Saturday racing summary

A most welcome set of results this afternoon, and it certainly didn't take long to redress the poor showing from Friday. Yesterday I suffered a losing win bet, and also took a sizeable hit when laying Record Breaker for a loss of more than 7 points at Goodwood.

Today we bounced back with two winning bets from three, courtesy of Prime Defender and Just Lille. Prime Defender was shortening all day, so you will have benefitted most by taking the 7/2 available on the exchanges this morning. By contrast, the price on offer for Just Lille went out as far as 4/1

Two successful lay bets today as well: my bigger bet was to be against Sandrey in the class 2 heritage handicap at Newmarket. His best form coming into today's race was a win at class 4 and today he was due to carry an extra 9lbs for that win. Yet here he was, the favourite for a heritage handicap, and I lost track the number of times the Channel 4 presenters said the 7/4 was a "crazy price". The punters were still piling on when the stalls opened, and he went on to trail in last.

And so, almost 11 points profit on the day.