Flat in with a profit!

A good if slightly frustrating day for us today on the first day of the flat season.

We had a bet on Thursday for the Lincoln, Penitent, 4pt win @ 7/2.
In truth we expected this to start around 9/4 or 5/2 today and the SP of 3/1 (much bigger on Betfair) was a surprise.
Much of the drift was probably due to the confusion over the draw but it didn't matter much as the results was never in too much doubt.

Second up we though we were on two from two in running. Squires Gate, 3pt win @ 11/2 was given a slightly strange start to the race as he was pulled in behind to take a middle course.
He was absolutely cruising with around 300 yards to run and trading at long odds on in running but didn't find anything like it looked he would and he could only manage 3rd.
A very promising horse all the same and one to keep on the right side of.

Finally we had Presvis, 2pt win @ 5/2.
Where possible we try not to blame jockeys as its a hard job and it makes us sound like bad losers. However, Christophe had an absolute nightmare on this today!
He looked to have a ton of horse under him with 500 metres to run only to manage to run in behind a wall of horses with no possible way out. From 6/4 to 50/1 on Betfair in around 3 seconds.

A nice profit on the day though and we will show around 35 points in profit for March when our web guys update the website after the weekend.

Finally, we seemed to have all kinds of problems with members receiving our emails today for some reason.
Last week we had our emails to Hotmail accounts blocked by them as they saw it as spam. After 10 or so emails back and forth to them they saw we don't send spam in any way and allowed our messages through.
They seem to have blocked them again today. Messages to Googlemail, BT Internet and some yahoo accounts also seemed to fail to get through. Some others with yahoo accounts got our messages 3 times.

We never send unwanted emails and this is particularly frustrating as we get around 10 spam messages a day, much of it racing related.

We will be looking into what we can do about this and will probably have to sent 2 emails for the time being to ensure one gets through. - one from our server and one from Hotmail.
In the mean time can we ask all members who don't currently get the bets sent by SMS to send us your mobile numbers if possible so we can add you to the SMS list.
Its always good to have that as a back up, just in case.

Its unlikely there will be a bet tomorrow but we are interested in the Bumper at Hexham (4.55).
However, we need to have a close look at the ground.
If there is a bet it will go out later than usual but before 3.30.

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