This week's ATR Sectional Spotlight looks back on Ascot's British Champions Day and on one performance in particular.

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What is the ratio of horses in British novice hurdles V Irish novice hurdles that approach the first clearly thinking 'What the FUCK is that?!' About 200:1 imo.

My once a month column for NTT20 is out now, where I couldn't decide which of the five good bets I'd found to talk about so I've given them all to you.

Could be left with just Newmarket tomorrow looking at the forecast.

First Fieldfares over the garden just now which is great news as local folklore has it that if they appear before Halloween the villagers will lay much bridle filth in the winter ahead.

People don't seem to understand that if there are lots of meetings there aren't going to be big gaps between races and if we have to have 5 minutes before and after Ascot in order to give us 15 minutes to truly enjoy low-grade handicaps at Limerick and Newton Abbot then so be it.

The good news for both IR players and my sanity is that it appears Betfair LV will be using the RTV stream.

Can't have a meet and Greet it seems.

One last time… for now, anyway: 😉

TOP TIPS: Get double the pleasure from backing a winner on Champions Day by roaring your horse home in the closing stages on Racing TV then when it hits the line switching over to Sky Sports Racing and doing it again.

The adverse weather has caused the loss of fixtures at Fakenham, Uttoxeter, Market Rasen and Stratford so we're putting on an extra AW card at Wolverhampton. Righto.

One of THE great QE2 fields in behind there James 👀

'Catterick report no problems' says Angus just now.
Report no problems/called an inspection hours ago
Tomayto/Tomarto

He's talking on the air
On channel 424 on Sky
Cuz Martin wouldn't swap no matter how he tried.

A bit like the current chat about APOB never having trained a true great this made me realise Frankie has never ridden one in my book (granted, not a bestseller) or indeed a horse I've really loved. Golden Horn closest on both counts.

The number of young women just looking for fun that are engaging with grumpy, sarcastic tweets about UK racing appears to be through the roof at the moment. Great to see.

If you liked the first four 5F contests at Navan you're going to absolutely love this fifth one imo.

I know you can't take these things literally but that pacemaker could be absolutely thrown in off his current mark - I'd go for The Lincoln.

Her fourth sackcloth of the season.

Terrific stuff.