MCLARKE

Southwell 6.45
CHOLA EMPIRE
£20 win BSP

AW selection
Dundalk 8.30
BELIEVE IN SILENCE

You had already posted a nap earlier !

🙄 er came 4th in a 8 runner race!.....so only 3 places isnt it?......  behind my winning nap 👍

3.53 Saint Cloud - JULIETTE BANBOU 7/1 eway bet365 .5th , dual purpose type who'd finished 4th in Group 1 over this trip at Longchamp earlier in career but it really was slow motion stuff at Saints Cloud today .
Talking bet365 , bought Craven tickets whilst Cheltenham was on , £17 Grandstand & Paddock , just logged into account & bet365 are offering £7 off with discount code , grrrr 😠 
£10 for two Group 3 races on day 2 good value , £7 a pint of Guinness won't be though .

Southwell 6.45 Chola Empire 

+£6
+£84
day 88

Thanks for the update. Best wishes to him.

Thanks for the update. Best wishes to him.

He's a bit under the weather unfortunately.  I'm hoping he has a speedy recovery 🫰

Won. BSP 6.11.
64 from 242, LSP 59.45.

AW selection
Newcastle 7.00
RATAFIA

4.05 Hunt: Paddy in the Caddy @ 11/1 E/W (Bet365)

That horse ran out petrol, nothing left, like the rest of the field pulled before third last, noway that would make it to finish imo, he'll get his riding fee but don't receive any prize money.

winning double - today +24.69
month + 378.55

What has happened to Ralphie? Hope all is well.

AW selection
Newcastle 7.00
RATAFIA

Still doing OK with BETMGM, they did restrict some of my bets at Cheltenham but still able to bet to a reasonable stake.

Some sad news over the weekend that popular sprinter Highfield Princess had to be put down after an accident in her stable
Believed by some to be the most improved horse ever ...... she started off in class 6 handicaps and worked her way through the ranks to win four group one races including an Abbeye and a Nunthorpe
Reminiscent of another great sprint mare that older readers will remember .... Lochsong, who trod a similar path
Here's Highfield Princess winning the Nunthorpe in 2022 .......
 

So another account bites the dust, not that it's any great loss in terms of the firm's willingness to offer a decent price of accept a modest stake. I won't name the firm but let's say they're one of those who will only allow you to bet way less than you would like to bet.
Not a big fan of their chosen MO; rather than tell me what was happening I had to work it out for myself as I just got a "stake too high" message all the way down to 50p (previously they were telling me the max stake allowed). I queried it with them (mainly in terms of getting my funds back as my card had expired) and it wasn't all bad news; "we are pleased to inform you that you are still able to wager on all of our Casino products without restriction". 
Anyway, funds returned quickly enough via the suggested bank transfer method so we move on. 

I can see the point more in knocking out the slow races. I guess the faster races are probably run at a truer pace whereas the slower races might just be dawdling or excessive holding up or no-one wants to front run and therefore more likely to produce false times or times that reflect something other than the conditions

I once used option 2, then i thought hmm sometimes there are 7 races 8 and even 9 so what i did was use just 5 races i knocked off the fastest and slowest (if only 6 races i took out the extreme)

I've tried all those in the past ..... with the exception of number 5 (but I can see the point of it)
In some ways I don't think it matters as long as you use the same method consistently. Where I have changed tends to be at the start of a new AW winter season where I decide to do something different this time round
At the moment I'm happy with my method of only using handicaps. I'm using RP Standard Times which measure something like 'a rating that a 100 rated horse carrying 9 stone should achieve over a mile on good ground'
As you look at a handicap race you can quickly see what a horse carrying 9 stone would be rated. Let's say it's 88....... you'd expect it run 12 lbs or 4 lengths slower than RP Standard. If it runs 18lbs or 6 lengths slower then the going allowance for that race is 'Slow 6lbs or Slow 2 lengths' ........ I use lengths
then you can average out the going allowances for the qualifying races or strike out the fastest and slowest etc to get your average for the meeting ....... which you can then apply to all the races
so I think my method takes account of the class of horses running at the meeting
 

AW selection
Newcastle 7.00
RATAFIA