Tuesday’s Selections & Results – 23 August

Only two winners today but at least George Baker won!

George Baker - a fine figure of a man horse

One of the system picks today is George Baker - ridden by George Baker, trained by George Baker, owned by George Baker ... not bred by George Baker though.  He’s won three times from the past four runnings (the horse that is) but never when ridden by George Baker but there’s a first time for everything (even if it’s not the use of the name).  


Since he was pulled from a race last week (same jockey booking), you have to imagine that he’s ready for a big run – at the time of writing (11:04 Monday night) the price on Betfair is 4.3 and I can imagine that this will shorten considerably if he’s expected to win!  

Barry Hills signed off his training career on a high on Saturday with his last ever runner (One Lucky Lady) winning at Bath.  Today his son Charlie, who has taken over the license had a win with his first ever runner – Blaise Chorus at Kempton which was swiftly followed by a double at Windsor.  A nice seamless transfer which I reckon a few football clubs could only dream of.

Today’s system selections are:

Leicester

15:00   Brave Dream (11.5) UP

15:30   Spanish Bounty (3.25) UP

16:30   George Baker (4.4) 1^st

Warwick

17:30   Noverre To Go (2.34) 1^st

Yarmouth

18:50   South African Gold (6.2) UP

19:20   Negotiation (8) UP

19:50   Flame Of Hestia (2.7) 2^nd

^{With only the 2 winners a loss of -0.26 today}

Negotiation (Saxondale Style)

PS:  Our house now has a resident bat which no one can catch.  We’ve given up – it’s too clever for us and it now resides down the back of a chest of drawers in my daughter’s bedroom.  It has been christened Brucey (there's a clever reason for this - think about it!).  There is a plateful of jellybeans to lure it out with (apparently a website says bats like After Eights and mint flavoured jelly beans are the nearest thing we’ve got in the house).   If there is a horse running in the next day or two with a name that incorporates Bruce or Bat then I have orders to bet 50p each way on it (to raise funds for After Eights).
This morning there is no sign of Bruce - we think he has dropped to the bottom of the gap in search of tasty insects (spider?) rather then jellybeans.