Darn non runners!

We were close to an account bet today but a non runner ruined the plans.

Last night we had a good word for Issaquah in the 2.40. The message was "A good run is expected and we can't see it out of the first 3 at around 10/1"
Unfortunately Knight In Purple was pulled out at 8.30 meaning we were looking at a 7 runner race so two places as well as a shorter price than expected.

Rather than an account bet we put it on Twitter as a free bet and it hosed up at 5/1. Typical!

Its always a fine line when asked the question, whats worse, missing a winner or backing a loser?
If we were a service that backed 60 or 70 horses a month we would possibly have still made Issaquah an account bet but the reduction to two places left us feeling we didn't have an edge so no bet.

The weather looks to be set to impact the racing fixtures over the next week or so with some horrendous weather forecast for Scotland and Northern Ireland tonight.
Exeter is abandoned already for tomorrow and Newton Abbot are inspecting tomorrow for Saturday.

Hopefully though we should still have a bet or two before the weekend, all being well.

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