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Plus 11 and trying to rain when driving in. Summer!

Stratford do a good job and we had so many of the KBRS team to watch Parc d’Amour run that we opted for the Syndicate room rather than the official owners and trainers room..

We support the idea of a syndicate room and although there was no free food it was very comfortable and frankly perfect for what we wanted.. Although I have to add that when John Benson and Christopher Hill went to buy a burger and chips before heading home, they commented about that the price of their take away supper made Cheltenham Festival burgers really rather good value!

Parc d’Amour was a bit sketchy over his early fences but he came to challenge at the second last but then broke a blood vessel..Holiday times for him now.. He is fine this morning.

The Cheltenham Cricket Festival yesterday was cold and frankly you needed a jumper or two to keep warm.. Perhaps that was why there were less than expected for my chat!! I did my bit then Archie and his mate Tom took over and talked to school children all day about the benifits of sport and cricket.

It was good to see Chris Coley Edward Gillespie and John Morrison there watching Gloucestershire bat well...

Talking cricket Jimmy Anderson played his first, first class game for his county Lancashire for over a year yesterday and took 7 wickets for 35 runs against Notts.. There is still life in the old boy ahead of the first Test at Lords next week.. Jimmy’s last.

Wimbledon.. Brits through  Jack Draper...Katie Boulter..Cameron Norrie

Ed Bailey bought a 2 year old for us yesterday at Arqana.. Lot 298.. No Risk At All out of Salmon Rose..

On a step, a priest sat next to a drunk struggling to read a newspaper. Suddenly, with a slurred voice, the drunk asked the priest:

"Do you know what arthritis is?"

The parish priest soon thought of taking the opportunity to lecture the drunk and replied: "It's a disease caused by sinful and unruly life: excess, consumption of alcohol, drugs, marijuana, crack, and certainly lost women, prostitutes, promiscuity, sex, binges, and other things I dare not say."

The drunk widened his eyes, shut up, and continued reading the newspaper.

A little later the priest, thinking that he had been too hard on the drunk, tried to soften:

"How long have you had arthritis?"

"I don't have arthritis! It says here in the paper that the Pope has it."