Blank Jumps Saturday

       Barton Stacey & Terfels Toscar
Unfortunately todays racing at Ffos Las has been lost to the freezing weather.  Despite the covers being down on the entire course for a few days the frost has penetrated underneath and temperatures are not expected to rise quickly enough to allow racing to take place.  I think it is great they have made an early decision, so well done to clerk of Tim Long and his team as now everyone knows what they are doing.  Our horses had just been loaded on the lorry to set off but they did not leave the yard!  I have no doubt Ffos Las was giving the meeting every chance as Dai Walters who ownes the course also owned the favourite of the Welsh Champion hurdle and he was strongly fancied  to win this afternoon.  There is a slight possibility the meeting maybe be rescheduled to take place tomorrow but no decision have been made as yet so when we have more information about this we will let you know.  You would think that maybe one day some courses may come up with a way to keep the tacks raceable.  What about underground heating, heating like they have at some football pitches?  This is probably a silly idea as it would be extremely expensive and may not even be possible!  How about a cover that you can blow up?  We can get onto the moon but we cannot invent something to keep the ground raceable, I am sure someone is on the case!

Temperatures were slightly warmer this morning at Pond House, only -5c again but it does feel a fair bit warmer than yesterday!  I know a lot of the country is expecting snow at some point today but it does look like we may escape the worst of it which will be good.  Thankfully the weather has not hindered the horses on the gallops at all, we have just had a few little problems with frozen pipes but everyone has been working hard and keeping things running smoothly.

I see there is money for our runner Junior in the Grand National.  He was cut from 16/1 to 12/1 with William Hills so hunt around and try to get bigger than 12/1 in you are interested in backing him.

In the cricket it looks like the bowlers are a lot better than the batsmen in this test.  16 wickets fell in a day and to me the pitch did not look that bad.  Pakistan were all out for 99 while in England's innings they are 104 for 6.  I do not think it will be a five day test anyway, maybe the players are going sight seeing for a couple of days!

My football treble this week is Charlton 4/9, Sheffield Wednesday 4/7 and West Ham 8/13.  It looks like three good things to me.