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Captain's Blog - 29th December 2011

I will be heading into the office later today to prepare for some twilight action from Kempton Park. James Willoughby will join me and we look forward to hearing from you. The email address is studio@racinguk.com and not only are we interested in your thoughts on the Kempton card, we would also like to know what was your favourite race of 2011. Please let us know and we will dig deep into the archives to find the race and play it for you. I am not sure what my favourite race was, often such thoughts are motivated by the big wins that one has had, but there are still a few purists left whose nominations will be based purely on their love for this great game of ours. Whatever your motivations please get in touch.

I did not manage to watch too much racing yesterday, but I did see Hayley Turner give Bronze Angel the perfect Lingfield ride yesterday. She was drawn in stall 2 rode the rail until turning into the straight. Once the field levelled out for home she switched wide and got up to win with a perfectly timed challenge. Hayley has clearly lost nothing after her enforced break and there is no better jockey riding on the All Weather at the moment. I know there must have been a lot of other good rides yesterday, but to my mind this one would have taken a lot of beating.

Once I have finished here I am on cooking detail. I need to make my Daughter's tea. I received a Dad's cook book for Christmas and now I need to put together a chicken dish of some type for her. I realise that this sounds pretty simple, but given my recent effort,s I need to redeem my cooking reputation somewhat and that task will start very shortly.

Our each way selection yesterday was third at 5/1. Lets hope for something better today.

All the best.

Today's Selection

4.50 Kempton - Hurry Up George