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Plus 8 and dry when driving in.

It seemed busy at Kempton last night.. Well the owners and trainers room certainly was.

Interesting watching my two horses as both seemed to be with a huge chance three from home. Bobhopeornohope stopped like he was shot.. Is it his wind? Poor chap suffers badly from wind problems, but was it a case that he has been running on much softer ground and he was waiting for it to cut out? Back in trip possible now as he travelled so well.

Le Cameleon ran well and pleased his owners who were slightly dreading last night as they are the same owners who owned and bred the ill-fated Moonlighter.. It was their first runner since..Le Cameleon is Moonlighter's half brother..

Such an easy drive home, although going there you wonder why Oxford were stupid enough not to put in a dual carriageway when they built their new road.. It is usually grid locked..and will get worse as time goes on..Shocking.

Tuesday morning brings in our usual vet visit and this week’s movers and shakers in the BHA handicap charts were Grand Escaparde down 4 to 70 and Hurlerontheditch down 4 to 112...

We have one runner today at Southwell. I Got Stung runs there and for my thoughts please click here.

Ian Reid again...

Mick, from Dublin, appeared on "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" and towards the end of the program had already won £500,000.

You've done very well so far," said, Chris Tarrant, the show's presenter, "but for £1million you've only got one lifeline left - phone a friend.

Everything is riding on this question......will you go for it?"

"Sure," said Mick. "I'll have a go!"

"Which of the following birds does NOT build its own nest?"

A: Sparrow
B: Thrush
C: Magpie
D: Cuckoo

I haven't got a clue," said Mick, "so I'll use me last lifeline and phone me friend Paddy back home in Dublin". Mick called up his mate, and told him the circumstances and repeated the question to him.

"Fookin hell, Mick!" cried Paddy. "Dat's simple......it's a cuckoo."

"Are you sure?"

"I'm fookin sure."

Mick hung up the phone and told Chris, "I'll go wit Cuckoo as me answer."

"Is that your final answer?" asked Chris

"Dat it is, Sir."

There was a long, long pause, then the presenter screamed, Cuckoo is the correct answer! Mick, you've won £1 million!"

The next night, Mick invited Paddy to their local pub to buy him a drink. "Tell me, Paddy? How in God's name did you know it was da Cuckoo that doesn't build it's own nest? I mean you know pineapple-all about birds."

"For fooks sake!" laughed Paddy. "Everybody knows a cuckoo lives in a Fookin clock.

To finish.. Happy birthday to Martyn Steer-Fowler..