Cheltenham bets,which horse cost you the most money????

Maljimar when it got chinned by that sodding Mccoy oss

Punchestowns 09 Stayers, had a load on him, Big Bucks arrives!

Oscar Delta cost me five figures when he jinked left and threw Jane Mangan off in last year's Foxhunters.

Thats gotta hurt.

Djokovic - OZ Open
Simonsig - Arkle
Hurricane Fly - Champion Hurdle
Quevega - Mares
Sprinter Sacre - Champ Chase
Boston Bob - RSA

Placed in early January last year


Still Neptune Collonges catching Sunnyhillboy on the line in the National hurt more.

Maljimar....Sunnyhillboy, Oscar Delta
All 3 of em still make me go

That's a real hard one to take with Oscar Delta, Ramruma, I was gutted and had a tenner at 28's.


No way linc, I had the exact same bet with GMOOH, had the bigger prices with GMOOH, think it was 18's, 20's, but I'm sure the others were lower.....not that it matters now, think it was about 4k it cost me. That was the time photo finishes cost me at least 4 figures 3 times within a space of a year. How I laugh at it now

Valiramix had been backing him through the season, poor thing.

Oscar Delta in the Foxhunters last year

{shudders}

@Fabulous, @lincthesinc -- I wish I'd not posted it now. It has brought it all back and now I'm feeling low again after having managed to wipe it out of my mind. Worse things happen at sea.

Having backed Salsify the year before I wasn't abandonning it last year, but the Foxhunters hasn't always been so lucky for me. I'd had a 'Run' double for big numbers in the year Long Run won the Gold Cup and Willie jumped off Baby Run half an hour later.

Two stick in my craw.

Had a lovely £20 antepost double on Captain Cee Bee for the Supreme @ 20/1 (won) and Venalmar for the Ballymore (Neptune) at 33/1 (who just got pipped on the line by fiveforthree and Ruby Walsh. This was the year when they abandoned the Wednesday and the race was run on the new course instead of the old course. This change in track made all the difference in my opinion as Venalmar would have been far better suited to the sharper Old Course. Cost me over £14k anyway.

Had first 4 winners on Gold Cup day last year all running on to Chapoturgeon @ 5/1 in the Foxhunters. Laid off £300 so made some money but would have been closer to £7k if he'd won.

Hope you enjoy a change of fortune this year Ramruma...........you deserve it

Was at Haydock the day Cinders and Ashes slogged through the mud to win his Supreme trial. Had a £10 double on him to win the Supreme at 25/1 and Zarkander to win the champion hurdle at 12/1

Sprinter Sacre - Arkle 14/1
Simonsig - Supreme 20/1

£10 double

Simonsig would have p!ssed that Supreme!!!!

2012 £1 ew Cinders & Ashes won Balthazar King won Huntball won Overturn (20/1) 2nd in front of Hurricane fly but beat by Rock on Ruby.  Still remember the bet has if it was yesterday.

£1 ew yankee^^

Oscars Well when he sprawled after the last in the Neptune, was on ante-post at about 20's and also in an ante-post e/w double with Boston's Angel who won the RSA about half an hour later.

Also, not one horse but the placepot on gold cup day 2010 was huge and missed it by a leg (Albert Bartlett) nearly put the Nicholls second string in and it would have got me through to the tune of about £33k. Had to keep the outlay down..... ah well!

Memory not so good, but think it was Granville Again let me down for the placepot one year, i thought it had fallen at the last, it finished fourth.

Also had a 20 acca, first three won and had Pyscho trained by Tony Martin as the last leg ridden by P Carberry,it ran in the County, came from last place(ish) 2 out, then at the last fence it took 2nd and got beat less than a length.

Deffo not Carberrys finest hour cost me 5 figures.

Still remember its red jacket slicing through the field, like a knife through butter.

Oh well, Good Luck this year everyone.

Funnily enough, he campaigned Ted Veale in the same races last year and had it all prices from 25s in to 10s on the day.

It won although it was only smallish stakes.

Small compensation/Large aftertiming

He only cost me £2 in the end after laying a lot off, but Karanja unseating Nina at the start of the bumper cost me a potential £800 payout from ante post bets as long as 80 before he became the favourite on the day. A net 400 to one bet looked pretty good until the tapes went up.

Sorry M13, I had Silver Jaro in that race at 50's (don't care if that's aftertiming).

I remember it was pitch black because of the four days into three year. My only other winner in the entire festival was Tidal Bay in the Arkle, so Silver Jaro got me out of a hole.

That was my first ever Cheltenham as well, so if Silver Jaro hadn't won, I probably would never have gone back, so I owe him a lot.

My brother kept telling me to back Cousin Vinny in the bumper but heard Zaarito was a "good thing" and backed accordingly, which was stupid!

If i remember Wellchief, Silver Jaro was well tipped up in the getting out Stakes, i seem to remember Matt Chapman yup him and i think maybe wrongly that Hugh Taylor gave the winner.

Oh well good for you, a 50-1 winner is exceedingly rare but at Cheltenham and the last race, at your 1st Cheltenham Festival, well thats the stuff Dreams are made of !! Brilliant.

Good Luck this Year.

Aftertiming Alert -  I had Silver Jaro at 110 on here for a few of quid, great way to end the week.

Dunguib

Edeymi let me down 2700 when it got beat off Henderson's 40-1 shot,then a day later had a 5we treble on sir des champs 4-1,cape tribulation 16s and Albertas run at 12s when it just got beat off riverside theatre,gutted wasn't the word

I never worked amounts out, but every horse that I picked on the day it was abandoned because of the winds, either won or was placed when it subsequently ran.

I tend to do each way bets at those sorts of prices, fiver placepot etc.

It'd have been a good day for me.

Inglis Drever in the Sun Alliance novices' hurdle. Still don't know how the three time world hurdler was beaten by what turned out to be a rag.

this brings back good and bad memorys a few years back I put on an ante post multiple for the festival  singles doubles trebles and a £20 each way acca on the Tuesday .arkle sizing Europe 13/2 won .....Wednesday champion chase big zeb went in at 12/1 followed by weapons amnesty at 12/1 singles doubles and treble landed then it started to dawn on me roughly how much I had running onto my final selection in Fridays gold cup on the acca  ,hardly slept a wink for the next 2 nights  walking around in a daze could think of feck all else ,hardly ate a meal those next 2 days the tension was , anyway to cut a long and painfull story short I had £23,000 plus running onto cooldine in imperial commanders gold cup ,won a good whack on the singles doubles and treble but the acca would have been the life changer ,still hurts now .

This weekend in 1999 still brings back the best and worst memories for me. Placed an ante-post bet with Corals the Friday before the Irish CH as wanted to be on French Holly before it hammered Istabraq and romped to favouritism for THE CH and also be on See More Business before it won the Pillar the next again weekend and got cut for the Gold Cup. Both lost and my enthusiasm waned somewhat. I can remember the bet as if I were writing it now.

6 x £3 doubles, 4 x £5 trebles and a tenner e/w acca,

French Holly (7/1)3rd
Call Equiname (Champion Chase 25/1) WON
Katarino (Triumph 8/1) WON
See More Business (14/1)WON

I will never forget the atmosphere in my local pub when See More Business got up to be Go Ballistic in the GC and landed me a 22K windfall, the place was going bonkers. Now time has worn on and the money is well gone I still reflect on what might have been, not so much re French Holly losing but more if only I had put the mighty Istabraq in as a banker as it was trading at 7/4 if I remember correctly for the CH when the bet was placed. How many gamblers have said "if only" over the years.

Here's when it gets silly, as the next year I thought I would try and repeat the event and the same bet was placed but double the stakes

Fadalko (Arkle 8/1) Fell
Edredon Bleu (CC 7/1) WON
Lord Noelie (Sun Alliance CH 12/1) WON
Looks Like Trouble (GC 12/1) WON

Fadalko ran again on the Thursday and finished a clear 2nd in the Cathcart, while not claiming it would have beaten Tiutchev in the Arkle I would love to have found out!

Apologies if this appears indulgent but it is actually cheering me up thinking of the good old days when I seemed to land some great Ante Post bets (also had Bacchanal at 33/1 for Stayers Hurdle in 2000) as ever since I have been on the most horrendous run and any thoughts that I was a "judge" have long gone and I fully expect every ante-post bet I place to not even go close (who says confidence isn't important in selecting horses!).

I often wonder why my luck, or judgement has totally deserted me and come to the conclusion that I probably thought I was indestructible after such fantastic bets and have paid for that arrogance and cannot find the thought process that served so well back then.

Good luck to all on landing that life-changer, as although money is money, if you asked me of a more thrilling and satisfying way to obtain it there is none I can think of that would be better than by way of landing a touch involving the sport you love.

joe mac in the bumper in 1998,backed three winners on the day French holly,florida pearl and wandering light and put pretty much all my winnings on him and to top it off if sparky gayle had won the milmay of flete instead of a fast finishing second I would have won the ten to follow for Cheltenham week

Oh Saritimer, 'If only' indeed. What a great post and completely agree. Money is only money but there is no more thrilling way of obtaining it.

Good luck with your APs this year

Saritamer,can you tell me your 4 fancies for this years festival so i can weigh in on the trebles?

So close but still great stuff on the ones you mention ^

Cheers guys, can't stop thinking about what this years "life changer" will be, have to keep believing as they say.....

2010 Festival had this ante-post Lucky 15

Peddlers Cross neptune  won
Albertas Run Ryanair  won
Sizing Europe Arkle Won
Wishful Thinking Coral Cup Fell 3 out when swinging

Picked up a nice wedge but what might have been. Oh and to add insult to injury i've backed Wishful Thinking in every outing since his first run under rules...Except Saturday just gone :(

I expect to see myself in the aftertimers thread shortly.

Oscars Well, had him in an ew Yankee and ew trixie with Boston's Angel and Sizing Europe, still feel that hurt !!!

Got the Buena Vista, Alberta's Run, Big Bucks, treble in both years as part of e/w Yankee. Can't remember the two horses on each occasion that lost me a (relatively) big pay out. Still paid well as BV went off at double figure price both years.

Classy post Saritamer. I enjoyed reading that.

If I am allowed to include flat racing, a non racing friend rang me to tell me that he had been tipped Venture Capitalist for the Wokingham (ridden by Alex Greaves) at 40/1 and Piccolo for the Kings Stand at 33/1. I already fancied Piccolo so agreed to join him and the person who gave him the tip in a combination bet of £20 each way both horses and a £10 ew double. I had a tax free account in Gibraltar at the time and the bet was accepted. VC was only fourth (4 places) but only beaten a neck and 2 short heads while Piccolo won easily. A good payout but the nearest I have been to a 5 figure pot.

If I am allowed to include flat racing, a non racing friend rang me to tell me that he had been tipped Venture Capitalist for the Wokingham (ridden by Alex Greaves) at 40/1 and Piccolo for the Kings Stand at 33/1. I already fancied Piccolo so agreed to join him and the person who gave him the tip in a combination bet of £20 each way both horses and a £10 ew double. I had a tax free account in Gibraltar at the time and the bet was accepted. VC was only fourth (4 places) but only beaten a neck and 2 short heads while Piccolo won easily. A good payout but the nearest I have been to a 5 figure pot.

Celestial Halo's (took 9/1)short head second to Punjabi in the 2009 Champion Hdle cost me just over 20 grand in a £5 win antepost yankee. The other selections were Zaynar won 4/1 triumph hdle, Well Chief to finish 2nd to Master Minded Champion Chase, won 9/2 and Dunguib won 7/1 Champion bumper. I still got a decent return though.