Halfway through. How are you doing?

So far a Diaster,went out on last leg in pp.1 winner in 14 races so far.

Day 1/ Holywell and Quevega with a good return on L'Unique on Day 1 made up for my biggest ever bet on The New One and a terrible Supreme
Day 2/ Balthazar King and Silver Concorde big winners making up for big losses on Sizing Europe and Many Clouds. Also had the 24/1 Vautour/Faugheen PP enhanced double for a nice return.
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Day 3/ Big each way bet on At Fishers Cross that has the potential to make my day
Day 4/ Have a £5 trixie on Vautour & Faugheen running onto Briar Hill that will make my festival whatever else happens.

Well done today Mr E and good luck for tomorrow
My position at the moment is twice as bad as this time yesterday. have been going close. Smad Place,Any Currency,Bailey Green, was
just making his move when tipping up 3 out. Also Ballyglasheen  who was out of the FW at the 2nd through no fault of his own

Getting down to a study up now and hoping for a change of luck tomorrow

Day 1, one of my worst ever days at Cheltenham in 25 years.

Day 2, 90% back and hit the woodwork 3 times as well.

If that rate of progress continues, I could be retiring come Friday evening.

I don't like these threads unless you can somehow verify people's bets but i'm stickler for that!

Been a disappointing 2 days for me so far.

Day 3 will decided this years profit or loss.

Well all of my bets, winners and losers, are on various freds with the exception of Silver Concorde but I didnt decide that until mid-morning when I read Weld's comments in the RP which completely contradicted the prices of SC and Vigil, and by then I was already out of the house.

Doing ok,enjoying it all as normal,more ups then downs so far.....just, but its only halfway!!

Summed up a typical festival really, having GMOOH losing a tight finish followed by having Balthazar winning one.

Oscar Whisky, Annie Power and Last Instalment could make it a real good week, LI especially.

Good luck 2nd half Mr Eboue and all.

good to hear mr e.

My are posted on freds around this forum, clearly not the steaks.

tues

max ew Fautour, max win champange fever, mid bet ew on holywell, no champion apart from ante, max ew on shotgun paddy.

wed

mid bet on Red Sherlock, mid ew on Sam Winner, big bet on far west, all in on SDG.

-£800 on ante post, been a disaster unless Triolo can get me out of that hole, but well up so far so i can at least go into the last 2 days and not worrying i fail badly.

Day 1 - Big E/W Irving and Dodging Bullets. Massive bet on The New One, small bets on Sirene D'ainay and  Attaglance
Day 2 - Bad start with Red Sherlock, Sire De Grugy and Balthazar King first 2 winners but still a poor start.

3/4 - Oscar Whiskey/Big Bucks/Bobs Worth to save the day

cant believe i posted fautour

Vautour ffs

I know Mary. Not having a dig at anyone. It's just a thing I have, like to see who's backed what beforehand so you can see it is all.  All my bets are posted too. Day 3 will decide my week for sure!

well done Eboue. Try not to give it all back!

Day 3 traditionally not my best day. Quiet Cheltenham this year thus far. Just got my nose in front with Faugheen. Don't intend to give it em back.

Champagne Fever getting nutted on the line and then The New One being hampered cost me a packet and it was all downhill today until the bumper. Roll on Thurs/Fri.

did you not back SDG unclep ?

absolutely destroyed...massive ew our conor..massive ew captain conan..big ew Cossack..
anyone got a spare tin of soup?

bang behind thanks to 3 seconds smad place  ,champagne fever ,shotgun paddy   & the new one   .  had to almost stop   . bet hollywell lightly for not a lot  after losing it in a nrnb  void bet .read he will win what race he goes for   b .Ellison I think  quoted that  .
chances now fingal's bay indian castle  rule the world ( last of the charge horses ) and menorah . ,..places only bob's worth  dynaste kings palace ,, need Oscar whisky to place  will help .. ...still 2 days to go   and be in again  ..  fancy broughton on Friday will top him up 14/1 now 8/1 .. impressed me at Musselburgh ..?? x -fingers sneak away not to far adrift ... all the best , soon be over again  ...

gl grumpy..nice to have you back

Day 1 - Bad. Was all over The New One for 11 months and backed Shotgun Paddy too
Day 2 - Backed Faugheen at 11/4 last week, £3 trixie with Faugheen, SDG and Balthazar King and a double on the first two. Then for good measure somehow managed to find the winner of the fred winter at 40/1 last night.

Bring on the rest of the action

yesterday,OK - celebs spotted were Merse (drinking water), Ray Parlour (don't think he was drinking water),Denise Lewis and, the daddy of 'em all, Bruce Forsythe (good game).

today was a disaster rescued only by a glimpse of Jim Davidson (nick,nick) and some sad act who apparently features in The Only Way is Essex (so I was reliably informed).

Back home tonight, tired, enjoying it, just about to start on tomorrow's cards - only halfway through and then Midlands National on Saturday(!)

Did n't back Sire De Grugy but thrilled to bits for the horse and his connections.

sofia Kenny stalking you on many ...threads , take it all is well as was off on  ..----sabathical for 14 months ..??

Had 33-1 GMOOH...Won only..... 16-1 Hinterland  5 races played in so far and only Holywell@12-1........

Seefood, Rule the World and Wetak....

my ante post bets have been crap so far but bets on the day have been fair , in front but not by much so far !

Day three mug multiple

Seefood @ 14/1
Sraid Padraig @ 9/1
Balnaslow @ 10/1
At Fishers Cross @ 10/1

ty grumpy..all is well apart from my bank a/c getting a battering!
my luck is simply dreadful at the moment...had a decent treble on fitba last night
..gubbed by goal in 95th minute for brum.ffs!..will back that horse you fancy that won at mussleboro..all the best pal.

doing well but Any Currency (traded at 1/50 in running) would have been tremendous.

Landed my biggest ever bet on SDG - thought it was ridiculous how they kept crabbing him when the rest of the field had bigger holes to shore up. Price was amazing - had some with Baldy Bouncer too so got 11/2 with him

Third Intention today!

carbon copy of last year for me, If Conti wins the gold cup, Mccoy getting my tent or yours beat will have cost me 10 grand, but on the plus side if conti does win he'll win me a grand, can't help but thinking the one that got away already though. Cooper falling off everything yesterday summed my wednesday up and any currency just failing has well and truly stuck the boot in. I love this game :) taquin du seuil, at fishers cross and most of JP's runners today will get me out the ****. good luck everyone.

A few tonne down overall - would have been a few grand had it not been for SDG yesterday.

miserable 1st day with lots of 2nds and a hampered 3rd
much better 2nd day with faugheen, big anteposts

goin into day 3 im break even so all profit from now on in

Just a bit down overall but a poor first day was partly saved by a small bet on Midnight Prayer. Slightly up yesterday thanks to Sire de Grugy and Balthazar King and luckily I swerved the Fred Winter completely which takes a lot of discipline from me.

I'm having one.

Thanks for asking.

I'm slightly in front thanks to Jonjo but it's  as tough a Cheltenham as I can remember. Apart from the world hurdle I'm playing safe and having a few EW bets today in the hope another one stoats today. Tomorrow doesn't look any less testing for punters so I expect to be losing by the end of the day unless last Instalment wins the Gold Cup...fingers crossed

Day 3 has been a belter for me. Changed the week drastically.

Stuck to my guns and just let my ante post bet ride which was More Of That. How was I to know when backing it at 8-1 I could have got 10-1 on the day.

me and you both Sint after an awful start im back in the game :)

Layed the life out of Annie Power but wasted so much of the profit on stupid handicap races where I was frittering money down the pan.

A good day but greed got the better of me.

Tomorrow's card is an absolute joke. 2 runner Gold cup and Albert Bartlett. Triumph looks very low on quality.

Blood bath for me today

triumph hurdle looks shocking really poor, took a chance with rutherglen based on his very quick time he clocked latest over hurdles. value at 12s rest are just a moderate bunch beating each other.

Cracking day today.

Uxizandre placed at 40s, Trustan Times placed at 25s, Rajdhani Express placed at 25s, At Fishers's Cross placed one of my biggest ever bets, then a winner in the last.

I think Calipto could be quite decent Brooksie. It's just whether he is streetwise enough against tomorrow's rivals.

Sorry about this thread I didn't realise it was an offence to say  you'd backed a winner if you hadn't posed it in a thread before the race ( Which I did but that's hardly the point ).

To my mind aftertiming is rubbing it in in an obnoxious manner after the event. '' I told you he'd win... I've made a fortune blah blah blah''.

If anyone is sad enough to claim they've backed a winner when they havn't then shame on them.

I'm sure there's no one on here as pathetic as that.

Stop posting on here lads. We're getting accused of all sorts of evil on the ante post forum.

Have you calmed down Mr E? Mary Chain has quite rightly put the culprits in there place. Totally unfair comments aimed at the both you

Anyway,back to the thread. Had a much better day today,due to laying. Only lost £400 quid. Still doing a hefty chunk over the 3 days and
get see anyway back tomorrow
Confidence shot to bits

Good luck on the morrow

Really disappointed with myself today. Annie Power not winning was a big win for me and I should have stopped there.

But I got drawn into the hype and frittered away money needlessly.

Tomorrow looks very hard. I might just have a small bet in the Gold cup and invest more on the placepot.

Anything you fancy tomorrow Giddy?

They didn't go to four days for the punters benefit. A lot of races now where you either need a pin or have sniffed something far enough ahead of the handicapper that the other plot horses haven't got more in hand. Championship races only for me.

Very good point. Some of these handicaps are a complete minefield. You could back ten and not get a sniff.

Just done 2 hours study on the County Hurdle. Montbazon and Alaivan are interesting but I'm bang out of form mate

Right way to go Eeternal. If only I had the discipline required.

If it's any consolation I had a shocking three days last year but managed to turn it around on day four. Best of luck to you.

Cheers mate and you

A lifetime of some bitter and some sweet has convinced me that I hate losing as much as I love winning. I hate putting the money down if I don't really fancy one and if that means 10 bets a year instead of 100 then so be it. And you can stick yer flat racing.

Viva Colonia looks worth a bet in the Grand Annual at 33/1. Also doing Raya Star there 10/1 win only.

I'm going to have a big bet on Bob's Worth and will wait to find the best price. I hope I get some 5/2 but I'll happily take 9/4. To be honest, I'd do with 2/1. I've got Last Instalment at 10s but dont think its going to get its ground. I've also done Cloudy Too at 66s.

I've just picked a couple of each way rags in the Foxhunters. F*cked if I'm spending more than £10 on that race, spent about 3 minutes on it, but gone for The Hollinwell 50/1 and Shy John 25/1.

I've got a £5 trixie rolling onto Briar Hill that pays a lovely amount. I didn't even remember I'd done it until Faugheen won and they partially settled the first double. I'll paste it in before I get slaughtered by the aftertiming police. Tempted to do £100 on King's Palace as cover but will wait until just before the off. I've also done a couple of each ways in that, as there's a couple that could well improve for the decent ground. Done Blakemount and Mosspark each way at 25/1 and 20/1.

14/02/2014    Trixie To Win    Faugheen @ 7/2
Win or E/W
13:30 NEPTUNE NOVICES' HURDLE (GRADE 1) 2m 5f    Win    £20.00    
Vautour @ 7/2
Win or E/W
13:30 SUPREME NOVICES' HURDLE 2m 1/2f    Win
Briar Hill @ 5/1
Win or E/W
14:40 ALBERT BARTLETT NOVICES' HURDLE 3m    Pending

I've got £5 on Abbyssial in the Triumph at 59 ave, and I've got Pearl Castle at 25s. Don't know if I'll add to that. In the County I've done Lyvvius at 25/1.

Will probably have another in the County and haven't gone through the Pipe race yet.

That trixie looks very sexy.

Its sexier than anything else that happened to me on Valentine's Day. (not really love, if you're reading this)

nearly beating last year.

had heinz up yesterday, 2 winners and 6 placed, i dont think i have dont before.

Was having a complete nightmare.  One winner (jezki).  Today I tried a speculative e/w lucky 31. First race fell, second race nowhere, third race very wood (thank goodness, still losing but damage limited). Fourth race- Last weekend my girlfriend and I went for a romantic weekend in the Lake district and having a sail down lake Windermere (have you guessed which outsider I backed yet??) Yes that's right I backed Triolo Dalene! Last one nowhere too.

Four bets in the week with a couple of winners. I won't be retiring.

Make that a lucky e/w 62. My girlfriend still isn't talking to me.  Lucky white heather??

^^^