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I’m chasing a weekend ante-post hat trick following the advices of King Turgeon (advised 25/1) in the Grand Sefton and Burdett Road (advised 5/1) in the Greatwood Handicap Hurdle and have had a good look at this weekend's big handicap hurdle at Haydock the Betfair Stayers Handicap Hurdle run over three miles and 58 yards. The ground is currently good there but with an unsettled forecast of rain, sleet and snow can see the ground riding more on the soft side. Dan Skelton has left in three runners with the current favourite Doyen Spirit having to carry a 5lb penalty for his cosy enough victory at Cheltenham last weekend. The handicapper is likely to raise him more than the 5lb (we will know on Tuesday) and if he lines up has to be part of the staking plan as he’s totally unexposed at this trip. The Skeltons mentioned this race after he won at the weekend and he looks the one to beat. Much better value however is the James Owen trained One Big Bang. He has shown much improved form since joining Owen from Paul Tobin in Ireland winning over course and distance in the mud on his stable debut back in March. The six-year-old followed up in a three runner novice hurdle at Uttoxeter a week later before not being seen till the end of October when runner up to Hymac at Newton Abbot. Owen has spoken positively about the horse in a stable tour last month and although his future lies over fences he may creep in to the bottom of the handicap here and should be backed each way for a yard that did us a big favour at the weekend. He’s currently number 21 in a race where only 17 can run so it may be touch and go whether he gets in to the race but it’ll be money back if he is balloted out. Back him each way and Doyen Quest win only. ONE BIG BANG 1 point each way 20/1 (general) 1/4 1234 DOYEN QUEST 1 point win @ 7/2 BetMGM

Flightofthepheonix 4:45 Southwell (5/2, Bet365 boosted to 11/4). Mr Jol's syndicate horse, ran a cracker from a wide draw on debut, any improvement would make her hard to beat here. 1pt win 5/2 P/L: +5.65pts. Withdrawn at the start, maybe for the best from a betting point of view as the Gosden fav wazzed up.

7-0 wolves ravensbourne there’s bits and pieces of form to suggest he’s well handicapped last run at kempton poor draw and after a poor start made up quite a bit of ground the previous run to that was over a not suitable 7f then there’s a trainer switch first run for hilal kobeissi much better draw this evening 28/1 four places

AW selection Wolverhampton 8.00 LITTLE PETER

Result: Florencethemachine 1st. Won £24 November profit to date £9.68

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NH selection Exeter 2.30 BASILETTE 23/10 Ladbrokes

5 Fold AccumulatorRef: 619615492 5 Selections 462.12/1 5. Rumoursareflying - 4/1Winner - 15:40 Leicester 1. Saxon Raider - 3/1Winner - 16:15 Southwell 12. Zanzoun - 11/8Winner - 16:45 Southwell 1. Alafdhal - 2/1Winner - 19:00 Wolverhampton 1. Classic Encounter - 9/4Winner - 19:45 Southwell Stake£ 0.10 Potential Returns£ 46.31 TreblesRef: 619615495 5 Selections 5. Rumoursareflying - 4/1Winner - 15:40 Leicester 1. Saxon Raider - 3/1Winner - 16:15 Southwell 12. Zanzoun - 11/8Winner - 16:45 Southwell 1. Alafdhal - 2/1Winner - 19:00 Wolverhampton 1. Classic Encounter - 9/4Winner - 19:45 Southwell Stake£ 0.50 Potential Returns£ 20.85 Four FoldsRef: 619615498 5 Selections 5. Rumoursareflying - 4/1Winner - 15:40 Leicester 1. Saxon Raider - 3/1Winner - 16:15 Southwell 12. Zanzoun - 11/8Winner - 16:45 Southwell 1. Alafdhal - 2/1Winner - 19:00 Wolverhampton 1. Classic Encounter - 9/4Winner - 19:45 Southwell Stake£ 0.25 Potential Returns£ 35.01 Keep bets in betslip? Total Stake£ 0.85 Total Potential Returns£ 102.16

This Sunday’s Greatwood Handicap Hurdle at Cheltenham is always a race worth following and this year’s renewal, run over 2M 1/2F of the old course has attracted twenty at the six day declaration stage this lunchtime and is no exception. One horse who has been on my radar for the race for a while is James Owen’s Burdett Road who looks worth a decent each way bet. This will be his handicap debut over hurdles following two victories at Huntingdon and over course and distance at this meeting a year ago with a ten length second to the top class Sir Gino last January another top effort on his third and final start asa three-year-old hurdler. He has some excellent flat form when in the care of Michael Bell which including winning the Golden Gates Handicap at Royal Ascot on fast ground in June of 2023. The four-year-old appears to have taken his form to another level since joining Owen making all to win the listed 1M 4F Al Basti Equiworld , Dubai Godolphin Stakes at Newmarket in the mud by 8 1/2L from the progressive Military Academy who’s won a handicap since. His only outing since has come in the Group 2 Qipco Long Distnace Cup at Ascot on Champions Day when he was slowly away and could never get to the front trailing in sixth of the 9 runners beaten only 7 3/4L by champion stayer Kyprios. Despite the race not falling right for him that was a fair effort and he has an official handicap mark of 109 which in comparison to his rating over hurdles means he could be very well treated back over hurdles. I would love to see him get out in front in the manner he did at Newmarket when so impressive and with the drying ground unlikely to worry him looks excellent each way value. Current favourite Dysart Enos is unbeaten under rules in six races and looks the biggest danger although a close eye should be kept on the Emmet Mullins duo of Jacovec Cavern (last seen running ninth when favourite in the Cesarewitch) and Toll Stone. Mullins won this race in 2020 with The Shunter. Burdett Road has a lenient looking initial handicap mark and he looks worth a good each way bet. BURDETT ROAD 2 points each way @ 5/1 (general, 1/4 1234)

Todays runner - Leicester 2.40 Bobbigrey 10/1ew £2.00 365 Leicester 3.40 Ballybreeze 12/1ew 4pl £2.00 365 Exeter 2.30 Blacksamssenorita 15/8 £2.00 W Hill Southwell 4.45 Mother Mara 13/2ew £2.00 365 Southwell 6.45 Je Ne Sais Quoi 7/2 £2.00 365 Southwell 7.45 Lightningboltzoom 66/1ew £2.00 W Hill Wolverhampton 4.30 Sol Argent 8/1ew 4pl £2.00 365 Wolverhampton 6.30 Aberama Gold 13/2ew 4pl £2.00 365 Wolverhampton 7.30 Charencey 5/1ew 4pl £2.00 365 Wolverhampton 7.30 Eden Storm 20/1ew 4pl £2.00 365 Wolverhampton 8.00 Simiyann 7/2 £2.00 W Hill and betfair - Leicester 2.40 Bobbigrey 12.50 £1.00 £11.50 Leicester 3.40 Ballybreeze 13.50 £1.00 £12.50 Exeter 2.30 Blacksamssenorita 2.94 £1.00 £1.94 Southwell 4.45 Mother Mara 10.00 £1.00 £9.00 Southwell 6.45 Je Ne Sais Quoi 5.01 £1.00 £4.01 Southwell 7.45 Lightningboltzoom 100.00 £1.00 £99.00 Wolverhampton 4.30 Sol Argent 13.00 £1.00 £12.00 Wolverhampton 6.30 Aberama Gold 9.20 £1.00 £8.20 Wolverhampton 7.30 Charencey 7.80 £1.00 £6.80 Wolverhampton 7.30 Eden Storm 36.00 £1.00 £35.00 Wolverhampton 8.00 Simiyann 5.35 £1.00 £4.35

Lions and monty got me a win. But needed 37 pts for ravens game as had henry first td , meh. Waiting on 49ers for an acca. 6pm treble nowhere. 9pm treble td Robinson, mccaffrey and cook. Used some boosted bets for kc v bills Needing a cook, allen, hunt or worthy td.

Tristan Boyer is a good bet in the coming months, the guy is pretty massivelly underrated by the bookies

Morning 🤝🏽 Three ante post selections for me ahead of the weekend. If I've analysed correctly I think all three will significantly shorten and I've had 2pt wins on each. Will be plenty of NRs and I am pretty confident all three run so trying to take some serious value now 👍🏼 2pt wins on each selection 6pts staked in total Good luck if you follow 💷🏇🤝🏽

Good luck with the hat trick, fantastic tips

Lost Month +£202

Wol 700 Savannah Smiles 28/1 £10 ew bet365 4pl.

Lucky15Ref: 619603804 4 Selections 1. Telford - 4/1Winner - 16:30 Wolverhampton 2. Reputation - 11/2Winner - 17:45 Southwell 3. Aberama Gold - 6/1Winner - 18:30 Wolverhampton 1. Alafdhal - 9/4Winner - 19:00 Wolverhampton Stake£ 0.75 Potential Returns£ 76.45

Lucky15Ref: 619601422 4 Selections 5. Rumoursareflying - 4/1Winner - 15:40 Leicester 4. Holy Fire - 10/1Winner - 19:30 Wolverhampton 9. Alrazeen - 8/1Winner - 20:00 Wolverhampton 5. Zooks - 4/1Winner - 20:30 Wolverhampton Stake£ 0.75 Potential Returns£ 215.95

Lucky15Ref: 619599310 4 Selections 6. Bobby Socks - 11/2Winner - 15:40 Leicester 5. Laura's Breeze - 7/1Winner - 17:45 Southwell 1. True Promise - 10/3Winner - 18:30 Wolverhampton 1. La Boo - 18/1Winner - 19:15 Southwell Stake£ 0.75 Potential Returns£ 359.95

It's been a brutal weekend on the International footy front so you'll have to excuse an AT that at least pulled my nuts out of the fire in terms of the NFL betting! I noticed I had a "money back if loses" offer that I could use on the late game so went with Chase and Dobbins both to score a TD and Burrow >1.5 TD passes at 5.2. As it was I was looking at a loss with just Walker, Johnson and Downs scoring. I only just noticed the latter had scored so that feels like a bonus win as well! For the final game of the weekend I've gone with Lamb at 3.35 on the exchange. A bet for me at 9/4 with PP, I concur with the majority of the market that he should be under 2/1 rather than over. Had a BB freebie to use so gone with Houston win, Mixon and Collins TD and Stroud >1.5 TD passes at 5/1.

1 pt win Pearl Dubai 20/1 Bet365 4.45 Southwell

Lucky15Ref: 619594663 4 Selections 1. Layla Liz - 11/4Winner - 17:00 Wolverhampton 6. Liv Lucky - 12/1Winner - 19:15 Southwell 6. Simiyann - 10/3Winner - 20:00 Wolverhampton 8. Keen Interest - 18/1Winner - 20:30 Wolverhampton Stake£ 0.75 Potential Returns£ 354.62

Lucky15Ref: 619591003 4 Selections 6. On Key - 25/1Winner - 16:15 Southwell 7. Oasis Sunrise - 9/2Winner - 17:30 Wolverhampton 2. Naana's Sparkle - 9/1Winner - 18:00 Wolverhampton 11. Cancan In The Rain - 7/2Winner - 19:30 Wolverhampton Stake£ 0.75 Potential Returns£ 530.84

Lucky15Ref: 619589260 4 Selections 5. Cracking Man - 10/1Winner - 16:15 Southwell 5. Perfect Dark - 17/2Winner - 17:00 Wolverhampton 1. Je Ne Sais Quoi - 7/2Winner - 18:45 Southwell 7. Beauzon - 5/1Winner - 19:00 Wolverhampton Stake£ 0.75 Potential Returns£ 242.50

Lucky15Ref: 619585324 4 Selections 8. Northern Reel - 3/1Winner - 15:10 Leicester 2. Kodebreaker - 15/2Winner - 17:15 Southwell 2. Acklam Express - 6/1Winner - 18:45 Southwell 1. Classic Encounter - 9/4Winner - 19:45 Southwell Stake£ 0.75 Potential Returns£ 80.70

Lucky15Ref: 619582657 4 Selections 1. Another Day Out - 3/1Winner - 15:10 Leicester 2. Hock Eye The Noo - 7/1Winner - 16:30 Wolverhampton 5. Absolute Dream - 7/1Winner - 17:15 Southwell 9. Groovy Baby - 10/3Winner - 19:45 Southwell Stake£ 0.75 Potential Returns£ 107.95

1830 WOL

1830 OL ABERAMA GOLD 7/1 BET365

7-0 wolves ravensbourne 28/1 365

Wolverhampton 8.30 OCEAN RIDGE 19/4 £20 win LADBROKES

Yes and yes. I say I expect it to win, not saying you should. I've got a share in her so I want her to win every race she runs in 🤣

Exeter 13.30 £20 Florencethemachine @6/5 Betvictor

i am French and in 2012 we had a betting scandal in handball with the best club in France and its biggest superstar if anyone is curious : https://www.rfi.fr/en/sports/20150711-french-handball-player-found-guilty-match-fixing the way that the fixing was discovered is " The game attracted bets of 103,000 euros - off the charts for a sport that usually attracts just a few thousands euros. " since now betting is so popular the amounts would have to be much higher for it to be investigated , especially back then there was only one operator in France ( national state lottery)

3.10 Leic: Another Day Out @ 4/1 (Bet365)

1.40 Leic: Je Viens Du Large @ 14/1 E/W (WHill)

snooker with tennis lower level tournaments are the sport in which very average players can probably make more money by match fixing than prize money ; having relatives or childhood friends bet with their different family names online and go in many bookmaker shops to place bet without having to show your identity ; add to that that snooker is huge in China and their are tons of Asian betting platforms there if the players have the right Chinese contacts they can also bet on dozens of Asian platforms ( which are illegal on mainland China but you can still access them )

Navan 2.30 American Mike 9/4 £2.00 W Hill---lost 5/2f Fontwell 1.30 Hecouldbetheone 5/2 £2.00 365------lost 2nd 85/40f Cheltenham 3.30 Burdett Road 4/1ew 4pl £2.00 Fred-----won 1st 7/2 £4.80 Cheltenham 3.30 Jacovec Cavern 20/1ew 4pl £2.00 W Hill---lost 22/1 Won £4.80 Lost £6.00 Lost £1.20 New total lost £21.05 Betfair - Navan 2.30 American Mike 3.65 £1.00 £1.00 Fontwell 1.30 Hecouldbetheone 3.70 £1.00 £1.00 Cheltenham 3.30 Burdett Road 5.30 £1.00 £4.23 Cheltenham 3.30 Jacovec Cavern 32.00 £1.00 £1.00 Won £1.23 New total lost £9.00

Lucky 15 E/W Leicester 1:40 A moments madness 8/1 C 2:40 Bobbigrey 9/1 7th Exeter 3:30 Stans the man 5/1 1st Wolverhampton 7:00 Heartrate 11/1

Won, SP 8/11 7 from 13, LSP 19.28

Yea and that was the year he lost to Steve Davis at the Worlds. I always thought that was an 'interesting' result and no that's not a play on Davis's nickname

Following bits of it. Poland now the favourites but look short to me. Swiatek has been far from convincing and there's not much in the way of back up if she starts losing.

Matata 💥🤝🏽💷🏇 returns 14pts Does He Know ran well for the most part but faded turning for home. 4pts staked 14pts returned Overall = +10pts Running P/L = +53.8pts

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Good luck with Burdett Road, I think a few of us are on that one today

Altrincham v Southend The home side have only lost once at home so far this season although they have drawn half of their 8 home games and Southend have drawn half of their 8 away games so the draw is a slight concern, but I do think Altrincham offer value given Southend are favs for this. I took them on last week in a bizarre game of football and got lucky that it was Yeovil who got the goal, but the fact is Southend have been struggling in front of goal. In their last 10 league games they have scored 11 goals, but you have to bare in mind that 4 of those came in one game against Solihull. Altrincham have had little issue scoring goals and have netted in 7 of their last games and the only time they didn't was in their only lost in that spell against Braintree. Also the only time they haven't scored at home was the one loss against Eastleigh. A bit like last week I think Southend are being over-rated by the bookies and Altrincham rate a decent value bet for me. Woking v Boston Yes I am opposing Woking again! Boston were decent last week against Dagenham and probably should have won so whilst it has been a long time since they have won the fact they have drawn their last two games gives me hope they could get that vital win at a Woking side who have not won for 9 games themselves. They have only lost 3 of their 8 games at home, but they have had a bit of good fortune along the way. Boston have performed better on the road and their 3 defeats were at Southend (at the start of the season when they were really struggling), Gateshead and Barnet. They have played 7 away games and got 8 points which is only one fewer than Barnet and they have played 1 more game. I just don't think there is quite as big a difference between the two sides as the betting suggests and will thus Boston offer some value. Blyth Spartans v Matlock Matlock did us a good turn last week coming from behind with 10 men to win 3-2 and I think they can win again here. I will say that Blyth weren't that bad last week in their 2nd game since being taken over so there are signs of improvement, but Matlock are one of the form sides in the division and I think at this stage they certainly should be too strong for their hosts. Marlow v Wimborne I'm not surprised the odds against on the away side has been taken as I'm not sure any side should be odds against to beat Marlow. The slight concern is Wimborne have only won once away from home, but we are due a result opposing Marlow given the other two times they managed to get a 2-2 draw. They are a dreadful side and hopefully Wimborne can prove too strong. Bognor Regis v Carshalton The home side did beat Bowers last week which was annoying for us, but they were then well beaten by Lewes on Tuesday night and Carshalton look a fair price to beat them here. They beat Billericay 4-3 last Saturday which is clearly a very good result and their only 2 defeats in their last 8 leagues games have come against the in form Canvey Island and the very good Wingate & Finchley. For me they should be clear favs for this. Whitehawk v Wingate & Finchley Speaking of Wingate I am backing them as well to continue their superb run of form. They have won 6 of their last 7 league games and the only defeat was at Dulwich when the home side scored a 97th minute winner. Whitehawk are pretty poor this season and have picked up just 2 points in their last 7 games. Odds against looks a big price for me about an away win. Prices from Friday 9am Altrincham 1pt @ 9/5 with Bet365, Paddy Power, Betfair, William Hill and Betfred (take up to 6/4) Boston 1pt @ 11/4 with Paddy Power and Betfair (take up to 11/5) Matlock 2pts @ 11/8 with Betfred (take up to Evs) Wimborne 1pt @ Evs with Betfred and Bet365 (take up to 8/11) Carshalton 1pt @ 6/4 with Betfred (take up to 5/4) Wingate & Finchley 2pts @ 13/10 with Betfred (take up to 5/6)

Ante Post Update... I put up 4 horses Ante Post and this is the current state of play... Stumptown - NR Hamsiyann - 14/1 into 5/2 fav Matata - 6/1 into 13/8 fav Does He Know - 7/1 into 9/2 fav Now, still plenty of time for those odds to change but happy to get some nice value on 3/4. Surprised Stumptown was pulled and didn't run today but can't get them all right.

Hope some followed, 14s into 9/2 💥🤝🏽

This is now 7s

Annoyingly and surprisingly, Stumptown is a NR 🤯🤦🏻‍♂️. Going to add one more selection for a different race which I like A LOT! 2pts e/w (4pts total) paying 4 places @ 14/1...

Finished 2nd beaten a short head. Excellent run on her debut and very much looking forward to a good future. Was at work screaming at my phone, lucky no bosses were about lol.