Ninja Blue ran 'like a drain'...
...finishing 5th in the Essex Vase.

The bookies had this race made up to a tee with the favourite Eye Onthe Veto winning in splendid style, with Westmead Aoifa in 2nd place and Bubbly Casino in the 3rd spot.

The writing was on the wall for Ninja Blue, who was suffering the effect of recent hard races, drifting from 10/1 to 12/1. So I got this one so wrong!

Ah! well there's always more races to have a go at next year!

My total losses on this race was: 15 1/2 points, as I did an 'allways trio' with Eye Onthe Veto, Westmead Aoifa and Ninja Blue for 3 points; which of course Ninja Blue spoiled.

My graph in the last blog pointed to the first two home. (I should have done a straight forecast - easy in hindsight isn't it? That's what I get for being too greedy!)

(Doesn't it get you when dog owner's run the words together with names such as: Eye Onthe Veto? - What the hell for ? And what the heck does it mean?)

I'll be doing an update of my 'dog-racing year' in my next blog ...

In the meantime...

Come racing!!