Not too hot today, Billie

One account bet today, a very disappointing one.

Chillie Billie, 6pt win @ 2/1 was fancied to run a very big race today.
He ran well first time up in a hot looking race and worked superbly with one of the stables recent winners recently.

We were tempted to go maximum stakes but as we knew nothing about the unraced horses we decided to play more sensibly.

There was a deluge of money for Chillie Billie up to the off as he was backed down to 5/4.
Gatepost (unraced) was also very well supported from an early 4/1 down to 15/8.

Our selection broke well and pulled hard. Given a bit of cover it was clear to see he wasn't travelling as expected after a couple of furlongs.
He was eased inside the final furlong to finish a disappointing 6th.

The feedback after the race was that he felt jarred on the hard going and was never travelling.
To be fair, he might not have beaten Gatepost anyway, as the winner looked fairly smart winning quite easily.

Poor stuff today but horses aren't machines and sometimes things don't go as expected.

No racing tomorrow so we will be back on Saturday.

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