30apr11 ice Berg

Paul Berg bangs in a 18-1 winner to storm into 2nd and only 6.30 behind our leader Ken Jones. Overall only 3 winners from 38 bets other two were Pat Quinn Snr 13-2 and Barry James 9-2.

Biggest surprise was not one single nap for Frankel - what a performance

28apr11 wedding's over

mid ceremony and the sermon was boring so here we are!

Yesterday loads of winners 12 from 35 bets nothing super stunning price wise but a good team performance. Leader is still Ken Jones but drifting back a bit to the pack only 13.00 clear of Barry James in 2nd and Trevor James in 3rd.

In the plate Martin Long now 18 points clear on level bets with the 2nd &3rd place guys Justin Sercombe 93 points and Kevin Wood 73 points.

Back to the wedding - just got Adam Slater, Tim Catlin & Rod Brown's naps for today glad to see there are some of us getting our priorities right :-)

26apr11 Chesney

Wayne Morton got the one and only winner today at 11-2, from a total of 31 bets. That pushes him up to +6.09 just over 2.00 behind Barry James in 6th, the first cash place.

In the plate 3 of the leading players spookily all picked the same 5 point 2nd from Fairyhouse so not much change their either

25apr11 we're safe

Cheltenham Town FC of course after an away win today.

Excel sent 34 bets 4 winners many attempts at the Irish National best we did was 3rd! Winners were Danny Beaman, Martin Long, Pat Quinn Snr & Stuart Bentham, 4-1, 4-6, 11-10, & 4-11 respectively, so no great movement on the boards. Clearly Martin Long consolidated top spot in the plate moving to 99 points and 13 clear of Justin Sercombe still with a bet in hand.

24apr11 eggs

28 bets and 4 winners Vince Paige & Martin Long both with 11-10 winners in Eire and Mark Dighton 5-2 and the best winner of the day went to James Foley at 5-1.

In the plate Martin Long's winner was a 10 pointer and so he surged clear and sits on a very impressive 96 points from just 26 bets

23apr11 happy easter

Friday 6 forced losers!

Saturday - 37 bets and 7 winners the highlights were Gary Pascoe 15-2, Ian Walters 12-1, Paul Berg 11-1. Despite those winners all three remain worse than even so leaders pretty much untroubled. Ken Jones hasn't had much of a mention recently, he remains clear on +28.25 with Trevor James 2nd +14.00, Rod Brown 3rd +12.58 and Pete Long 4th on +12.00. Although Pete has had far fewer bets than those above him because Vince has been on holiday and he has not had a bet for the past 7 days.

Plate see Martin Long and Justin Sercombe in joint first on 86 points each although Martin has 3 bets in hand.

20apr11 Will

sorry too busy to update will do a double day on Friday morning

19apr11 and

slow day just two winners, Gary Dighton and Mark Dighton so no real changes on the boards as they were 13-8 & 4-1 respectively.

18apr11 Kate

Ordinary day with 6 winners from 27 bets but including some very nice winers. Best was Vernon Tremble with 12-1 closely followed by John Hannigan with a nice 10-1 winner & Barry James with a 7-1 winner. Other winners were Gary Pascoe, Joanne O'Brien, Justin Sercombe.

That puts Vernon positive but still sitting just outside the top 10.

16apr11 Balotelli

Just 3 from 28 today as most tried to pick the winer of the two big handicaps today Spring Cup & S Grand National, but with only one success and that was Rod Brown who had the 14-1 winner of the national to rocket him up to 3rd in the main comp and the plate. Other winners were Ken Jones, the leader, consolidating with a 5-4 winner and Mark Kelly creeping closer to the cash with a 5-4 shot.

15apr11 Man C 2 Man U 0

Friday saw 34 bets and 6 winners the best, by far, of which was Pete Long with an impressive 11-1 shot. It starting to look like last times winner wasn't as we all thought a complete and utter fluke as he sits a handy 3rd in this one! Other winners were Vince Paige, Steve Walton (don't say that much and he zooms up to 46th spot), Paul Berg, Kevin Hall & Tom Feeney.

Not much movement at the top of the plate with Justin Sercombe 5 points clear now on level bets with Martin Long in 2nd.

14apr11 toothpick

Ordinary day 5 winners from 35 bets. Winners were Mark Orlando, Mark Quinn, Rod Brown, Pat Quinn Jr and Dave Fifield nothing spectacular price wise so leaders unaffected. Plate remained unaltered.

13apr11 Brill

34 bets and a stunning 14 winners nothing massive but loads of 4-1, 3-1, & 7-2 Tim Catlin a winner just two comps ago finally got off the mark today relegating another previous winner and stalwart of the naps comp into last place - no not me, Steve Walton :-)

Plate lead swapped over again Justin Sercombe pops into a 4 point lead on 75 from Martin Long on 71. Martin Broderick had his first forced loser today and still has to get his first point in the plate! - could be worse Steve!

Lee where's the photo, look we can cover over Kevin Dighton and Pete Long.

Go Man City go

12apr11 Go Chelsea

Still 0-0 as I write but I'm looking for a sweet 0-2 both scored by Malouda!

28 bets 6 winners they were, Barry James 6-1 to go +4.00 and into 7th just 1.93 from the cash, Lee Constable 6-1 to go positive for the first time this comp, Dave Kingsbury 9-1 to leap above Vince Paige into 5th +6.21, Mark Kelly 15-8 to also leap above Vince Paige into 4th on +6.88, Tom Feeney 2-1 but he is well off the pace, and finally, of course, Martin Long 4-6 to go back to the top of the plate by one point.

As expected Martin Broderick went dormy today and will be on forced losers from now on if he missed a day.

11apr11 Boo Hoo

30 bets and an impressive 9 winners at some decent prices 6-1 winners for Peter Long, Danny Beaman, James Foley, Pat Quinn Jr, with Niel Allen 4-1 and Trevor James with a best of the day 8-1. The usual culprits in the plate all had odds on winners as well.

So that takes Trevor James back into 2nd and trims Ken Jones' lead to "just" 20.00 with Pete Long joining Mark Kelly in joint 6th the last place in the cash.

FYI if any position finishes level in the cash there is a new rule, from now on the number of winners is used as a tie break otherwise cash is shared - do we do not count 2nd, 3rd places etc.

Plate remains action packed with all the leaders trading winners and pulling away from the rest of us

10apr11 slow

Only a measly 17 bets today must be the sunshine. Just 3 winners and all odds on.

Excel just been sent Ken Jones still has a very healthy lead of 22.77 from Jed Parramore with Vince Paige in 3rd 4.05 behind Jed. The biggest mover of the week was Gary Cawsey who is just 4th after his national winner just 10p behind Vince.

All change again in the plate as Kevin Wood shoots off to Leopardstown to find a big runner race and then misses out, allowing Martin Long & Justin Sercombe to shoot past him with Justin taking over by virtue of his 5 pointer to Martin's 3.

First dormy warning of the comp now upon us - Martin Broderick only had 8 bets so far and just has 2 days spare.

09apr11 National Day

Well done Gary Cawsey & Alan Mabb for picking the National winner at 14-1 hope you both backed it. There were three other winners on Saturday to give a total of 5 from the rather low 27 bets for such an important day in the racing calendar.

Exciting at the top of the plate with a new leader Kevin Wood with 61 points and Martin Long & Justin Sercombe just 1 point behind on 60. Kevin Wood's policy of picking naps in 16+ runners really paying off he has had 13 point scoring bets with 10 of them in 16+ races hence the reason he is top with only 4 winners and Stuart Bentham with 11 and Jed Parramore on 10 winners are both not in the cash!

Signing off from a very hot Atlanta 89!!

07apr11 Aintree day 1

37 bets and 8 winners best was Danny Beaman who got of the mark with the 16-1 winner of the last - good pick in a very tough race 5 selections all picked Baby Run that won at 3-1 and a nice 10 points for the plate. Notwithstanding that Martin Long held on to the lead

05apr11 furniture

6 winners from 28 bets best were Mark Kelly & Mark Quinn who both had 9-1 winners and Rod Brown with a nice 5-1 winner. That was a treble for Mark Quinn to take him to just -1.00 in 16th and the double for Mark Kelly propels him to 3rd +8.00.

Martin Long hangs on to the lead in the plate but they are closing in

04apr11 brilliant

25 bets and 10 winners the first double digit score of the comp and plenty of 8-1, 6-1, 4-1 etc. winner - too many to list here.

Didn't affect the leader boards that much Martin Long had a winner so stays top. Ken Jones had a loser but 2nd placed Trevor James sat out and gained 1.00 but still sits 23.00 behind.

Looks like the box at Worcester is off through lack of an organizer unless anyone wants to step up - form an orderly queue :-) and speak to Vince.

Any of the Cheltenham based gang interested in filling a car- girls, booze and gambling all provided only need to stop at a KFC to fulfill all our needs :-)

Anyone know any girls?

03apr11 weekend

Sorry travelling over the weekend excel has been sent

Saturday and Sunday were a very sad set of results! 28 bets Saturday mostly at Donny and not a single winner between us and in total only 2 Niel Allen 2-1, and Justin Sercombe 4-6.

Sunday there was a bit of an improvement with 5 winners from 19 the best was horseradish at 5-1 that both Pat Quinn Snr and Rod Brown picked.

Plate Martin Long leading on 50 points from Kevin Wood on 47 and three all sitting 3rd on 42, Stuart Bentham, Jed Parramore, & Trevor James.

01apr11 fool

31 bets 5 winners with one bet to go - can't muck about waiting for the poxy 7.40 at Wolverhampton got better things to do on a Friday night. Trevor James popped in a very nice 6-1 winner (beat mine) to race back into 2nd 23.00 behind Ken Jones now on +35.00 after another looser today.

Very exciting at the top of the plate Martin Long just hanging on to 1st on 43 points in front of Stuart Bentham, Trevor James & Kevin Wood all on 42!

Next update not until late Sunday I'm away and travelling

31mar11 cactus

30 bets just 4 winners, Dave Kingsbury 11-4, James Foley 11-8, Mark Orlando 11-4, Jed Parramore 9-4.

Jed's winner pushes him to within 2 points of Martin Long the leader of the plate who sat out today and into 2nd in the main comp 25.88 behind Ken Jones. Dave Fifield falls to 3rd after sitting out.

For those of you using Vince Paige as a runner the idea isn't that you talk about all the runners then claim you napped it - but it is good fun for us winding you up about all the near misses :-)