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Very positive start, Chester is a tricky track for a debut but he travelled fine and ran on really well in the closing stages.

Or if they did skip training, they're lying low in a box somewhere

Can report that no-one skipped training to see it make its debut. He's a very nice type, well grown, relaxed in the prelims. Plenty of similar sorts in the race tho, could prove to be quite a decent heat.

Wow, not sure how I managed to miss that, thanks!

Apologies for taking this slightly off-topic as it's not a Tony Bloom horse, but 2-y-o The Flying Seagull makes its racecourse debut in the 2.05 at Chester tomorrow. Owned by "Two Plus Three Two Plus Four", runs in blue and white stripes with blue and white chevrons on the sleeves. Anyone on...

Ile Atlantique is out again in the two-and-a-half mile Grade One novice hurdle at Aintree tomorrow. Around 7-1 in the early prices.

Another Flat horse making its debut tomorrow: American Riddle (US Navy Flag ex Puzzled) goes in the 6.00 at Kempton. Three years old, running over a mile, might want further in time as Puzzled was half-sister to a Derby runner-up. Cost 70k as a yearling, probably one to watch rather than back I...

Alpine Oasis is back in action in the 5.10 at Chelmsford tomorrow. £18k to the winner so very competitive for a Class 5, tricky draw in stall 14 too, but opening mark of 74 looks pretty fair (Timeform speed figure for last month's win was 71).

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Walk past it pretty much daily. Before the refurb it was always empty. Then went past one day a few months back and they were selling all the tables and chairs on the street outside, and boarding up the windows. It re-opened a couple of weeks later looking pretty much like it had before...

One of the advantages of decimal odds is that you can divide the decimal price into 100 to get the percentage chance it implies, and vice versa. So 3.5 implies 100/3.5 = 28.6pc chance, while a 25pc chance is 100/25 = 4 (or 3-1 in old money). Opta's model had Chelsea as 44pc chances for the...

Current best odds for a top 4 finish are 9-4, so top 5 would be around 7-4. Current best odds to win the Europa League: 14-1.

It's a three-horse race - the draw was a bigger runner than an AEK win (about 6-1 I think). They basically work out the draw/away odds as a function of the shortest price, so if a home team is 1-5, like we were last night, the draw/away odds will always be around 6-1 and 14-1.

Broady played exceptionally well, but Ruud said afterwards that he thought LB was a better player than him on grass, so he'd accepted at least the fair possibility of defeat before he set foot on the court. He'll never get much further than R2 with that attitude, no matter what he's seeded...

The Betfair market definitely fancies our chances: