Overturn-ed...

....that was what happened to the favourite in the Fighting Fifth.

A grand day out at Newcastle, courtesy of Stan James (other bookies are available). This is clearly not up to the standard of the professional photographers caught here on camera, but hopefully gives some idea of the winners' enclosure after a big race - in this case, the Fighting Fifth hurdle, won by Overturn, pictured here as his jockey Jason Maguire unsaddles. Even better news was that we'd backed him (Overturn, not Maguire).

In other news, we also backed the winner of the last, "Hey Big Spender". The queues at the bookies after racing, and the somewhat less than sober renditions of that old Shirley Bassey number ringing out across the racecourse, suggested we weren't the only ones.