OFF THE LEASH

THE yoof who in the main frequent social media probably won’t recall the headline ‘It’s The Sun Wot Won It’, where the redtop claimed credit for the Tory election victory in 1992. But some social-ites seem to think that Arc/Entain boosted prizemoney this week by some £2.5m next year to deflect from Paul Carpenter’s explosive resignation from the GBGB. If that is the case then let’s have more notices handed in if it will mean millions of extra revenue being rustled up within hours.

STILL on the Carpenter resignation, there was a Boris Johnson-like attempt at deflection by GBGB chairman Jeremy Cooper, who zeroed in on Carpo’s piece in his resignation letter about the abuse he received via social media affecting him while conveniently failing to address the thrust of his argument - that the board was dominated by certain promoters. The man who walked said on Wednesday: “Social media played less than one per cent in my decision to resign”. SWANLEY ALEXIS switches to a middle seeding for tomorrow’s RPGTV English Derby second round at Towcester but surely there is a question to be asked about how he was ever allowed to be a railer and given the chance to run off as he did in round one. Jamie McGee’s dog has never had trap one in Ireland and was given a middle comment when trialled from three at Towcester.

CATEGORY ONE titles are like London buses as far as Pete Harnden is concerned. No sooner had he notched his first with Salacres Pippy in the 1st Containers Marathon at Towcester than he was up at the podium again collecting the Ladbrokes Cesarewitch trophy after his brilliant bitch made all in the Crayford feature. It’s Shelbourne’s Winter

Festival tonight for the snappily-named RPGTV DD0 750, which might just as well be a Cat One. Best of British to him, particularly in successfully negotiating the Covid protocols. TOWCESTER has much going for it, not least its beautiful location. But that location is very much a double-edged sword, as in the winter it’s horribly exposed. The first cold snap of the winter saw the track duly freeze a couple of times although it was by far the only one. Promoter Kevin Boothby seems to like buying up tracks so Muttley has a helpful suggestion for him why not move lock, stock and barrel in the winter months to Caliente in Mexico (pictured below)? If nothing else we’d like to know what its advertised “nocturnal functions seven days a week” entails.