LeMale

Always best to give it time to reflect when angry and I have touched on this before... so here's a reflection on racing. Lots has been said on here this week about cheating, non triers etc call it what you will but here is a bigger problem for me and the 5:45 at Sandown Sunday is a perfect example of what I am saying.
You can have all the systems in the world to aid your selecting, you can have all the ratings in the world to aid them but they all go out the window when you can't rate jockey stupidity which seems to be prevalent in this country more than others eg France and Ireland. Very few of our jockeys have a plan B let alone a plan C, oh they all look very good when getting it right but you watch that race from yesterday and you will see what I mean bear in mind not much was coming from the back at Sandown so they must have known by race five that the place not to be was in rear. From the off Kingscote amongst others but Kingscote in particular came from the stalls all the way over to the rail to sit in last place, from there he went nowhere never even thought about it when even an amateur would have noted the slow pace, even after two three furlongs he never did anything meaning the horse had no chance from that position there were others did the same in the race what did they think? That the front lot would just open up and go backwards? Read the write ups, waiting for room, waiting for room, waiting for room, the odd jockey tried to come round but by the time they made their minds up the winner was trundling along and just ran over the line to win. So all the ratings and or systems and even form take a backseat to the stupidity of jockeys.
 
One thing I would like to add here one jockey that rarely made a mistake was/is Tom Quealy Henry Cecil knew as much about jockeys and racing than anyone in the world and would never employ an idiot to ride his horses but seemingly most trainers would rather use “B” jockeys than Quealy.
 
Yes I backed Ocotango (Kingscote) in the race in question so declare if I had of written this last night I would have been accused rightly so of talking through my pocket. If you backed Orbaan, Metal Merchant, or Ocatango and to a lesser extent a few others you was robbed.

If there’s a festival I guess we might as well do one of these!
 

Same rigmarole as last time I think.
One post every day containing that day’s Lucky 15 One post after the bet has been settled confirming any returns. Even if there’s no return, confirmation would be appreciated. Please don’t update via edits as I’d have to trawl back through the thread. Updates by the end of the day would be appreciated but I’ll allow them up to noon the next day. Any updates after that will be settled as nil return with no adjustment regardless of the actual return! In terms of the general rules I’d propose sticking with what we’ve had previously:
 
One lucky15 per day settled to 20p (either 20p win or 10p ew).
No cash out allowed for comp purposes.
Preferably bets would be real and not just paper picks, hence screenshots preferred.
Kudos and bragging rights will be the only prize.
“Wind ups allowed. Sensitive sorts need not apply.”

5.15 Sandown Graignes 8/1 WH
All the best.

Southwell 4.40 Madame Christine e/w (22/1 wh)

Two Tribes
1545 hrs Sand
6/1 general

545s bluelight bay
ew 33/1 bet365

Sandown  5.45. Bluelight Bay  e/w 16/1  365

Day 31 -£59.90

Yep "the joys of this bet" cheap and cheerful with occasionally a lot of excitement thrown in.

£22.90 back from the double on the two "S-S" horses. Gone went and finished second in the last leg to deny me the treble, but beaten by 4 lengths so I can't grumble too much.
My ROI from the 12 L15s so far is 126.56% (£45.56 profit from the £36 outlay). You'd be £50 up if you'd had a quid on all of my 43 runners with an ROI of 116.3%. Just be thankful I don't enter the naps competition! 
I assume it goes without saying but I wouldn't recommend following my selections just yet. We'd have to be living in a parallel universe for me to be getting those sort of returns from horses in the long run. All good fun though so belated thanks to @Zilzalian for being the preacher man when it comes to the joys of this bet!

1715 Newbury - Maximilian Caesar @ 50-1 ew Bet365 

2.35 Newmarket
Robbo
28/1 ew Bet365

6.40 Bath  Sugar Hill Babe  ( win only )  18/1 William Hill

At least he's had a winner !
I might change my strategy for next month, I'm sure I'll get a long odds winner at some stage but it's not much fun

Yea like that’s gonna help me!!!

Not for long got a 100/1 in me next few days 😂watch out @Carole-dawney after you might have to lend her my form book 

You ok down there @LEE-GRAYS?

5th time of trying but a small win.

Moondial @ 12Epsom Downs 16:45 -bv

240 newb Kings Gambit 40/1 bet365

All paying extra places EW L-15 
1515 R - Raatea 
1640 N - Croeso Cymraeg 
1710 C - Mads Black Eights 
1715 N - Maximilian Caesar 

All paying extra places EW L-15 
1515 R - Raatea 
1640 N - Croeso Cymraeg 
1710 C - Mads Black Eights 
1715 N - Maximilian Caesar 

I was happy to be on the first big price winner and had that in three L-15's (and should have had it as my nap but changed my mind last minute) but it was actually my worst RL meeting for winners/placed(ew) with just the first two races that i found my two winners and just one other place. A couple of my picks had traffic problems/boxed in and a couple were just beaten by better horses on the day and the fact that i had those winners in my top 2/3 selections means i felt fine with the losses because i was close enough to finding them and i felt my picks all ran their race. 
Anyway, i hope i have proved my point about these meetings NOT having handicap cutting runners in them, but i suppose that just means if there are none of them in these races and all are trying their best, it can still make it difficult to find which one of the buggers is going to win! But hey-ho, that's horse racing! 

6.30 Windsor pjanoo 18/1 e/w bet365