Warmth in the early hours, but not the raging heat of the past few days…

Change is in the wind. Variable weather patterns and the Gulf stream doing Gulf stream stuff…

Driving over The Downs just now, and past the soaring marquees and stages, we said how perfect it would be if Derby Day were to dawn like this…

Weather Apps busy – but who really knows this far out what that Gulf Stream thingy will do…??

Kempton last night. One of those bags that were mixed….

Good. Bad. Confusing. Annoying. Promising. Frustrating. Encouraging. Eye catching. Eye watering. Highs. Lows…

The way of it…

And five runners were always likely to bring the full range of contrasting emotions…

Sid Waddell. Commentating on the darts and Jocky Wilson. ‘His face is a kaleidoscope of contrasting emotions as he strides to the oche…’

We raged through several contrasting emotions last night…

The rolling of the eyes and the skywards glance…

But also plenty of good. And plenty to look forward to…

No runners today..

Colonies of worker ants hard at it across Epsom Downs. Ladders. Scaffolding. High towers. Wood fences. Signs and posts. Those mowers mowing hard. A week more…

I backed Benny…