thehappysnapper

first winner for the blog and its first follower, feels like Christmas and Birthday coming at once.

So would offically like to take this opportunity to welcome pete and pleased to hear you got involved in yesterdays great gamble on holiday reading.

It was a poor heat luckily for us because i dont think we had great deal more to offer and wouldnt have thought he will be one to follow next time. For the sake of my records i ended up with 1/2 a place and 3/1 win giving me a tidy profit of 10pts after the boys in the reduction factor department had their pound of flesh.

I had a feeling i had studied the racing too long when came up with Sleep Dance espeically as when selecting the non runner Russian Affair earlier in the day she didnt really feature in my thoughts. In theory it worked out quite nicely for her from the draw she got the ideal sit behind a strong pace which towed her into the last couple of furlongs with ease. At this point i actually thought we were travelling was well as any and probably better than the other held up horse and eventual winner. But once coming off the bridle she showed her true colours and quickly dropped out of contention. I highly doubt she will ever win a race and wouldnt suggest shes one to follow. I recorded a bet of 5pts place at 9/4 and 2 win at 20/1 which was actually more than i meant to record as only had 4 by 1 but for the sake of the blog's record i will stick with 5 by 2 giving me hefty loss of 7pts.

Much higher quality racing at kempton, yarmouth and sandown ahead of us which means they will no doubt be competitive affairs but one or two runners do take my eye at first glance.

I'll be back....


Folkestone 2.50 Holiday Reading 1st @ 3/1 (+10pts)
Folkestone 3.20 Sleep Dance upl @ 12/1 (-7pts)
Folkestone 3.20 Russian Affair NR
Previous P/L (+14pts)

Running total +17pts