Blind Beggar, costly and vexing for owners (and punters!) has an excellent opportunity to finally get off the mark in a weak-looking nine-runner Novice Stakes over five furlongs of Newcastle tapeta tonight; can you wait, all day?This consistent, hitherto luckless Equiano gelding, placed three times in succession as a two-year-old,Continue Reading

ON GATHER IN GASTORM (6/5) and VOICE OF CALM (5/2) carried on the winning thread for this column but did champion jockey Brian Hughes  ride moderately on a couple of Kelso rides which impacted severely on profits for this column.Twice Hughes sat and waited approaching the last furlong on PRESENTINGContinue Reading

KNAPPERS HILL (8/1 and better!), struck and was napped by Jeffrey Ross in the final (bumper) race at Aintree, Saturday to follow up heavily-backed Promtissimo at the end of a dramatic week. Now it’s all systems go for Newmarket’s ‘Craven’ meeting.  Military Mission is strongly-fancied to retrieve last time outContinue Reading

Presentandcounting has disappointed too many times for serious punters to make Donald McCain’s charge an automatic odds-on favourite for a thirteen-runner Novices’ Hurdle  over two and a quarter miles of a ‘good’ Kelso surface this afternoon; there’s a fine line between courage and stupidity! Mention of this fact relates toContinue Reading