Hartforth takes his chance at Haydock tomorrow

There are 40 horses entered in total for the 6 races at Haydock tomorrow.

Unfortunately for The Brave Lads partnership, 37.5% of these will line up for the opening 3 mile handicap hurdle. Yes, that's the race in which Hartforth will face 14 rivals.
It's a tricky race to assess as many of the field mix hurdles and chasing showing varying degrees of recent form over each discipline, and several others (including our fellow) showed progressive form last year only to run as if the race was needed last time. We'll discount the summer hurdlers, which leaves....
Jonjo's Milan Bound has a touch of class, and is nicely weighted, and at the other end of experience Skelton's unexposed novice Storm of Swords will surely win a race off his current mark soon.

Anyway, Hartforth will be more at home on the soft ground this time, so good luck to all connections!

Hartforth

And finally.....

This one is courtesy of 6Music's Sean Keaveny.

Apparently former World Heavyweight Boxing champion Mike Tyson has ambitions to further his career by setting his sights on becoming a Shakespearian actor. Mike has completed work in some minor roles for noted directors such as Werner Herzog, and wants to take the leading role in the bard's Othello.

Well, good luck to him, but wouldn't he be better suited to a role as Julius Caesar. I mean, you can envisage the famous speech right now : 'Friends, Romans, Evander Holyfield, lend me your ear.......'.