The Jehovas Witness comparison is coming back to haunt me . I will have to give you the same suggestion I give to those when they come round on a Saturday afternoon just because they haven't anything better to do

Well done. All that and still able to do a better job than the official handicappers, Timeform, and anybody else wasting their time handicapping horses. As I said previously, a remarkable human being

dont think montridge will ever win a group 1 race,

probably not but this was not a strong group 1 race hence backing a group 2/3 horse to win it...just one group 1 winner running and it was a drifting favourite...if you tipped the horse on another forum a couple of days before, you clearly knew the ground would change how it did

wouldnt put anyone off betting their fav horses, one of the most successful ways to bet is on horses you know and like.

lol roadrunner i am mercenary and certainly not into favorite horses, else i suppose i should of been all over olympic glory saturday who i have shared some good days

dont see how you could see the possiblity of it beating tullius, that was an easy winner, and although hasnt won much, starting to improve now, thats another horse that will be group 2/3 level at most.

i think your missing the point - tullius had shown his best form on a soft surface and saturday was run on nearly a good/firm surface which should of favoured montiridge who was making his seasonal reappearance at sandown on ground not ideal and is 2 years younger and open to more improvement

anyway the game has clearly gone easy for some, i should of known he had no chance of turning that deficit around on his favoured surface like you point out...like i said in the opening post i felt like a mug backing the horse and you have certainly confirmed that with a good summary of the horse and why he couldn't of possibly of gone well against these mediocre horses

moonlight cloud form is excellent form, that horse has proven to be top class group 1 performer, who ran the famous black caviar to
within a short head at ascot, olympic glory was rated 4th best in the european 2yo ratings, hes proven at the top level, like you say wasnt strongest of fields. had a saver on tullius just in case, the LINCOLN form has been working out very well. as has been said few times on here, there are always few lesser competitive group 1 races in the calendar, still not easy to win. hope this matter is settled
now, have answered you to the best of my knowledge. gl

Brigust, this was a thread I was already involved in before you chimed in with your usual pitch. I just hope for the readers' sakes that the books provide more insight than your racing related posts, or, at least, more positivity.

Nope, this afternoon's racing.

That doesn't surprise me that you have strict rules. I prefer to bet when I see an opportunity, or sometimes just when I'm in the mood to put in the effort.

Well, there are different scales of bets and the tastier stuff is always in the better races, for me. However, I don't see how it's possible to get a complete handle on all the better stuff if you completely ignore the lower grade races. Horses step up, and there has even been a Leicester nursery winner that won a Gp1 next time. There are also horses that have run at grade 1 courses stepping down, if you've got the information you might as well use it. As I said, it also sometimes depends on the mood.

find notebooking long lists of horses the best approach to finding winners, everyday when the emails arrive, already have list
of potential bets. running a list at the moment, 327 notebooks, so far have accumulated over 144 wins from the list, averaging
11/2 at SP'S for the winners. one year will be completed at the start of september 2014. then will start another long list for
next years flat season, hopefully will have few winners on the all weather through the winter, and start up again next summer.
took me 6 weeks worth of results to sort through to make my list, good thing is most of them wont race again till the next season.
the others that do race usually through winter do well on the all weather. my favourite horses are the improvers, they usually
improve 20 lbs or more through the season. always looking for these types. dont like notebooking winning favs, some make the list.

Very surprised to see Olympic Glory is being aimed at France on Sunday.

Looks that way, sint, but seems a bit soon to me.

Al Shaqab racing manager Harry Herbert confirmed Olympic Glory's likely participation in the Group 1 over an extended 1m1f.

He said: “At the moment I would say we are very likely to run him. It is an unusual move but he is a very tough and hardy horse. Looking at all the options and knowing that he is kicking and bucking, Richard said to me that we should seriously consider this.”

Obviously they think he can take another quick race, they might be right, but it wouldn't be the first time we heard this before a race then after a below par effort it's said the race came too soon. I don't believe he's improved from last year anyway so he's not a horse I wanted to follow after the Lockinge. I also think CDA isn't quite as good as he used to be (no surprise given his age) in spite of his good defeat of Treve. Just a watching race for me.

I can't say he won't improve, just that I didn't see any evidence of it on Saturday. I already rated him highly on his QE2 win so he didn't need to improve for the Lockinge. I don't think he needs to improve to beat CDA as an 8yo either, that's assuming he'll get the trip, I just prefer to follow 4yos that have shown improvement, if a horse has peaked there's a danger it will begin to regress.

thought OG hated Longchamp....