Racing 5th June, and other stuff, and £500 challenge

Ripon 3:30
My Gacho 4/1
Charles Darwin 5/1
Steel Blue 6/1
Trojan Flight 9/1
Lake Chini 9/1
Desert Commander 10/1
Yorkshire Blue 16/1

Some disappointing types here. The one that I do like at the prices is Charles Darwin. He likes small fields and looks to be coming to hand based on his latest run. He should be able to race prominently here and hopefully plenty of these will fail to get competitive. With only nine runners the place odds look decent, so an each way bet for me.


Golf: Austrian Open
I seem to have stopped putting hopeless golfers up on here, so you can guess I had another losing run. Still, that came to an end with Sterne on Sunday and my golf partner had Dredge as well, and we were back with a vengeance! So I may as well throw down our four against the field - all each way.

Kaymer 25/1 (the up and coming kid has put together 6 good tournaments in a row now and this is suitably week for him to make a further breakthrough)

Vibe-hastrup 66/1 (placed his last twice and must be over-priced, based on few people having heard of him and fewer still able to spell his name!)

My colleague adds Soren Hansen 50/1 (we like to have a Scandinavian on our team and this one's as close to a course specialist as there is)

and Matthew Zions 125/1 (on the basis it would be good to have a good local lad, until I pointed out AUT meant Australian, not Austrian!) I think he takes the intuitive approach to extremes sometimes (though he's still out-pointing me and my pseudo scientific ratings-based approach).



Tennis:
I'm going to back Chakvetadze today to beat Sharapova at 15/8 or better. The latter is hopelessly one dimensional and she gets really found out on clay. That said, she's also rock solid when it comes to fighting (or cheating) her way to a win, a great asset when so many of the women are so flakey. So, I'll be looking to trade out at some point.


£500 Challenge
I topped up on Borderlescott last night within my own three star fund, something the £500 challenge fund did well to avoid. Today I think the challenge can go for Charles Darwin. I think my own three star fund may concentrate primarily on the place odds, but as I know some of you following this are not betfair players I'll stick to each way for on here.

Charles Darwin £7.50 ew at 15/2 (7/1 OK)

Running Total
£657.74
(Federer/Nadal final still running)