Horse Racing: Ballydoyle Cash Flow for Holland

The Irish bookmaker Cashmans has stopped betting on who will succeed Jamie Spencer as the stable jockey to Aidan O'Brien after seeing a flood of money for the Englishman Darryll Holland. He started the day as a 3-1 chance, but was cut to as short as 1-3 before the book closed.

"The betting would suggest it was a done deal. We have no confirmation of that, but he was the only one anybody wanted today," said a spokesman. "We just haven't laid anybody else, so we have had to stop betting on it."

Holland, currently a freelance, last week cut short his stint in Hong Kong. Paddy Power also saw what they described as a "huge plunge" on Holland for the Ballydoyle post. They have him at 4-6, with Johnny Murtagh eased to 2-1 and Kieren Fallon 4-1.

Spencer will take the first rides of his life as a freelance at Lingfield this afternoon.