Kooyonga - won the Coronation Stakes in 1991 and the Eclipse the following year.

Also disqualified after easily winning the Prince of Wales Stakes at 10/1 in 1992 (carrying my money).

Ouch.

Latest odds

McManus, JP - former bookmaker, now a financier & currency dealer with a net worth of circa £1bn.

Owner of about 400 horses in training at various yards, many of them very moderate.

Man o' War. Owned by August Belmont Junior, the final leg of the US Triple Crown was named after his father. The horse, so named by the owner's wife as he joined the US army to serve in France in WWI at the age of 65, won 20 of his 21 starts and $250,000 in prize money in 1919 and 1920.

Blimey.


Never in my betting experiences have I profited from a horse getting a race in the stewards room, but I've been on the wrong side of several disqualifications over the years.

O'Brien Charles, trainer and son of the late great Vincent.

Yeah, funny that eh.............

Point-to-point

Quickened.

Rockfel - filly foaled 1935 and trained by the quixotically named Captain Oswald Marmeduke Dalby Bell.

The horse ran unplaced in a seller at two before winning the 1,000 Guineas, Oaks and Champion Stakes the following season.

In commemoration, the Rockfel Stakes is a Group 2 event at Newmarket which has its 30th renewal tomorrow.

Spotform

Timeform founded in 1948 by professional gambler and racehorse owner Phil Bull in Yorkshire, now owned by Betfair.

Uphill finish - Towcester lays claim to the steepest but those at Carlisle and Sedgefield are also particularly punishing.

Vainglory just won the 3.05 at York

Williams Ian, Midlands based jump and flat trainer.

Xclaim

Astrology, well named colt by Galileo out of Ask For the Moon who runs in the Autumn stakes today.

I never liked Y and Z anyway.

Brew, Charlotte - in 1977 the first woman to ride in the Grand National.

Corbiere - first female trained National winner in '83 for the redoubtable Ms. Pitman

Dabirsim. Unbeaten in 5 starts and after Saturday's rather inconclusive Middle Park & Dewhurst results possibly the top 2yo in Europe.

Entering the final furlong

Feeling the ground.

Garrison Savannah - racetrack in Barbados.

Huntingdon Handicap Hurdle

Inside rail.

Jones, Davy - apprenticed to trainer Basil Foster for 12 months before finding fame as The Artful Dodger in Oliver!, and later in The Monkees.