Sunday afternoon

Just as imagined over the last couple of months, the eventing all came together, and Phillips won. After watching the final showjumping round which won it, I've just been sitting back watching the bookies and exchange reactions. I watched it on interactive, it's just started on terrestrial, and it's a Sunday afternoon before bank holiday, and the sports personality market has been slow to react this year, so the market has been a bit slow, so I've hoovered up a few prices from slow bookies between 16 and 28, and watched the prices all come in. Zara went favourite at 16.38 on betfair, and with the first of the bookies, betdirect at 16.41. I imagine once more people find out about the result, and the snowball effect takes hold she'll go odds on. With such a charismatic and popular personality, the spotlight is unlikely to be lost between now and December, and there's the medal ceremony to refocus memories and emotions whereas Murray only has performances. I can't imagine a Ryder Cup win over an embarrassingly weak US side would give enough opportunity for an individual to come to prominence, or Murray winning the US open, and only the First ashes Test, perhaps a Monty 10for or a Freddie allround match-winning performance stand in the way of a very nice win.