Pretty Star in sparkling form

Two winners from three back-to-win bets today. My Turn Now was the first to score, in the novice hurdle at Taunton. 5/4 was generally available about this horse on Betfair before he was sent off at 10/11. Pretty Star proved that a drifting price is not always something to be concerned about. Indeed, I recommended backing the horse only if you could get a minimum price of 10/3 and it only reached this level of value in the last few minutes before the start.

My one lay bet today was in the Grade 1 novice hurdle at Newbury. Sir Jimmy Shand was being tipped up by almost everybody, despite the fact that his winning form to date is at just Class 4. He was backed right in to 2/1F but thankfully found one horse too good for him today.

All told, I added more than 4.5 points profit to the account.