Horse Racing

Just a short post today folks to announce,  and invite entries to, this years Royal Ascot Tipping Competition

Following on from the success of the tipping competition I ran over Christmas and then during the Cheltenham Festival, I thought it would be nice if everybody could have a crack at Royal Ascot (my second favourite flat meeting of the year after Glorious Goodwood)

I've had a think about the best way to run the competition and I hope I've developed with a fair and reasonable structure.

The co…

Hello everybody,

It's been quite some time since I managed to put a post up on here. Particularly one with such a lovely alliterative title!

For that, you have my apologies. I've been buried neck deep in work with the launch of my Evening Value Service and I have neglected this blog scandalously. I won't do it again - I promise. In fact, I've got some exciting new stuff on it's way for the blog which I'll tell you about later in the week.

Actually very glad to have that launch out of the way - I'm …

After a miserable first two days of theFestival for me, I will be treading very carefully for the final day .

I will, however, be getting further involved in the big race tomorrow.

If you read last week's early look at the National, I'm already on Chicago Grey and Killyglen but will use today's post to have a more in depth look at the trends for the race to see if I can tease our another couple of selections.

The temptation when using trends can be to drill down too far in the quest for only a coup…

Just a very short post today dear readers

I was intending to leave my post until tomorrow when I will have an in depth look at the national but, after casting my eye over the Foxhunters tomorrow, I thought I'd post today because I'm hoping there will be a touch of value available later today.

As things stand, nobody is currently offering prices but this is a race with strong trends and I've managed to narrow down the 26 runner field to just a couple who fit the profile.

The strong trends for this r…

Just a brief post today peeps, taking a quick look back at the fate of my first decent bet of the flat season and a look forward to the Grand National, which is almost upon us.

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It was a rum old day on Saturday. First big meeting of the 2012 flat season and my first decent bet was undone by the width of a fag paper and what looked to be a half decent draw proving to be more of a hindrance than a help.

The writing was on the wall for Mull of Killough after the Spring Mile at 2.0…

The sun is beating down and you could be forgiven for thinking it was Royal Ascot week rather than a couple of days before the Lincoln.

The flat season is almost here and bettors with any sense will be reining their stakes in over the coming month until the form settles and we know where we are.

That being said, I thought I'd use today's post to take an in depth look at the Lincoln Handicap on Saturday, the first major flat race of the season. Here's hoping we can find a couple at value prices.

The…

A very good morning to all,

It's only a short one today, looking back over the highs and lows of another Cheltenham past along with a cry for help!

 

Cheltenham Highs

Cheering Finians Rainbow past Sizing Europe on the run in of the Queen Mother Champion Chase. What was looking like an unpleasant Cheltenham for me on the betting front, was saved, right there in a single moment.

Synchronised - a little horse with a huge heart -showing every ounce of that heart and a will of steel to go past them all an…

Wow - what a first couple of days it has been. I could write a novel but I will try to be as succinct as possible.

 

Day 1 and 2 Ponderings

No one is a bigger fan than I of Tony McCoy and I certainly don't like to criticise the 16 time Champion Jockey, but I have to say, in my honest opinion, he gave Binocular a shockingly bad ride in the Champion Hurdle on Tuesday.

He made the, frankly, amateurish mistake of racing one horse rather than the field. He was so intent on tracking Hurricane Fly that by …

The waiting is nearly over.

The beers are chilling nicely, the boys are primed for an early arrival at mine tomorrow, everything looks set -I'm having my own version of the Cheltenham Festival at my house this year.

A much more civilised Festival will be had. Good beer, good food and good company are the order of the day. I will be watching every race in it's entirety from the comfort of my sofa. No hour long queues for a drink, no loud mouth screaming in my ear, no craning my neck around some ove…

Cheltenham Festival fever appears to have hit the country and I've been swamped with calls from friends, family and acquaintances asking me what I like for next week.

Very few of my friends and family (for that read 0) understand the concept of value and when I explain to them I'm not hunting for winners, I'm hunting for value their eyes glaze over and they say "just give me a winner."

The whole thing is getting to be a damn headache. Not the festival, I'm looking forward to that, just the once or…