Great call Alan,very well done.

Well done Anorak, looked all over the winner 2 out, but the O'Brien horse stayed on better.

Seems the Irish did just make up the numbers, but the market doesn't care which one beats the lay!

Well done Trusty and Alan
Two nice lays for the best thread on here

Good evening Guys,

VWD Alan and Trusty with the lay selections, both shorties as well, hope you made a few bob. As for the owner of this thread, he couldn't tip muck out of a barrow at the moment. Both selections well backed, both runner-up.

Never mind, wasn't it Magaret Thatcher that said "where there is despair, there is hope" (something like that anyway)


Roll on the DRF and Cheltenham (twice).

Currently bored at Schiphol airport and still 90 minutes wait for my flight to Linköping.

Thanks for the posts and have a nice evening all.

Good morning Guys from Linköping, the best small city in Sweden.

A biased opinion of course, but valid all the same. It's quite mild here considering time of the year, no snow and warmer than München with a forecast of +6c this afternoon.

A nice afternoon/evening with friends yesterday so i didn't see so much racing. A losing bet on Energumene (backed the previous evening at 1.6) wasn't a good start, but i did recover to finish ahead on the day, albeit an insignificant amount, not enough for the afternoon bar bill anyway. Speaking of which, i had to pay for 2, as a local Swedish mate supports WBA and they lost 3-0 to my team Bristol City in the FA cup. Normally the loser would pay in such circumstances, but we do things differently up here.

Energumene wasn't fluent at times and although he had won at Cheltenham it was on the old course; i thought he was beaten before he made a hash of the last. WPM was gracious in defeat, but made a post race comment about White colour of the take-off boards (used to be Orange).

I can't comment on this (maybe there is something in it, who knows) but in commercial aircraft flight compartments and military fighter cockpits, visual displays and any form of indication (warning signs etc) have to comply with certain colours for pilot vision (human factors certification compliance).

I was surprised Edwardstone didn't run on when he looked all over the winner at the last even though Editeur Du Gite is useful, but he did use energy coming from way off the pace. It will be interesting in March as the Champion Chase distance is shorter, and on the new course.

I was pleased to see Comfort Zone win another grade 2 in the Cheltenham opener as he reinforced my opinion of the filly Lozziemouth (readers know i'm a fan) who beat him over 6L (receiving 7lb) in early December. Roll on the DRF next Saturday and the Triumph.

Good racing yesterday, specially at Cheltenham and i thought Nobel Ye@ts ran a decent trial for the Gold-Cup after looking well beaten 4 out. I think he's better than the average GN winner and could go well in March at almost double figure odds on here.

We are used to seeing the Irish contingent come over and take our major races, but now the French have the audacity to do the same, Gold Tweet looking good winning the Cleeve hurdle. It's been 20 years since Baracouda won the stayers for the 2nd time, and if GT is supplemented for the race, would have to be considered.

My recent tipping would make the legend (or should that be bell end) known as Gaze look good, but we all have losing spells at times. I went through the cards earlier, but there wasn't anything that jumped off the page really. One i think has a chance is Onestepatatime (3.45 Sedgefield). Lightly raced over fences (4 runs) winning over CD, turning around a previous 11L defeat by Sir Apollo by almost the same margin (8 lb better off). Improving and would have won more easily but for a bad mistake at the 2nd last. Raised 4 lb to a mark of 89 that looks very winnable. Currently around odds of 5 and evens the 3/TBP to cover the stake.

I doubt i will be able to see the race as i return to Germany later and my first flight to München is 17.35 so i will be on my way to (or at) Linköping City airport (10 mins taxi ride away). A short weekend trip, but enjoyable all the same.

Good luck and have a nice Sunday all.

Well done with the Nap Andrew, mainly thanks by a never say die ride by Quinlan, must have have gone big i/r when inmitially losing the lead.

Nice one Andrew. I`ll fight to tha death this month

Hi Andrew

The Mrs makes holiday decisions, i know she`s always fancied Sweden, she watches
all the Scandi noir stuff on Netflix I`ll keep you posted and should we go
definitely meet if convenient for both.

Gone for Ramz 8.00, last run was promising for new trainer and up in trip tonight, around 40`s on here.

Good luck on the final day

Morning Trusty,

I've been looking at that race as well. It's interesting to consider the course records of the jockeys on the four main contenders. These are their career numbers for hurdles races at Wincanton:

Cobden  58/159    Jacob  43/254   Dingle  8/51   Heskin  1/16

Agree about the weak form of his maiden win and even at Chepstow, he'd have only been 6th but for the faller at the last, finished behind a 66/1 shot and beat three that were 20/1, 50/1 and 66/1. So overall, not much encouragement to back him at that price!

I prefer Celtic Art, who led home three that were miles clear of a big field over C+D, second has won since - he'd be half his current price if he was trained by Nicholls or Henderson.

Good afternoon Guys,

Alan/Trusty

Many thanks and good luck with the selections.

An early start this morning, i had to take receipt of a new washing machine and 2 burly Hermes guys arrived at 06.50 ! To make it worse, it was too big (the apartment owner arranged it). Anyway i digress, although i did pick out a couple of lays over breakfast, both at Fakenham, Tortula (1.30) and Dondiam (2.10) but unfortunately both have drifted to outside the odds limit. Varying reasons including the latter has only beaten 8 horses home in 6 races, although i do like the trainer. Maybe i can find an alternative, but i wasn't overly enamoured with the cards today.

Off to Leopardstown on Saturday (only for the day) but any thoughts of getting a reasonable odds-on price for Lossiemouth in the Juvenile are out of the window looking at the declarations (Blood Destiny a NR). Unbelievably (or perhaps not so) WPM has 6 of the 8 entries. It looks like a benefit weekend for the trainer, as it was last year.

Shane

If you visit the Vasa, there's a Viking museum next door, and if your good lady wife is an Abba fan, a short walk to their museum (i was back in time, but never been in).

Good luck and have a nice Thursday all.

ANDREW

WD Alan/Trusty with the lay and a 100/30 winner

Torula and Dondium both beaten, sadly the former was fatally injured

In fact, I didn't bet until the last ten minutes before the race and averaged 5.39 on here - the BF SP was 5.07. The bookies at Wincanton were giving nothing away in that race, as Trusty's lay was returned at 7/4, but was trading on here at 3.8 as they lined up, having been around 2.5 when he posted.

Andrew,

I believe Torula had a heart attack as they were pulling up after the race. It was caught briefly by the cameras and seen live on RTV, much to the horror of the studio presenter.

with crossed fingers that WPM has a good afternoon.



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Oh he will alright,sometimes the problem is which one of his wins.....

Evening Trusty,

Main problem for Gerri Colmbe is that he'll have to go a lot faster tomorrow than he's ever done before, as his unbeaten record has been achieved in races which have all been run at least 30 seconds slower than standard. The recent Grade 1 success was run 42 secs over standard - I reckon they'll be about 30 secs quicker than that at Sandown on drying ground. Even assuming he can go that fast, will his jumping hold up under that pressure?

So I'm with you, he's a solid lay in the conditions.

fo tobymugs ya sillleekkkhuunnt.

gerri was impressive at limerick..time irrelevant as ev race was very slow..a few well over a minute slow.

Good  Morning ANDREW   have a nice day

Good Luck 

Have you not gone yet?