Cheltenham Festival
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Last 5 years been quite fortunate, been either up ( about 2.5k my best ) or level on week, which I'm quite happy with... had some right stinkers over the years I remember one year leaving the course on Friday with only shrapnel left in my pocket had not bet 1 winner all week, another I bet Detroit city and it was my 1st winner of week, I remember the relief as it was about my last notes on it and thinking I could go into town after racing!
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2006 (the year you mention Detroit City winning the Triumph) - it was an absolute bloodbath, was just happen if purchased a return train ticket so was able to get back to Birmingham to fly home
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*happy I purchased*
Stupid fkin phone |
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Pretty much all the festivals until I started hedging my bets,and picking more than one horse in a race.
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Set out with a budget - and have lost that, but never chased losses after that.
I tend to go in roughly five year cycles of three years breaking even, one year losing the lot and one year winning spectacularly. |
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buddeliea 01 Mar 17 07:51 Joined: 19 Mar 04 | Topic/replies: 12,984 | Blogger: buddeliea's blog
Pretty much all the festivals until I started hedging my bets,and picking more than one horse in a race. You and i are so much alike I remember one year i had like a tenner left, and wanted to back 2 horses. Needed money to get home again, eat etc etc. Why oh why i didn't just split stakes and back both i will never know, one was like 5/2 fav other was 10/1 but hey, the fav was backed it lost by a nose and the 10/1er dotted up  |
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1998 was a shocker. Never had a winner but was still confident going into the Gold Cup with 11/2 2nd Fav See More Business sat on a 40/1 AP slip. The rest is history and I was the laughing stock. Thankfully, I stuck with him in 99, but 98 still gives me shivers.
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I only started keeping proper records in 2010.... But 2012 was the one for me. Backed 11 seconds and had a disastrous week.
Been kind to me since though. |
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thankfully not had many but the year the weds was off for strong winds, hard to imagine a worse meeting for me
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Barton winning the sun alliance hurdle year was a good one for me, khayrawani won the Coral cup and majadou also, rooster booster good year also, one knight.
The year See More Business and Flagship Uberalles both got beat in the GC and CC was a particularly bad year. |
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The year sts got enough to go Australia maybe this he'll win enough for a trip to the moon,he won't have to win much as he's on a different planet as it is
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I had a real shocker about 7 years ago, bet in every race, had 38 bets in total and no winners!
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Love comments like that. Make my day haha jealous as fook haha
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Good lad
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