GALLERY: Crowds Enjoy First Day of May Festival at Chester Racecourse

GALLERY: Crowds enjoy first day of May Festival at Chester Racecourse

RACEGOERS have been enjoying the opening day of the Boodles May Festival.

Aidan O'Brien at the Chester May Festival

I think I‘ve mentioned on Twitter/X before that you can quite happily swerve Aiden O’Brien’s runners in the UK in April. His record just isn’t great, infact, April is his worst month for winners. He’s had just 6 winners from 84 runners, a strike rate of 7% – way below what he operates at during the rest of the year. If you’d simply laid all his UK runners in April over the seasons, you’d actually be sitting on a tidy +40 LSP. BUT, this all chang…