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10p ew

10p ew

Sorry I've had to sit this weeks out as not in the uk and geo locked out of my accounts. Back with a bang next week - 4 winners probably (although one place more likely)

Sorry I've had to sit this weeks out as not in the uk and geo locked out of my accounts. Back with a bang next week - 4 winners probably (although one place more likely)

Sorry I've had to sit this weeks out as not in the uk and geo locked out of my accounts. Back with a bang next week - 4 winners probably (although one place more likely)

Go big or go home. 10p each way

86p return - perfectly reflects a poor November for me

Go big or go home. 10p each way

Go big or go home. 10p each way

For the sake of £3 I'll put an actual bet on. There's no edge for me but I might hit lucky.
 

All very well Micheal and i do not dispute what you are saying but you or someone said how come i can still get a bet on with mainstream bookies? How long do you think i would last doing what you suggested? Add to that this has been my best year in ten, i got lucky with half a dozen Lucky15's  over or around £1000 and another half a dozen that returned around £400-£800 as you have realised that is quite rare and you need good ammunition to achieve that. Remember once i said that my worse year i lost a small amount and the reason for that was i got lazy through losing my enthusiasm? (resurrected when i joined this site to a good degree) The last few months i have just been going through the motions and that is a big problem. I am 65 now and have other interests like fishing, painting and writing and i am also building a trainset in my loft, i also have a workshop in my garage which i like to potter about in not to mention two more new Grandkids. I enjoy this site and will continue to participate in the comps and the occasional piss take of the unsensitive sorts and i am quite happy to answer any questions from anyone if they need an opinion or advice.

@Zilzalian sounds like you are making a decision which is right for you. I for one applaud it and wish you all the best.
I hope you still grace the forum on a regular basis to deliver in equal quantities your sage advice and piss taking. If not you will leave a “grumpy old git” sized hole. 😜

@Zilzalian sounds like you are making a decision which is right for you. I for one applaud it and wish you all the best.
I hope you still grace the forum on a regular basis to deliver in equal quantities your sage advice and piss taking. If not you will leave a “grumpy old git” sized hole. 😜

@Zilzalian sounds like you are making a decision which is right for you. I for one applaud it and wish you all the best.
I hope you still grace the forum on a regular basis to deliver in equal quantities your sage advice and piss taking. If not you will leave a “grumpy old git” sized hole. 😜

@Zilzalian sounds like you are making a decision which is right for you. I for one applaud it and wish you all the best.
I hope you still grace the forum on a regular basis to deliver in equal quantities your sage advice and piss taking. If not you will leave a “grumpy old git” sized hole. 😜

Just like the back door flush - all straight down the pan but a nasty smell is left lingering - Cranberries playing in the background.
No return.

Just like the back door flush - all straight down the pan but a nasty smell is left lingering - Cranberries playing in the background.
No return.

10p ew.
The less said about the last selection the better ...

10p ew.
The less said about the last selection the better ...

11.15 Lingfield  MYKONOS ST JOHN
1pt win 16/1 Bet365

Well I have just finished my accounts for 2022-23 (1st Nov-Nov) and my profit was just over £17,000 which is a good return, one of my best to be honest, fortunately I reached my threshold by December of last year by way of a few good Lucky 15 results each £1000+ so thereafter everything was profit as long as I stayed within my usual staking pattern. I had 3 maximum bets of £200, two of which won, £200 at 9/2 & 7/2, one of which lost (9/1) although I did have accumulative bets of £150 on Corach Rambler in the grand national at rates down from 20/1 to 10/1 which boosted my profits somewhat.
 
Now here is the thing. Although on the surface of things £17,000 is a good few bob for what is in effect a hobby. Once broken down it doesn't look as good as it equates to about £325 per week, again that looks pretty good for a hobby but here is the rub, break that down to hours spent on inputting Information on spread sheets checking every result of every race and calculating the speed figures then checking every racecard against those thousands of results and times daily becomes not only tediously boring but takes a hell of a lot of time so much so that it equates to about a minimum of 40 hours per week and that excludes all the races I watch both on line and TV, Britain, Ireland, France, and Germany then add on Meydan and other UAE meetings and the total hours spent on racing is over 50 hours per week minimum which works out at just over £6.50 an hour, well below the minimum wage. The money isn't the problem, it is the repetitiveness of the daily grind that then can be thwarted by for example by rail re-alignments on the flat and missed out obstacles on the jumps all corrupting the standard times, we have to expect and accept trainer/owner manipulation of the handicap, what is harder to swallow though is blatant cheating using information that is not available to everyone (Barney Curley was a master at this) This smacked me in the face and brought home what we are up against this week with the Greatwood Hurdle, all my research five weeks ago suggested that the winner would probably be Nemean Lion and I advised and backed it accordingly at what I considered a cracking bet at 9/1 (fav) since then it was backed down to 6/1 and still thinking it was value backed it again at that price (anti post) it has now drifted back out to 9/1 due to the Mullins horse, there is/was very little in the form to suggest that the Mullins horse Onlyamatteroftime would end up 4/1 fav or be anything other than mid betting (should we just back it because Mullins has taken over its training and little else?) Okay Nemean Lion might still win and the Mullins horse be midfield but that's not the point.
 
Racing is in a bad way and my observations of the 2yo this year seems to suggest it is going to get worse, this year I hardly backed a 2yo simply because there was never sufficient form to give confidence to a selection, (so why put all that effort in to the daily grind?) Group races with small fields and horses that had not run more than twice is not a good grounding for decent bets. British jump racing is in a terrible state, come Cheltenham why would you back a British trained horse in a handicap let alone a graded race when you know the Irish are going to bring a horse over that no bugger has ever heard of 20lbs well in to win the pot.
 
So given all the above I have decided that I am going to scale right back and just have the odd sporting bet, I am considering a post naming the best/fastest horse at each AW meeting just to keep an interest so people might like to consider/follow over the next few months.
 
Nemean Lion which I tipped up weeks ago at 9/1 will be my last max bet before I lower that max down to £10 or a rare £20.
 
Yes you can make money on Horse racing but you better be prepared to work hard for it because there are very few if any short cuts other than Lady Luck.

To be fair a tenfold increase in the space of one paragraph is impressive by anyone’s standards! 

0.3 e/w Lucky 15  Bet365 BOG 9pts invested
American Sniper @ 14/1- won  16/1 Cheltenham 13:10 - Winner 5 - 1/ 5   Returns £0.00  
Gold Des Bois @ 12/1-lost Cheltenham 13:45 - Winner 4 - 1/ 5 Returns £0.00  
Belgoprince @ 6/1- lost Cheltenham 16:05 - Winner 5 - 1/ 5   Returns £0.00  
Francky Du Berlais @ 14/1-placed Cheltenham 14:55 - Winner   Return 17.09pts

Crosspark    1.30 Huntingdon     6/1 bet365

Lingfield 1.20 Oxygen 2-1 Hills