Horns of a Dilema

I had long planned to revisit one of my favourite racecourses, Wincanton, today. It is a long trek but invariably worth it.

Suddenly, last night, I became torn – Saturday was also the climax of the flat season at Donny, Doncaster if you didn’t know.

Normally it is a no brainer decision when it comes to choosing between a decent jump meeting and any flat meeting. However this decision was different, the climax of the flat season was unusually exciting with two jockeys, Jamie Spencer and Seb Sanders both in with a real chance of winning the title. At the end of racing on Friday Sanders was one ahead and both had plenty of rides at Doncaster.

In the end Wincanton won in terms of being graced by my presence and it was a great day out, despite the 276 mile round trip. As an added bonus it turned out to be a profitable day, backing five winners and having a juicy forecast as well.

Meanwhile at Donny it was getting really exciting. For a blow by blow account take a look at http://www.ors-racing.co.uk/Jockey_Title.html .

It is not very often that jockeys championships go to the last day, yet alone the last race of the season. With all the recent bad publicity it is really nice to have racing appearing in news bulletins for all the right reasons.

Most of the racing coverage outside (and indeed inside) the racing press at the moment concerns the “Fallon trial” – once it is over I will have a lot to say on that topic. However I will keep quiet for now, lest I end up before the Justice on a contempt of court charge.

Originally I had hoped that Seb Sanders would win the title, however now it is over I think the tie is the best possible result and it was good to see both of them being so sporting and gracious to each other at the end.

Now I am knackered, it has been a long week, with a lot of racing and plenty of miles on the clock. Tomorrow will be a rare lie in and I am looking forward to it.

Every racecourse this week has been freezing cold – I really am going to have to invest in some thermals. But now I am off to bed, nite nite.