scu's car by the way!
I see Simon Yates will miss the Tour de France having been banned from cycling for four months for a non-intentional positive drugs test. I cannot believe these riders do not know what they are taking. If somebody gave you a tablet to take, would you not want to know what was in it? I certainly would!
IBF heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua has said that he will do the "Ali Shuffle" in his next fight against Dominic Breazeale. I saw Ali fight in Las Vegas and I think if I were Joshua I would leave that well alone. Nobody needs a pale imitation of the original - Lewis Hamilton tried it after his Grand Prix win last weekend and he just ended up looking silly.
The manager of the Russian football team Leonid Slotski has complained to the manager of his team's hotel as the maids were taking too long to hoover his suite for his liking. It is not the first time at Euro 2016 that he has been left frustrated by a Slo-vak!
Talking of the football, there are two matches taking place this afternoon as Romania take on Albania and Switzerland play France. The French look worth a wager at even money.
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