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Down Royal, Doncaster and Wincanton

The first international rugby of the season today and tomorrow, and the jumps get more and more interesting, so for today my selections are:
Down Royal 235: Beef or Salmon
Doncaster 255: Turbo
Wincanton 310: Royal Auclair
Wincanton 340: Rigmarole

Wetherby Charlie Hall Chase and Breeders Cup Day

Chepstow 225 Very Optimistic
Wetherby 250 Grey Abbey
Newmarket 310 Quito
Wetherby 325 Crystal d'Ainay
Newmarket 345 Kamanda Laugh

And this evening at Lone Star Park:
620: Storm Flag Flying
735: Six Perfections
955: Powerscourt
1035: Pleasantly Perfect

Galway and Leopardstown

To add excitment to a half term day spent on child care duty, here's some selections:
230 Leopardstown; Footstepsinthesand
315 Galway: Sherberry
415 Galway: Fatherofthebride
500 Leopardstown: Bywayofthestars

Cesarewitch Day

Off to Cambridge for the weekend, alas, not Newmarket, but here are today's:
205 Newmarket Polar Way (not to be confused with the two other horses named Polar in this race)
245 Contact Dancer
325 Mister Monet
400 Home Affairs

Selections: York and Punchestown

205 York Yajbili
300 Punchestown Barrack Buster
330 Punchestown Blazing Liss
340 York Pic Up Sticks
430 Punchestown Ashstorm

Selections for the Cambridgeshire and others

200 Newmarket Caitlin
315 Newmarket Chic
355 Newmarket Able Baker Charlie
400 The Curragh Pictavia
430 The Curragh Tolpuddle

Selections for Ascot

Today's selections
Ascot 155 Hackney Empire Royal Lodge Stakes: Perfectperformance
Ascot 230 Meon Valley Stud Fillies Mile: Maid's Causeway
Ascot 300 GNER Diadem Stakes: Pivotal Point
Ascot 335 Totejackpot on Saturday Heritage Handicap: Funfair
Ascot 410 Queen Elizabeth II Stakes: Soviet Song

Posting these late, but never mind

Irish St Leger and Ayr Gold Cup

Today's selections
250 Newbury Baltic Dip
310 Ayr Mutawaqed
325 Newbury Salsa Brava
340 The Curragh First Charter
400 Newbury Blue Spinnaker

St Leger and other selections

315 Doncaster Quiff
330 Leopardstown Doyen
345 Doncaster Beckermet
410 Leopardstown Soviet Song

Racing tips

Andy Richardson has been kind enough to comment on the success of Byron at 16/1 on the first day of Goodwood, and mention it on the DLNet blog; afraid the Racing Post tipster competition project collapsed under pressure of deadlines (not least beause they insist on you ringing your nap through to a premium rate phone line: why no e-submission?).
So the rest of Goodwood went by without any more selections.