Debonnaire struts her stuff

They say marriage is all about 'give and take' well it's true, I give and my wife takes... (Jimmy Tarbuck 1975). This afternoon saw some give and take too. I gave out six potential bets and four of them qualified as bets as my value prices were reached. From these four, I found two winners which returned just under 8 points profit on the betting exchanges. I had word from the Mark Johnston yard that Debonnaire had improved considerably from her two previous runs, and was likely to be there or thereabouts. She just got home at 4/1 with plenty of 9/2 available on Betfair.

Then I gave most of it back when one of my lay bets Capricorn Run won at Lingfield. Hats off to Seb Sanders who timed his run to perfection to get up on the line, just when I thought I would collect 3 points. Shows why he is one of the best jockeys around at the moment. I did score a point with my other lay bet.

So in the end a fraction under 2 points profit to take home, and if I did that every day of the week I guess I wouldn't complain.