Tuesday May 9th 2023

That trainer is flying now !

Big market drift, though I can't see why. He has plenty going for him. He did have a hard enough race 12 days ago at Perth though.

Scrap that. Same race but going for Lion's Pride.

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Definitely worth appealing. Brad didn't get much assistance from Ikarak who is not the best jumper, and then had this encroachment from the eventual winner to contend with. I suppose the stewards were of the view that Ikarak had enough time to recover from the crossing and at least get closer than he did - he was not able to reel in the winner. Anything less than a two-length margin might have been conclusive. I'm not sure whether Brad has been in a stewards enquiry before but it must be intimidating for a youngster.

VAR. If I was a Brighton fan that word would be not be forgotten easily. Like you say,only as good as the bloke drawing the line . I had no idea it was going to become the defacto ref when it was mooted. These minute offside decisions are ruining the game I think.

Then again the blatant cheating and diving in the PL annoys me. I never heard a player scream in any game I played in when tackled. That lad Jesus at Arsenal drops for fun and screams when touched ,why managers don't clamp down on it like Dyche does beats me .

I prefer watching Championship games nowadays.

Best of all though is the English ladies rugby union games. The French game was a cracker.

The problem is the lack of the much promised centralised stewards. Look how long it took the Worcester stewards to decide on Cobdens race.