After The Lord Mayor's

What a performance yesterday from Sea The Stars in The Derby. I can honestly say I never thought we'd again see a horse capable of winning top races over a mile and then a mile and a half, especially not in the space of just a few weeks. The combination of attributes required is immense and in my opinion we cannot overstate just how good Sea The Stars is.

As far as we are concerned, our selection yesterday ran a decent enough race before being hampered and finally finishing second. The interference made no difference whatsoever to the result and we obviously underestimated the winner who had previously beaten our selection at Chester. Whilst we were of the view that the Chester winner had enjoyed the run of the race and would struggle to confirm the form at the revised weights, hindsight has proved that we were wrong. As is often the case we were right and wrong at the same time. The morning favourite was one to take on and we got that beat, ironically a stable-mate of the eventual winner. We felt KINGS DESTINY should have been priced as favourite and eventually the market agreed with us. We still seem to be taking a few steps forward and then unfortunately a few in the opposite direction. Earlier on in the week we backed Habshan and he quite simply wasn't good enough. On the same evening card at Sandown we sided with Sir Isaac and we both remain convinced he will in time prove to be the best horse in that race. Despite falling out of the stalls and meeting trouble in running he finished not that far off the front. We are sure he'd have been right in the mix if he'd have started better and been in a position to take advantage of the draw. Then of course on Tuesday we were with Fastnet Storm but we felt we couldn't put him up on here at 4/1 when we'd backed him at 6's. That's racing and of course the blog will show three losing bets this week. Under different circumstances and with a little more luck in running we could have been showing two wins and a healthy profit. As always we'll take it on the chin and move on as we know things will even themselves out over the course of the year. I'm busy this afternoon but I will post up the summaries later this evening.

As far as todays racing goes, I spent a fair bit of time on the 440pm at Southwell. Two which you may find worthy of a second glance at half decent prices are Byron Bay and Ten Pole Tudor, both trading at around double figure odds.

Good luck if you get involved.