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Thursday 4^th August Double Wednesday night winner. Always nice. Made £60 selling goals in Benfica v Trabzonspor at 2.6 and £170 doing the same in Dinamo Zagreb v Helsinki. I

Thursday 14^th July Always nice to wake up with more money than you went to bed with. Particularly as I’m pretty sure Mrs. Esdaile somehow manages to spend it

Thursday 23^rd June I struggle to get into Wimbledon in the first week – just too many one-sided matches and barely an upset on the horizon. Take Federer’s match

Thursday 16^th June I really fancied one on Ladies Day – a horse that is! With rain steadily falling and making the ground softer and softer by the minute,

Tomorrow's Golden Jubilee Stakes (3.45pm) is the final Group One contest of Royal Ascot week and the rain is causing havoc to a number of the key contenders.

With plenty more rain expected to fall at Ascot, it’s extremely hard to confidently predict what the official going description will be come race time this afternoon.

Richard Hannon made a tremendous start to this year’s Royal Ascot with Canford Cliffs’ defeat of Goldikova in the Queen Anne.

The rain clouds predicted to gather over Ascot this afternoon are bad news for the thousands flocking to Berkshire for Ladies Day, but good news for me, as

This afternoon’s Coventry Stakes (4.25pm) has gone to Richard Hannon for the past two years and I expect it to stay in the Lambourn Valley as Barry Hills’