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Royal Ascot - Friday

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:08:13 +0000

Well, that was a much better day than the Wednesday. A nice 20/1 nap landed, a 5/1 winner in the first, Fame and Glory at 2s and Banimpire at 3's. Not a bad days work.And in all honesty, I didnt watch one race as I was down London all bloody day. Royal Ascot Review at 9:30 on ATR is in hand me thinks, ill try and give my inane mutterings on it at some point though.

Royal Ascot - Thursday

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 20:35:33 +0000

Worst days gambling ever. Only thing that went right was Lolly For Dolly winning - but I didnt back it myself. Great. My form read 2 (Codemaster instead of Fury) - 4-2-2-2-3. If only I had the placepot on or even EW in some cases, but no. All on the nose. Idiot. And as for So You Think.....complete superstar that looked. On the matter of So You Think, how is nothing being said about the fact Aidan O'Brien has held his hands up and took the blame, and not for getting the tactics wrong or anything like that, no no, he just decided not to train it properly. Brilliant Aidan. Im sure the chap who had £95k on the horse would liked to have had that information before popping the bet on. Staggering arrogance to think a horse can just tip up and beat some top horses.

Royal Ascot - Wednesday

Wed, 15 Jun 2011 08:11:06 +0000

A hit and miss day with one or two bets coming in and hopefully it will have put a few pence in your pockets for Day 2. For me, the standout performance of the day was the horse I hoped wouldnt win and that was Canford Cliffs. Being a massive Goldikova fan I was hoping she would do the business but for all her trying she just didnt have the turn of foot to go with Canford. Obviously not helped by Peslier being a complete spoon and weighing in 2lb over because he picked the wronh shoes up - typical of the French. However, if Canford was to win then I would have wanted it to be impressively.....and it was. Hope this talk of Frankel v Canford comes to fruitition, although only one winner in my book, which brings me nicely on to that winner - Frankel.

Royal Ascot - Tuesday

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:05:07 +0000

Ok, back again after a lengthy lay-off, I thought after two decent priced naps in 2 days I should have myself time off, and I always struggle with the flat season to be honest - nigh on impossible to pick a winner in these 25 runner 5f dashes. A horse could be 1/20 and I still wouldn't be confident.

Having said all that - it seems right that I talk nonsense on Royal Ascot, at least you have half a chance of picking a winner in these races......most of them anyway.

Fridays Punchestown Nonsense

Fri, 06 May 2011 08:53:42 +0000

Following on from yesterdays ramblings where I had an average day, couple of decent price EW shots placing, and my Nap of the day double of Captain Chris and Quevega winning, it has give me tiny bit of money to play with going into Friday.
Before picking tomorrows losers, its probably the done thing to discuss yesterdays action first - and the one thing that I think to come out of this was....should Quevaga go for Big Bucks in the World Hurdle at Cheltenham, I don't think she was as impressive as she was at Cheltenham yesterday, but if Willie Mullins' put all his efforts into getting her in peak condition (as he does for the mares), then surely shell give him a huge race, even more so than Grand Crus did. However, on the other hand - is it really that bad being the best mare around by a country mile and winning the Davy Nick's year after year?

Back with more nonsense

Thu, 05 May 2011 08:55:31 +0000

Apologies on the recent lull in blogs, but I haven't missed much - only the Grand National, the start to the flat season and the 1000 & 2000 guineas....... but if its any consolation, I think the only one I could have tipped was Frankel at 1 to 2. Not the greatest insight the racing world has ever seen.

Cheltenham Festival 2011 - Unbelievable

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:38:17 +0000

What a week. That's all I can say. From the Supreme Novice's right through to the Grand Annual (kind of), every race was a belter, and a few in particular were just unbelievable

Cheltenham Festival Day 4 - Friday

Mon, 14 Mar 2011 21:43:16 +0000

Its now 9pm on Monday 14th and I have to be up in 6 hours time (thanks to the Foster brothers) to start the long trek from the toon to Chelt's and I don't think I am going to sleep much to be honest - but not even the sad new of Dougie Costello's injury is going to tarnish my week (except maybe Friday when Midnight Chase won't get his normal ride).

Anyway, as I said above - I've got to be up soon so I am going to try and keep this brief and to the point - while still managing to pick out a loser in every race (I'm thinking negative in the hope the opposite happens).

Cheltenham Festival Day 3 - Thursday

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:19:23 +0000

By this point I will be blowing out of my arse but will still have to drag myself to another day of drinking and gambling (always a good combo). Thursday isn't the greatest days racing but there is still some top drawer animals on show and one or two good races in store.

I wont be betting mega bucks on this day other than on the big race, but here's what I'm going to run with on Day 3......

Cheltenham Festival Day 2 - Wednesday

Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:43:19 +0000

Reet, so I've just woke up with Â£10,000 in my pocket after 6 wins and 7 places from the first day and I'm wondering what to do with it - spend it more horses is the answer....and here's the horses in question.......

Cheltenham Festival Day 1 - Tuesday

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:31:49 +0000

Well its been a while since my last blog and the reason for this is that the racing hasn't been magnificent and to be honest, not worth writing about. My time's been much better spent ploughing through the cards for Cheltenham Festival and trying to pull a winner out of a race with 160 runners still declared isn't the easiest thing I've ever done, but its par for the course at Cheltenham.

I'm going to try and pick the winner and an each way shout in each race and if I can get 3 winners all week I'll be a happy man. So without further ado, lets crack on with the picks....

Rubbish Friday - but hopefully a better Saturday..

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:47:18 +0000

Not the greatest days betting on Friday but it was saved by Recession Proof coming home nicely at 14/1. Saved my day as apart from that Cornas was plum last, Tarablaze got smashed by 50 or so lengths, Cappagh didn't perform and Tricky Trickster was woeful......and to top it all off, my Nap of the Day was a non-runner - brilliant.
I do feel I need to give a mention to a horse I tipped in the Aon chase and that was Fair Along - a massive eye-catcher for me who looks like it was just getting started after 3 mile - one to watch..

Rubbish Friday - but hopefully a better Saturday..

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:47:18 +0000

Some Delayed Winners......I hope.

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:43:07 +0000

Friday's action sees the rescheduled meeting of Newbury which took place last Saturday and was abandoned in shocking circumstances due to the death of two horses in the paddock prior to the opening race. I'm not going to get on my high horse about this that and the other and a lot of things have been said over the past 5 days, but in my opinion the correct decision was made. No one knew what had happened and when that is the case, you cannot take a chance - would it really have been worth risking the lives of all those horses for the sake of 6 days. Course not.

It's hard trying to think of titles for these blogs......

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 21:54:08 +0000

Another week goes by and another day of cracking racing lies ahead. But before I go into details of Saturdays action I'm going to moan. The reason I'm going to moan is about nothing other than luck - I was a horse's head away from a cracking win last Saturday and the horses head in question was that of Firm Order who just managed to hold Legion D'Honneur, which would have been 4 out of 4 in my Lucky 15, and at 16/1 would have topped it off marvellously. But no. Firm Order had to go and spoil it and for that reason jockey Will Kennedy is on my black list (until Time for Rupert runs next).