Well done Andrew.

SDLC,tell the truth or do not bother?

Good morning Laurie,

Hope you are enjoying life where you are (at least for now).

As for MCD, i'm not a regular by any means, once a week, maybe not that often, but i did go to the one in Paris a couple of consecutive days during Arc weekend (after a hotel breakfast i might add) as they sell Pancakes and Maple Syrup. The Pancakes are not that good to be honest (closer to thermoplastic) but the location is good, sitting on the Champs Elysees and watching the world go by. I was joking about my daughter eating at MCD, as you mentioned, she wouldn't get much for 4+ euros (the profit on Brasil) but she didn't bet anyway. She has no idea about betting odds and thought if she bet Brasil to win, it would pay for her Brasilian meal (fat chance).

I was curious about MCD cost comparison in European cities, here is a link. München down in 47th place that surprised me.

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/region_prices_by_city?itemId=3®ion=150&displayCurrency=EUR

Good luck

Laurie, currywurst is correct, very popular in the DLR canteen (when the queues are longest)

The dark sausages are OK, but not the White.

Good afternoon Guys,

A few decent race meetings over the next 3 days starting with a graded card at Newbury this afternoon and several potential 2023 Cheltenham runners including Champ who will be trying to win his 5th race at the course in 6 runs. I will not be backing this one, or anything at the meeting, interesting though it is, instead i've layed one at Doncaster, Everyday Champagne (2.55). Up in trip to 24f this afternoon, but oddly enough has an entry over 20.5f on Tuesday. Did win over hurdles at Hexham on his penultimate run, but the form is woeful and his run LTO didn't show any improvement. Making his chase debut and the fences here are a decent test for a novice. It looks a wide open, tricky race and anyone of 5 can win. I did notice Nick Gifford sends one up from Findon, a fair journey.

Good luck and have a nice Friday all.

Laurie



If Constitution Hill doesn't win tomorrow i will be eating at MCD for the rest of 2022

Think Henderson was raving about a new improved Champ,today will be interesting.
2.55 non of the horses here have won or placed second over fences,I thought My Bad Lucy was an interesting runner.

I think the reference to a white sausage was to weisswurst -a Munich speciality that is not supposed to be served after noon .

Correct manoleeds.

Oh yes they have you multiple username dipstick.

Give it a rest Cali ffs. You should get yourself along to the Tingle and meet the man. And I guarantee it would be a fantastic improvement in your life, and life is too short as it is.

Closer to Slough than Capitana Brig!!

Recipe:

To create authentic German currywurst

Look for good quality, fine grind German sausage, preferably boiled. Definitely not cured and if smoked – very, very lightly.

The following options are relatively easy to find.

finely ground, pre-cooked Bavarian bratwurst (like this one we used to make Brats in Beer Sauce) or Weisswurst
Bockwurst
Oberländer/Wollwurst
Knockwurst (originally called Knackwurst in Germany) – it has a fine grind, appropriate snappiness and thickness

Give it a rest Cali ffs. You should get yourself along to the Tingle and meet the man. And I guarantee it would be a fantastic improvement in your life, and life is too short as it is.


I think you will find CagG just loves the responces Brig, All the attention seekers seem to end up on here mainly because it gets a lot of views, most have him blocked.

For all his faults I never had him down as a Sausage Expert.

Good chilly 3c morning Guys,

My only selection yesterday, a lay of Everyday Champagne (7/4f) wasn't a cause for celebration as he won, although what the form amounts to is open to question as 8 fences were omitted due to low sun. Before they entered the home straight he was back in 3rd place and i thought we were OK, but to be fair, he did pull out a little extra on the long run-in (bypassing 4 fences). Would he have won with all fences to be jumped, difficult to say of course, but it's not important anyway, it was a losing bet, end of.

My evening didn't improve as i braved heavy rain and went to Kennedys Sportsbar in the city centre to watch England v USA on screen, a worse decision than my lay selection, albeit no financial impact. What an abysmal performance from a team trading around 8/1 to win the world cup outright. I guess if there is a positive we didn't lose and qualification to the next stage is a formality, but listening to Southgate and Kane during post-match interviews is cringeworthy (it was always going to be a difficult game etc) how many goals would Brasil or Spain get against an 'average' side aka USA. Rant over.

On to this afternoon and regular readers know i'm a massive fan of Constitution Hill and have been since i saw him run at Sandown on debut lst season. I didn't back him then, but in both runs since. To save typing, i posted the below on another thread earlier.

Only one runner to beat in my opinion and the only possible negative is a tactical/messy pace, but i doubt this will occur anyway. 5 runners, but forget the outsider who can't win on form. Tommy's Oscar and Not So Sleepy have never won a Grade 1 outright, have it all to do on ratings and are probably not good enough anyway, leaving a stablemate to beat and in match bet you would be lucky to get 1/5. You could argue the Cheltenham Supreme field fell apart off a fast pace, but he was the winner from a long way out and the time/sectionals were good. Newcastle is basically flat as opposed to Sandown and Cheltenham and a shorter run-in than the latter, but by the time they jump the final flight he will be in front. Epatante was cruising before the 2nd last in this race last season, but didn't find a great deal on the run-in, possibly due to fitness and the latter has to be considered this afternoon.

Odds of 1.33 earlier are much better than i envisaged, but good things don't always win as we saw with Baaeed recently and nothing surprises me in racing.

Is CH really 22L (eased up) better than Jonbon, only time will tell, but if he is and wins impressively this afternoon and again during the festive season, he's going to be very short odds to win in March, in fact, PP will probably offering odds on him winning the boat race.

More later, as i want to watch The Opening Show and hope the lovely Adele is on.

Good luck and have a nice Saturday all.

Laurie

Many thanks for the kinds words, i can speak on behalf of all of us that met you at Ascot, it was a nice afternoon and at least Happysandwich didn't kick off when Baaeed lost.

Good afternoon Guys,

My only bets so far are in the Fighting Fifth, but i often put a selection up in the major handicaps at decent odds and i have a tentative W/4TBP for the Coral Gold Cup (Hennessy) in 3.05 Newbury.

Mind you, my record in these typical races is a bookies benefit, although i put up Botox Has in the NH big race comp last week (won @ 17/2) but didn't on here as i was travelling in Sweden (sods law).

My selection is the Neil Mulholland trained Lord Accord. A consistent chaser (only twice out of the placings in 8 runs) winner of a class 2 race over 25f at Cheltenham in his penultimate run and ran well in 2nd behind Frodon in the Badger Chase LTO (would have finished closer but for a mistake) albeit receiving plenty of weight. Runs off the same mark of 136, but is actually 3 lb in on his revised rating. Of course these large field handicaps are often difficult to find the winner, but he's in with a shout and current odds of around 17 are fair enough.

Good luck and have a nice Saturday all.

Lampus

Thank you and greetings to the best county in GB

Ashleigh

Thanks, i've always liked the horse and was reasonably confident today; once Nico injected a bit of pace, the race was as good as over. Of course there are tougher tasks ahead, but in my opinion he will not be beaten this season.

Honeysuckle is a wonderful mare, but i would be all over a match bet with CH to beat her, even with her allowance.

Sorry to correct you but it runs in the 2.30 at Catterick and she is a mare.

In all fairness - gelding does look the way forward with her imo

Not much to see....