If you had a big treble on Altior, Douvan and Thistlecrack, would you be getting excited yet?

The whole gamut of emotions for me. Pessimistic one day, "this sort of thing won't happen to me", optimistic the next, "well, what can beat them?", stoic the next, "oh well, it was nice to dream".
REPEAT.

Altior 3/1
Douvan 4/6
Thistlecrack 7/2

£3,000 treble.

90 big ones roger I wish you all the best!!!!
For what it's worth if they are all there as the tapes go up I would like to think your in! A nervy 2 months for you

F*ck me, who did you get that on with roger?

Min is the most likely danger to spoilling the bet.  Thistlecrack will likely face tougher opposition from Ireland and Native River than he did in the King George, but he is the most likely winner.

If i had that bet i would now have had an equal grand laid on each of the 3 runners lol. No way i could stomach the wait or heart ache just in case it happened.

My bets are all £15-£50s and i have somersaulting stomach's at them lol and i manage to get holidays! My flight to Australia cost £2450 on Emirates Newcastle-Dubai-Melbourne-Launceston for 3 of us.

3k treble GOOD LUCK

Great prices good luck. Would have a bit on Native River if you get to the third leg would think Tizzard is well represented with his.

I thought he meant he'll win 3 grand...i.e. £100 treble

bit harsh harry callahan ,shirley its a question of liabilities ,i  have  no trouble getting anti post multi,s  on, stakes are usually no more than a £100 but liabilities can run up to the max payout of a million ,not hard to see why bookies will take multis as ante post the odds are on their  side.,even  the bald one  wouldnt knock back a multi ................

Don't leave the story there...what happened in the last leg? Take it you didn't land it?

also rog at the time of the bet i was unemployed so had fook all to do in the day to take my mind off the bet so went on long walks in the middle of the night  but i couldnt go out in the day for fear of bumping into "jerry the boch " a mate and fellow punter who  is a fookin jinx ,a jonah ,if i see him or have any contact the bet is defo  fooked , remember one year 1st day of the festival  watching it at home on the telly ,ten minuets before the champion hurdle, knock on the door ,missus answers its the boch he wants to watch the racing at mine ,my whole cheltenham rested on the champion hurdle ,on the previous saturday i was in the bookies and i had my last £15 on hendos  punjabi at 33s and the bock Has just entered the room my whole mood changed from being upbeat and looking forward to the festival to the inevetable doom !...................who ya backed says jerry ! thinking on my feet ,not had a bet says i ! if you tell him who you have backed its fooked (nap), an example  i remember having a big bet for me anyway on  big bucks in the hennesey watching it on the telly about 3 fences from home the phone rings " bollax " i answer it without taking my eyes off the race , its the boch "  he says you watching the race! yeah snaps me ! i shoulda slammed the phone down but he caught me off guard " then he utters the dreaded lines " ive backed this big bucks it aint half going well its jumping like a fookin  stag " arghhhhhhhhhhhhyou know the rest . so race starts and thankfully the boch has not mentioned punjabi ,he put the mockers on the fav ,binocular i think and also fooked celestial halo by saying he fancied that ,
anyway race started and coming to the last hurdle the bock is starting to get animated and excited,me i am sitting on my fooking hands wanting to explode and shout punjabi home! but darent utter a word  the boch would get it turned over ,   ce lestial halo binocular  and punjabi jump the last almost in line with punjabi just in front they are hammer and tongs right up to the line and geraghty and  punjabi wins it in a tight finish ..................i let out a sigh of relief  as the boch starts" effin and blinding  "how the fook did that donkey win"" fookin fix "calling hendo and geraty all the names under the sun ,when they weighed in i told him i backed punjabi "why didnt you tell me ,he says ! yeah right.......this game gets into you head

i know seathestars but in the days pre betfair when punters actually sat in the shops for me there was always a bock or jinx in all my regular haunts ,perhaps the big 3 knew this and employed a jinx for every shop

I used to have some habits. Slips have to be folded a certain way and put in my rear left pocket, a certain way, it has to have been written out a certain way etc. But that was when i was younger.

I actually went a spell where i stopped believing that it existed quite recently actually, helped along by the manager of the local stans, he doesn't know it lol (well i guess he does now if he reads this pmsl) but i'm talking like in the last 6 years.

Well he is one of the top tipsters on O L B G horse racing forum, i don't follow his selections but that's not to say i haven't tried in the past to follow with a strategic staking plan, i just don't have the discipline for that carry on and prefer to select my own anyways. I prefer ante-post too, far easier to hold a disciplined approach i find.
Anyway's we both do the same thing when racing is on terrestrial tv we always try to look for them horses that are shortening up that certain bookmakers push back out for a short period of time in the mornings. I always look up the ashleigh post on the horse racing forum, he doesn't have to. What with having a racing post delivered he's often in that shop early enough so as he can pick the ricks out easily enough. Now and again one is missed by me and i try to get to find out what it is this guy has backed that i aint spotted and when he's in his mischievious mood he'll spout "no chance effing jinx" (as a means of a joke) look for it yourself. Of course one don't have the time by this point so i tend to just let him have his 'moment' lol. Every now and again there be a big priced winner i've missed out on and he'll then spout things like didn't you find it then? Some shrewdies got 40s for that 16s winner etc etc, 99% of the time it's utter bollox and we can all see through him but you get my drift on what kind of guy he is.

So after a couple months of this i thought, there is no such thing as a jinx, feck it, i'm going to prove it and i started doing stuff that i wouldn't normally do in the past for fear that i would never ever back another winner haha so i scribbled the name of the horse down with just the time, got the receipt for the bet and stuffed it in my pocket where i had all my money. Absolutely no go, never put a bet in the same pocket as your money cos some how that bet will know you have money already so you don't need to win and it will lose, will always lose, even if it's 1/100 it will find a way of losing. IT WON and that was end to all my stupid habits.

We all have them though, well most of us do anyways now

ol roger is going through the emotions no doubt every few mins his mind will be on it ,but this is the easy calm relaxed period ,just wait untill fingers crossed the 1st 2 go in ..............then the fun starts ,when i was waiting for the last one to go in in the 2 days before the missus gave up talking to me she got the right hump ,she knew i had a big bet going on and on ,spending it before i had got it , she kept fookin saying and youll love this "how much do WE  stand to win "  i would always answer politely of course  with BOLLAX youll jinx it ,for some strange reason she never swore back at me and was most forgiving ,charm personified which was most out of character,  cant think why tho ........she gave up saying things like is it more than £20,000 what about £30 k  and just kept shtum fook i thought i had gone deaf for 2 days ..

its probably why as harry findlay once said "gambling is the greatest game in the world " one day you could be doing your bollax the next you are reaching for the stars ,the ups and downs highs and lows are what keep us coming back again and again !

Yeah, waiting with trepidation for the inevitable next big name that will be ruled out before the festival to be one of these three.

Cheers Maelduin.

Amazing tale, cracked me up. Jerry The Boch! Keep this fella away from me for the next two months!

RTB, I had an ante-post bet to win a similar amount last year, and my emotions sound very similar to yours. Like you say, confidence grew with each passing week. Looking back, I enjoyed five months of great fun, followed by two months when I thought of little else, bordering on paranoia (Foyleswar's comments made me laugh, and struck a chord). You'll probably be in a position to hedge at some point and, if it's any help, all I'd say is do what you think is right. I received plenty of advice along the way, but ultimately it was my decision. The main thing I learned is that, a bit like pain thresholds, everyone has their breaking point. Positions like yours don't happen every day, so I hope you enjoy it and see the bet through (I'll be rooting for two of them!). It's only money after all.

What was your bet Elsie? Did you land it?