Skipper through to another St Leger final

Had a bit of the dreaded lurgy this week so wasnt up to posting on Monday but thinking about it probably best to go weekly anyhow as you can get too much of one mans ramblings as an ongoing diet I tend to feel, hence will probably just do the Fridays from now on, next step to go monthly perhaps lol.
Starting off from where I can remember I got Oakleaf Tom into the semi finals of the Galway Golden Jacket greyhound event but lost the other two selections who both finished in fourth place with only the top three qualifying. Have since added Imaal Master to the portfolio at 16s and topped up a bit on Tom at the same price.
Midway Skipper also got through to the final of the Coventry St Leger with a last gasp success in her semi final last week but once again the time of Swift Ninja in another heat was slightly better so that one may take some stopping in this weekends conclusion, a fact not lost on the layers with Skipper still available at the original price prior to the first heat. Both got flying starts last week although Skipper ultimately came from off the pace but alot will depend on how they get away, at least my selection has her preferred rails draw.
In the Cotswold 480 at Monmore, my initial selection Dotlands Hit Man finished a disappointing fourth in his heat, fading tamely on perhaps the worst part of the track but Irish Derby finalist Ballymac Ruso can still be backed at 11/4 for the final and was quite impressed with the way this one came from off the pace to land one of the semi final heats so had to have a dabble there.
My punting assault on horse racing's Japan Cup was foiled by the 50/1 shot Screen Hero - I had narrowed the field down to five and they filled the next five spots in unison, though the ones I backed were actually fourth, fifth and sixth so close but no cigar as they say.
The UK Championship snooker betting has been rather up and down, once again starting off with most of the results going against me before pulling it back and then slipping slightly behind again, certainly some of the results have seemed a bit hard to fathom and on this occasion with the longer matches the best bets have seemed to be the pretty obvious ones at shortish odds which isnt always the case on the baize.
Might have a wander up for tonights session though still have a few sniffles so will see how I feel in an hour or so's time, looking for Mike Dunn (4/7) to come back against Joe Delaney from 5-3 down and also Marcus Campbell (5/6) to overcome Rob Milkins.
This afternoon have backed Jimmy White at 6/5 against Rory McLeod (currently 3-2 down) and Ricky Walden to beat Mark Davis at 2/5 (currently 3-2 up).
Managed to turn out for our own snooker team this week and it was worthwhile in the end with a 4-1 win against a team pretty much in the same boat as us in the league (around about the halfway mark) so that should nudge us up a bit, think my score was about 41-32 so you can tell from that it wasnt a classic and need to be scoring a bit heavier than I have been doing in the opening stages of this season.
Anyway might top up with another LemSip before I decide whether to venture out, all the best until next week
Rick