There will be very little margin for error for local match race skippers Blythe Walker and Lance Fraser when racing in the $100,000 Argo Group Gold Cup resumes today.Both skippers posted identical 1-2 records in Hamilton Harbour yesterday to leave their hopes of advancing from the group stage hanging in the balance.Walker and Team Renaissance Re got the day off to a good start with victory over Canada’s Magnus Sandberg in their opening Group One flight.However, the local team’s fortunes took a turn for the worse with successive losses to top seed and reigning Alpari World Match Racing Tour champion Ian Williams (England) and Finland’s Staffan Lindberg.Walker currently boasts an overall record of 4-3.“We had a couple of tough races today and interestingly I think we were in the lead in two of them,” Walker said. “We won the first one and were in the lead in the second and a silly mistake calling the breeze cost us that lead and Ian (Williams) sailed a good race and we never got back in the action.“On the last start we made a mistake and went on the inside and didn’t realise the breeze had shifted so far right and got locked out, so that was a hard way to start that last race. We almost recovered on the second beat but got a penalty.“He (Lindberg) was hunting us down on starboard and we tried to go behind him and ended up with a penalty which we’re not sure we agree with. We tried to avoid him but I guess the umpires felt we didn’t do enough to avoid him, even though there was no contact or anything like that. But that’s life.”Walker and team-mates Adam Barboza, Somers Kempe and Phil Worboys will face Marek Stanczyk (Poland) and David Chapman (Australia) in their final group flights.Former Renaissance Re Junior Gold Cup sailor Taylor Canfield (US Virgin Islands) topped Group One with an unblemished 6-0 record at the end of yesterday’s racing.Meanwhile, Fraser and Digicel Match Racing crew Jesse Kirkland, Jason and Jordan Saints will also have everything to sail for when racing resumes this morning after falling off the pace yesterday.The teenage skipper got off to a sluggish start, losing his opening Group Two flight against Sally Barkow (USA), the only female skipper in the field. However, he bounced back in the next flight with an inspiring win against world number two Bjorn Hansen (Sweden) before going down to former Tour champion Adam Minoprio (New Zealand) in his final flight of the day.“Overall, it was a mostly disappointing day but we’re still in it,” Fraser said. “We lost two races we didn’t have to lose and made some stupid mistakes.“We still have some racing to do and I think if we win both of our remaining flights we’ll go through to the quarters. If we win one I think we still have a chance so we just have to go out there and do our best against the Dutch (Jurjen Feitsma) and Brazilian (Henrique Haddad) and hopefully win some more races.“We will just go out there and take them as they come and hopefully get in the quarters.”Fraser’s overall record stands at 4-3.Kiwi Minoprio (5-1) topped Group Two at the end of yesterday’s racing held in light and shifty conditions.