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Let's keep going with the doubles.
Bet of the day - Duke of Lucca 20/1 ew in the Whitbread. 2:05 Sandown Seventh Sky 10/1 2:40 Sandown Finians Rainbow 9/2 2:55 Ripon Manyriverstocross 9/2 3:15 Sandown Eagles Peak 4/1 3:55 Sandown Duke of Lucca 20/1
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Some Saturday doubles:
How about: Model Pupil 4/1 Haaf a Sixpence 16/1 Oh Crick 7/1 Lively Baron 25/1 Maureen 7/2 If you want one to add another to the two long-priced ones for an ew trixie, could do worse than chuck in Bygones of Brid... I don't quite know how to say this, but today feels like a big day in my life.
For today I swapped my subscription to Racing UK for a subscription to a smart phone. Now I realise I'm the last person in the western world to own a phone. Actually, I have had a phone for ten years. I just never gave anyone its number. Or turned it on. Or knew how to use it when I did. What is a fact is that ten years ago Anne put £10 on its pay as you go contract and gave it to me to use – “like when you need to use a phone.” And I've never had to top it up. Of course, for most of that time I lived outside normal society. An independent spirit, successfully following his gambling dreams. And then less successfully. And now the corporate world keeps intruding, suggesting presenteeism is a virtue. That being available 24/7 is somehow worthy. And part of me thinks “Mmm, 24 hours a week, that doesn't sound so bad” and part of me thinks - “Oh fuck off you sad, self-regarding, twee little club of middle england slytherins, don't you know it's the Nell Gwynn stakes tomorrow?” Where was I? Ah, yes - here's to a pocketful of dreams, not a pocketful of lithium... I've just had one of those weekends. One where, the dust settled, you feel a bit sick. Sick of yourself and sick of gambling.
I definitely over-played, I probably over-staked, and just possibly I was a little unlucky... Saturday's racing didn't really interest me. So I had no excuse for getting involved in two races. On the plus side, both horses were very well backed and ran well. Which doesn't disguise the fact they both lost. As did the horses in the race I unforgivably chased in - choosing three horses from my short-list of six, only to see the other three land the bonus trifecta pool. The football followed a similar pattern. Which left me with the golf. Late on Saturday I hauled myself out of my drunken self-pity onto the laptop to top-up on some bets, all my earlier golfing picks long since out of the running. I wondered whether Adam Scott was being opposed on betfair by all those who watched him lose the Open last year. And there was certainly juice in the price at 8s. Except by the time I'd deposited some money, to replace the day's losses, the price was 5s. Instead I turned my attention to Leishman. Pootling along nicely, under the radar. And so my Adam Scott money went on Leishman at 25/1 each way, first three. I went to bed when he dumped his ball in the water at 15. He finished fourth, naturally. Back in the old days I took weekends like this on the chin. Or did my best to. In this new world with a minimal bank, I can't afford to be so phlegmatic. I need a "maximum" loss Not sure there's much appetite for yet another person's three to follow in the national, but still, these three each way:
Teaforthree Imperial Commander Major Malarkey Am currently a bit down for the Festival. Here's how Aintree works:
If you backed a horse at Cheltenham, at a nice price and it let you down, back it again at Aintree. If you backed a horse at Cheltenham and it won, and remains a nice price, then back it again. It used to be profitable to focus on horses that had skipped Cheltenham. I don't have figures but that may have changed. Tom Segal certainly thinks so. Favour Northern trainers in the handicaps. Favour front runners on the Mildmay course. Which leaves me pondering whether to forgive Rolling Star (I doubt it), and whether to back The New One at a very skinny price (probably). I'm on Anquetta ew at 20/1, shame Pricewise is also. And on Sixty Something ew also at 20/1, and will probably give Fago a go. Then I'll also play every race with a slew of other "festival" bets. See where we stand when the dust settles. Good luck. |
GamblingNotes every Saturday on that day's racing and how well or badly I've done the previous week. 
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