Timeform’s placepot team’s persistent approach throughout April eventually got its just reward last week, with a most profitable seven days rounded off with success at Bath yesterday. Now, having got right back on track we’re trying to carry the momentum on into May, starting with Newcastle today

More Menorah, less Somersby is the Houghton plan for the second half of the Cheltenham Festival. Where will his money go?

Well, it looks as though I might have overshot the 2010 Mastodon Weekend by about, oh, 675 miles or something. While others degen it up in G-ville, I am spending the weekend in West Palm Beach with Vera Valmore, attending with her a dressage competition. Will be, I imagine, a marginally less intense time these next couple of days here in southern Florida, although I have to say I’m very glad to be able to get away with Vera like this

With this column posting a profit for a third consecutive day on Friday we enter the weekend in good heart. Here are three selections from the free form site to whet the appetite ahead of an excellent day of racing on Saturday.

As he waits for the winners of the Australian Open to be known, Jack Houghton turns his attentions to the upcoming Six Nations and invests some more of his balance on politics markets. Related posts: Jack Houghton’s Betting Challenge Week 24: The Aussie Open portfolio is open Jack Houghton runs through a variety of markets at…