A pair of places at Clonmel from the two tip races yesterday. Imperial Tune advised at 10/1 was a runner up returning a 15/2 SP, whilst Da Big Fella advised at 40/1 ran a fine third returning an SP of 18/1.

 

There are 38 runners in 6 races at Newbury and 40 runners in 6 races at Ffos Llas today over the Jumps. Very few punting options. Whilst the two weeks before Cheltenham is usually devoid of much quality, we;d normally get plenty of big field lower Handicap grade options. The sudden Heavy ground scenario has probably reduced entries this week, but with a quiet dry spell now for at least the next 5 days we'll hope for something to "get our teeth into" as invariably this winter we've been at our best and pretty consistent when we actually have some decent action to attack. At some point we're going to sit down with the Tipsters and work on a "Plan B" for these increasingly prevalent spells when the lack of runners occurs, but we'll leave that until after Cheltenham and Aintree in terms of Jumping action.