A mixed day in the betting trenches

It’s Thursday. The worst and weakest card of the festival. Eww. But that’s not all.

It’s also St Patrick’s Day, which is likely to make for horrific scenes on Channel 4 throughout the afternoon. Award yourself a drink for every gobdaw in a leprechaun outfit you see. Double eww. If you’re not the first faller of the day I’ll be astonished.

As with yesterday I don’t blow all my powder before lunchtime. The quality and variety of the fields do not warrant it. I essay a tenner double on the two Mullins hotpots, Vautour and Limini, and an each-way Lucky 15 consisting of Doctor Harper, Our Kaempfer, Josses Hill and Aux Ptits Soins. That will do for the moment.