^ at least one

This comp has reminded me why I gave up trying to back winners and just lay now.
Hopefully I can make some sort of contribution in the next round, good luck in the 5.15

boommmmm Laffi winst 20/1 and PPP places VWD DD and Moose

Fantastic

Great picking guys !

Thanks all. It's nice to land on the right one, if only it happened a bit more often. The horse is very game, and he deserved that win. Moose, I had no idea you had posted. It takes a few minutes for me to do the write-up.

cufmos, stay positive, nobody would have expected Sober Glory to run like that.

Clearly we are in a decent position, but it would be nice get something from our last two selections. Some teams have quite a lot of shots to fire, and might just decide to go big.   

Good luck to those still to post.

Scorpion Rising 1.55 Aintree

5pts ew

still no pick from MF  if nothing made by 2.30pm we will have to play a wild card imvho

any views team

ok still nothing, so will go for almaty ew 17.40 yarmouth as wild card unless anyone else has a view

great stuff mf .

thanks - good luck m8

almaty wins

yes vwd everyone great result and takes us to 1 point off the top of table

dd is correct if we cd get our selections in earlyish if on the saturday that wd help enormously

enjoy th rest of the weekend guys and gals

Thai Basil

Oh well better luck next week

EW  Lightonthewing 16.17  Newton Abbot

Lirion 14.55 Ayr 10 points win

GL

Fifth Column 3.10 Newbury

5pts ew

just DD and Chavman to go

Really disappointing to be going into Saturday playing catch-up again. The only saving grace is that the other teams haven't really fired any big shots. That will happen at some stage, and if we carry as we are then we are going to be fighting out for the bottom places, not the top. You can only have a realistic chance if everyone is contributing. At the moment that isn't happening. Do we actually want to win? 

I got lucky twice last week with the Aintree winner that was subsequently disqualified, and then a nice winner on Sunday, only because I chose to do my flat catch-up on that morning. Chances are that won't happen again, at least not for a while.

I had a couple of ante-post bets on Scottish Champion Hurdle. At the moment that looks a decent position, four places at much bigger odds. Both have to step up on what they have previously done, and if Tutti Quanti repeats Newbury, he is going to be very difficult to beat. Was that the freak result of the season? Anyway, those two are now too short, as is Park Princess who was available at 6/4 last night. I was tempted to put up Affinitive again, but was concerned about the softer ground and the booking of Powell. I have risked him myself, but couldn't put him up on here. He is very weak in the market. So that left me with:-

4.48 Ayr Sea Tempest EW

Looks the part, and has some decent horses in the family. Was switched on for his debut, but unfortunately the jock wasn't. He should have won. I think that was an above average race for the track. As a 4yo, he gets a few pounds off most of his rivals. A better ride, and he should at least be in the mix. Fingers crossed.

Good luck today. Hopefully, we can at least get something on the board.

Sea Tempest taken out so replaced:-

5.17 Bangor Affinitive EW

Ground at least looks as if it will be no excuse.

wd chavman and DD Both get places.

Unlucky thee DD i thought it was going to hold on . Great call again m8 vwd

Again, nobody has smashed it in the first week, and consequently, although we are bottom, it's still all to play for. Had Affinitive actually won, we would be top. We had a bit of luck today, but at least we got three out of four scores. If we are to move up we need to up that ratio, and convert a few places into winners. It is worth remembering 100 points a week is less than a 1/2 winner for each player.