Don't give up just yet

Unsurprisingly horse racing news continues to be dominated by the Gordon Elliott business. It has reached the stage where the pile on him is so great I am feeling a bit sorry for him. I have worked in situations where people have died and there was often a bit of "gallows humour" to get you through it. If everything done had been filmed/photographed and then circulated on social media there would have been justified, but out of context, outrage.

As far as the punting is concerned it has not been a good start to March. The winter proved profitable but now spring is almost here, and the going has changed, my bets have been way off target. 

I fancied 2 in the 3.40 at Leicester on Tuesday: 

• Roseisaroseisarose is a mare I have followed for months and I felt sure she would be in the first 3 after wind surgery. Like all good each way things she came 4th, and
• Festival Dawn, for whom there was good money, travelled well for much of the way until the important bit after which she disappeared out the back of the proverbial telly.

My other bet was Handy Hollow (2.30 Catterick) at 18/1. I had put aside my inability to get Donald McCain horses right, as I was convinced this horse was well handicapped even with the rider's 10lb claim. The rider could have had a 30lb allowance and would have still lost as Handy Hollow put in a lifeless performance and was pulled up.

I remain an optimist though and have not given up on Roseisaroseisarose just yet. The next run will be an ideal test for the 'second go after wind surgery' theory.