North south divide (weather-wise)!

As subscribed members have seen in recent times, I’m making a heck of a lot more of the OMMS section, not only in traducing colour-coding, but also highlighting those strong, or very strong, with the use of a flame icon. Yesterday, for the first time in a little while, we had two very strong in that section, CORRIAMO, 9/1 ＞ 6/1 in the early Newsletter, and mashed into 11/4 by 10-00am. The other was the Fahey trained juvenile debutante MEARALL, 6/1 ＞ 11/4 in the first Newsletter, but just 6/5 by 10-00am. That race also gave us a chance to lay the odds on favourite, which eventually drifted out to 15/8 from the 8/11 I had advised earlier. Both horses won their respective races easily enough and I’m keen to see what Fahey does with his because for him to get one ready to win on debut is rare. On Saturday we saw just how important it is to be working with the 3-y-o’s in all aged handicaps. In the Redcar 3-12pm....two 3-y-o’s remained following the withdrawal of GRESSINGTON....and it was won by a 3-y-o that was, by off time, a BRF. The Haydock 2-25pm....my top Rated 3-y-o was withdrawn early, which meant we had two left, that also now sat top two Rated....they came home 1-2. The last race on the Haydock card was the 6-25pm, which had 2 x 3-y-o's entered. Won by BURDETT....a 3-y-o....@ 9/2. The two races at Ayr....both Class 5 and class of race may be something I need to consider when working the 3-y-o's....my figures for the 7-12pm were good, with the 16/1 winner sitting second top, and a winner on the going as was described when Rating the race. The two 3-y-o's came home 2nd & 3rd. The 8-15pm, a Class 5....we had five of the 10 runners aged three. They came home 1-2-4....with my top Rated horse in third so, it might be at that class of race we do need to retain the current STAKE MANAGEMENT rule. As I said in my early Newsletter yesterday, I have homework to do come October. I’ll be looking back at every rated race since the conclusion of Royal Ascot and come May next 2025, the start of the core flat season next year, I’ll have something in place that helps us make even more profit from these races. Something else I need to do is have a good read of the 2025 fixture list. Failure to prepare, is, as they say, preparing to fail. Today’s racing isn’t at all bad and I have a Rated race at Windsor that is as good race as I have worked on all season. No fewer than 13 of the 16 runners achieve a + Rating….that’s extraordinary. Subscribed members are already in receipt of my final thoughts on that one. I’m not sure what to do with Ayr, given the weather forecasts for Scotland. The BHA website now has a revised message regarding the wet stuff, and they now expect a couple of hours of heavy showers. Given the fact it is already good to soft in places up there, it might well be soft all over by the time racing starts….I’d sit on the thought of betting there until you’ve seen how it is riding after the first. It seems trainers are pre-empting a going change and two of the front five on the tissue for the second race on that card are out, and Lucinda Russell already has a brace of non-runners. They have exactly the opposite scenario down south, with temperatures set to top 30c at Windsor by 3-00pm and for them to be racing in 26c of heat. I’m expecting more non-runners everywhere so it’s pointless my trying to produce a fun punters play for today. With the racing in such a state of flux I thought I’d finish by telling you about Tony Davidson’s Season Ticket. The Premier League commences this coming weekend and Tony is going to be looking at six games every weekend for you. He will be helped by Sean Robinson, who is currently on holiday Texas so this weekend I’m on football IT duties. To access Tony’s work will require a subscription of just £10 per month and you can subscribe via the PostRacing.co.uk website. Just head over there, click on SUBSCRIBE in the main menu and you’ll find TONY D’S SEASON TICKET at the bottom of the membership options. Hopefully tomorrow I can pop up a little racing play in the Podcast but for now, I’ll call it a day here and wish you a good one!