Scott

Last week was a frustrating week for us. A couple of winners, which was nice, but then we also had three second places at far nicer prices than our winners. The most frustrating of all was noting that Village Vic was looking good in the handicap but plumping for Champagne West on his handicap debut, … Read more

I’m not sure if there’s anything worth note to mention in the opening paragraph this week. I mean, yeah, Manchester United lost to Bournemouth, Manchester City just scraped a win over Swansea… Oh, who am I kidding? Chelsea lost to league leaders Leicester, and then Jose Mourinho got his marching orders. It had been coming … Read more

The weather caused havoc to the racing last week, with the going becoming far worse than expected overnight. All the racing at Sandown and Aintree became real slogs, with some confusing results, although Sire De Grugy winning the Tingle Creek was a nice return to form for the star. Sure, he wasn’t winning by a … Read more

The English Premiership season just gets weirder and weirder. Seriously. What happened last week? Well, only Manchester City losing to Stoke quite convincingly and then Chelsea losing to Bournemouth later the same day. Oh, and Manchester United drew 0-0 with West Ham, too. So Leicester are top of the league, looking strong, and Arsenal are … Read more

It was hard to get a good gauge on what last weekend’s racing told us. The ground at Newbury and Newcastle was bottomless, it was made for mudlarks and, come Cheltenham, we’re hopefully not going to see too much in the way of the deluges that we’ve seen of late in the UK. Still, it … Read more

What was the story of last weekend’s English Premiership action? Well, it can be only one thing, and that was Jamie Vardy getting on the scoresheet once again, this time against Manchester United in Leicester’s 1-1 draw. Vardy just continues to make headlines, and it’s for all the right reasons, which is a great advert … Read more