Flicking through Apps. Looking for a forecast that gives hope and fits with plans. Impossible – especially when some places are getting “monsoonal” whilst “negligible” falls down the road…
Andrew Cooper, Clerk Of The Course both here and at Sandown, highlighting the impossibility of dealing with weather forecasts that suggest rainfall of “between 2 mm and 20 mm”. And looking at overhead photographs of some jumps courses, they are going to need a lot of help from those mercurial and pesky Weather Gods….
Cheltenham looking more like the Serengeti than the home of jump racing…
Typically, our weekend plans are filled with some horses that would love some rain – and others that would prefer the skies to remain clear and the ground fast. Mix and match…
All being well, and given no extremes of ground, lorries will head to Goodwood, Chepstow and Windsor tomorrow. And then back to Goodwood on Sunday. Epsom for the Amateur Derby on Monday – Patrick Mullins flying over for Gordon Grey, and Simon Walker on Cumulonimbus. The two best amateur jockeys across these lands…
Grateful to blog reader Ian Bellingham who was in touch yesterday. Apparently, our new Chair Simon Cox does not slip into the role until 1st October. Which explains the Trappist silence…??!!
Another month of BHA “silence” I guess before we get a sense of Simon’s plans, thoughts and aspirations….
No runners yesterday or today – and so to Lords once the morning’s work is done…
Pakistan fighting back with the ball, and some attritional “old school” Test batting in the afternoon that would have had Sir Geoffrey Boycott purring with delight. A fine line between “old school” and “not going anywhere”, but I think England will be the happier team at close of play as they sit on the cusp of 250 runs…
Today will be pivotal. England’s bowlers fire on a helpful pitch, and it might all be pretty torrid for the Pakistani batsmen. But this could be the best day to bat given the forecasts, and so plenty to play for…
