A Curate's Egg On St. George's Day

The big problem with laying horses is that at some point one of them is going to win - which is exactly what happened with Palace Merano (25/1) at Punchestown this afternoon. Good job it was just a trial lay because it would have put a serious dent in my bank: I'd had a run of 25 straight 'losers' at an average SP of 45/1 (if you're interested, the lowest price was 13/2) and I've been wondering all week when the next winner would turn up.

Both Mojeer and Thousand Stars lost, although the latter finished third behind Hurricane Fly and Solwhit.

Football was mixed to say the least. St. Pauli won at a canter (6-1), Kaiserslautern lost 0-1 to Hansa Rostock, Debrecen went behind but scored five goals in ten minutes to beat Kaposvar 5-1 and despite taking the lead twice (and opening the scoring after 75 seconds), Cesena lost 3-2 at home to Empoli.

Due to the potentially outstanding weather in the UK (I'm going to a game tomorrow afternoon and then off to a barbecue in the evening) I deliberately only looked at the games I could follow personally - and there's only one that might be worth a look at: Inter Milan v Atalanta in Serie A, which kicks off at 5:00pm. Inter need a win to recapture the lead from Roma and they've won ten of the last twelve meetings between these two sides in Milan. A couple of stats worth looking at: Atalanta haven't lead at half time on the road this season (Inter have only been behind once at home after 45 minutes) and there's not much chance of an Atalanta clean sheet either.

I'll post some possible lays earlyish tomorrow morning while I'm watching the Super XIV games on Sky, but I'm going to turn in now - so I'll wish you a good weekend.