I notice that a few of us have stable runners racing at Newcastle today and tomorrow, but I'm afraid they won't be counted towards the competition. I'm sorry about that, but it's just much easier to run the comp if we stick mainly to metro weekend meetings. And these were the rules I set down at the start, so that's what I'm sticking to.

I know that I myself have Collate running around today which has a very good chance, but that's just bad luck.