Fillies

Hola! It's been another fairly lengthy gap since you were lucky enough to get a blog post out of me, but never fear, I'm still around! ;)
So, i've enjoyed a nice little holiday in Spain where I wanted to see the Spanish Andalucian horses, and flamenco dancers, but saw neither of. However we did manage to find authentic Spanish Tapas after 4 days of looking, (some english run restaurants tried to fob us off by putting onion rings and chicken nuggets on their 'tapas' menu). I won't even begin to bore you with the details of encountering a man on the very crest of the Rock of Gibralter who'd ridden his moped all the way to the top to relieve some tension... if you catch my drift!

Anyway, enough of that. It's Oaks day!!
Firstly, I'm looking forward to the Coronation Cup a lot more than I am the Oaks. It's a small, yet perfectly formed field. I'd love to see a favourite of mine, Dandino do the biz, but he'll probably be a bit outclassed here. St Nicholas Abbey surely isn't a danger to the fantastic Midday is he? It is however, a cautious statement to make, allbeit with a question mark at the end. The fact is, no one really knows how good he is.

The Oaks looks wide wide open to me. I've taken advantage of the 'Blue Bunting wins, money back' promo that William Hill have going on. I've had a WIN bet (yes... i've had a WIN bet) on Zain Al Boldan (9/1). My each way bet goes on the other Mick Channon runner Fork Handles, for three reasons. 1) It's been backed from 100s into 50/1 over night. 2) Some good reports from people (including @Erm_Racing who's heard she's been working better than her stable mate at home). 3) I asked the dog who was going to win the Oaks and she touched my hand with her paw when I said number 6. So that's a sealed deal then.

Those are my only bets so far, but updates on any last minute bets will no doubt be tweeted (@eachwayemily).

Zain Al Boldan

Last but not least, you may know I've recently taken part in the Filly Factor (a comp run by Racing For Change via www.lovetheraces.com to find the first female commentator). I unfortuantly didn't make it passed the 2nd round and my dreams briefly crashed around me, but I'm now more determinded than ever to get into commentating, and i'm going to give it a go the proper way! The feedback from my audition was generally that my voice wasn't strong enough, so I'm going to shout more from now on.
Jokes aside, I'm hoping that seeing as the competition is being run by Racing For Change, we see some new faces in the next round and not a recycle of the same old same old. I know the competition has angered a few people, infact Sean Boyce wrote a whole blog post about how hideous he found it, so it'd be nice to see a good outcome from the competition and not just a brief flash in the pan of female commentating. It's always nice to prove Sean Boyce wrong isn't it?