Well, day one turned out to be a tricky one for us.
First up was one of our ante post bets from December, Dunguib.
There will be many blaming the jockey and maybe he should have kept him closer to the pace but he wanted to have a clear sight of the hurdles. A good race to watch and we don't think Dunguib would have won with a different jockey on board. We will never know.
We also had a small account bet in the 1.30, Oscar Whiskey, 1pt e/w @ 9/1 with Sky Bet who were paying first 4 home.
Fortunately they were, as we managed to finish 4th with a slight profit on the race.
In the Arkle we were on Captain Cee Bee, 3pt win @ 3/1. We knew he would be well backed and he was but unfortunately he left his jumping boots at home and wasn't fluent throughout.
Our final account bet of the day lost all chance with a bad jump as well. Garde Champetre, 3pt win @ 9/4. He travelled well but a bad mistake about 5 out cost him all chance and although he rallied he was never going to make up for that bad mistake.
Elsewhere, Binocular was an impressive winner of the big one. Hope those that layed this at 1000 managed to negate losses...
Khyber Kim ran a great race to finish second and lost nothing in defeat.
There will be an account bet tomorrow but possibly only one. There may be a bet away from Cheltenham as well.
We also have two ante post bets running tomorrow and are hoping for a better day!
We are currently just over 11 points in profit for March and almost 50 points in profit for 2010.
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1 day ago
Whilst I am dissapointed you did not get anywhere today, Cheltenham as you will well know is a bloody hard place to make money from, I was on Binocular with another service, wished I had played IR as well!!
ReplyDeleteI disagree with you slightly on Garde Champetre, whilst the mistake certainly did seal the fate, the fact for some reason she let herself get well boxed in was always going to be tough even with a clear round.
Hi,
ReplyDeleteThanks for your comment.
Difficult day throughout yesterday. Pleased to hear you were on Binocular, even if it wasn't at 999/1!
Re Garde Champetre.
In general we try not to blame the jockeys as its an easy way out for many services.
Nina has ridden this course plenty of times to know what she is doing but agree she did find herself in a lot of trouble.
Onwards and upwards to today!
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