Summer Sabbatical Day 3

Day three of our summer sabbatical and there are five meetings taking place on the flat today with turf fixtures from Bath, Brighton, Pontefract and Yarmouth and an all-weather flat cards from Kempton.  The best race of the day in terms of quality comes from Pontefract where they have a 0-95 handicap over 2m1f at 3.10pm.  There may be only six runners but they look quite evenly matched.  Mark Johnston's Military Two Step looked good stepped up to this sort of trip on his penultimate start and, the least exposed of these, he could be the answer in this tricky contest.

I see the number of international entries for the Melbourne Cup, Australia's biggest horse race have halved amid new, stricter veterinary checks and ongoing coronavirus restrictions.  Significantly, there are no entries from Aidan O'Brien or Godolphin.  On the plus side though, the locals will be thrilled as the Aussie's hate seeing their big race won by foreign raiders, something that has happened three times in the last four years.

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There has been further medal success for the Brits in the Olympic games this morning with a gold in the women's sailing and  further medals in skateboarding and boxing.   Sky Brown, the bronze medal winner in the women's park skateboarding is just 13 years of age and became the youngest British medal winner in history.  Team GB currently lie in fifth position in the medals table, just one gold behind Australia and have as many gold medals as Germany and France combined, which has to be considered a fantastic achievement.

Harry Kane sat out another day of training at Spurs yesterday.  I can't say I blame him, I wouldn't fancy it much either!  He will probably return later in the week, even though there is no secret over his desire to leave.  Manchester City will have to stump up in the region of £120 million to prize the England skipper away from Spurs.

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A man and a woman were sitting in a restaurant when the waitress noticed the man sliding down his chair under the table.  The woman appeared to be remarkably unconcerned, so the waitress felt she should mention something.
"Excuse me," she said, "I think you husband just slid under the table."
"No," replied the woman coldly.  "He just walked in the door."