30sep12 Oooh 11-11 now so close

7 winners today best was Danny Beaman 16-1 to leap up to +£10.00 and 8th place, Pat Quinn Jnr a very nice 8-1 winner to go +£23.00 and 3rd place, Gary Pascoe 9-2 to take him back positive, me 5-2, Matt Harrison 100-30 to also go back into positive territory Robert Baker 5-1, & finally Scott Bennett 7-2.  So all in all a very positive day after the very poor Saturday.

In the plate my winner was not enough to rest back 4th from Dave Kingsbury on count back and Gary Pascoe's winner was just enough to scrape onto the leader board again on count back

29sep12 Olaza-balls up

Look I'm not a golfer and I want USA to win the Ryder cup but the captain has a 'team' of which 10 out of 12 are forced on him and then he makes statements like everyone has to play on the opening day and keeps Westwood & Kymer playing and drops Poulter - sorry but that is just bad captaincy.  Captain/managers are paid to make tough decisions and that includes dropping or not playing people you have to be able to say 'look you are out of form your just playing in the singles because you have to!'

He has given it away!

Oh and Saturday's racing was tough outstanding best bet and the only winner from the leaderboard was Julian Ciampioli 9-1 winner of the Cambridgeshire to move from 12th to 5th.  Other 3 winners from a total of 54 bets were Barry Pemble 5-4, Jed Parramore also 5-4, & Rod Brown who got off the mark with a 13-2 winner.

Plate still very quiet Dave Kingsbury's 2 points was the only score.

28sep12 back from football

CTFC move back into the playoff positions with a nice 2-0 win tonight - roll on Oxford in the JPT on 09oct12!

Late update again as more last at Wolverhampton selections!

50 bets today looks like we are all getting into it a bit more after a slow start - well except for Vince Paige who has thrown in the towel already :-).  So 8 winners today best was Ian Walters who got off the mark with a nice 15-2 winner but not quite enough to make the leader board.  Both 2nd Mark Sharman 5-1, and 3rd placed Paul Evans 7-2, closed in on the leader and Pat Quinn Jnr  13-2 moved 4th.

Plate all quiet, and we have all had at least one bet now so will confirm final prizes over the weekend,

27sep12 go USA

6 winners from the largest entry of the comp so far 44 bets.  Best by a distance was Daniel Billingham with a 12-1 winner to bring him back onto the leader board in 5th.  Alan Daniels got off the mark with a 13-2 winner to sit less than £1.00 from the leader board.  Other winners were Barry Pemble, Steve Walton & Wayne Morton all with the 8-13 shot Telescope (fav for 2013 Derby), the final winner was Joanne Hutson 7-1 to go back positive on +£2.00.

In the plate Steve Walton was the only winner so he takes over in 2nd.

Sorry this is late but people will keep picking runners in the last at Wolverhampton evening meetings!

RYDER CUP

Anyone want a bet at evens with me - I would like to back USA to win (tie no bet).

Let me know

26sep12 another big one

Mark Quinn leaps to the top with a 33-1 winner today clearly the best among the 7 winners, others of note were Celeste Beaty who moved back into 4th with a 6-1 winner and Dave Barker rose to 8th with his 11-4 shot.

In the plate Steve Walton moved back above me level points but on #of winners countback.

25sep12 rubbish

No not the Twenty20 competition I meant the racing today - but I don't mean to suggest that the Twenty20 isn't rubbish!

Looked before start of play like a day to avoid and so it turned out to be, just 5 winners from 33 bets and nothing of any note.  Winners were James Foley who got of the mark with a 5-6 shot, Julian Micklethwaite who also got off the mark but with the best of the day 100-30 winner, Martin Broderick another scoring his first winner at 4-5, Matt Harrison 5-6, & Paul Evans 5-4 to close the gap a little on the leader. - See what I mean!

In the plate none of the leaders troubled the leaders at all- no one scored a single point.

Come on Val lets be having your first bet :-)

24sep12 Bye John

Oh, and thanks for all the trophies we won!

6 winners from 36 bets today Dave Barker 9-4 to go 9th, Daniel Billingham 11-4, Matt Harrison 9-4, Martin Long 11-4 to go 8th, Pauline Giles gets off the mark with an even money winner and finally Robert Baker 9-4.

In the plate my 5 point 2nd saw me replace Steve Walton in 3rd place and Martin Long's 5 point winner put him back into the cash paying positions

23sep12 come on Spurs

We are rubbish this year so far - looks grim

6 winners today from just 18 bets, best was Julian Ciampioli 7-1 in a tough 16 runner race to go 8th, also Dave barker 5-2 to scrape onto the leaderboard, Jed Parramore & Adam Slater both with the same 2-1 winner, Dave Fifield 7-2, Pat Quinn Jnr with his 3rd winner to go third with a nice 13-2 winner.

Kevin Wood's 5 point 2nd place took him top of the plate.

Just one person left to have a bet - Val Impey then we can confirm prizes

Update excel on its way by email

22sep12 50-1 winner

50-1 winner (restricted to 33-1 of course under rule #25) for Paul Evans but still shoots him up to +£22.00 and 2nd place other winners were Kevin Woods a very nice 13-2 and 10 point winner, me 9-2, John Heneghan 11-8, Mark Kelly 5-1.

In the plate Kevin Wood's 3rd 10 point winner took him into 2nd place 5 bets in hand.

Sorry so late away in London yesterday

21sep12 TFI Friday!

Always a good day for us if a few short price favourites win and so we collected 10 winners from the 33 selections today.  Best was the 7-1 winner secured by Adam Slater (to go 4th) and Bert Peart (to go 9th).   Every other winner was less than 2-1.

In the Plate a bit of movement as Steve Walton, Dave Kingsbury and Maurice Edgington all scored 5 points - so Alan Mabb's lead reduced to just 3 points and he has had 4 more bets than 2nd.

Eamon Kelly kicked of his campaign with a winner leaving just 5 to go.

20sep12 slow day

A very low 25 bets today because of plenty of non runners with Ayr abandoned.  Still managed a total of 6 winners, the best was Gary Pascoe 5-1, Scott Bennett 7-2, Ken Jones 4-5 and three guys selected Flow, the 8-11 winner at Yarmouth they were Steve Walton, Barry Pemble, and Gary Dighton.

In the plate Steve Walton moved up to 2nd as the only winner on the leaderboard.

19sep12 massive winner

and a new leader Mark Sharman picks up a 33-1 winner (the maximum price permitted in the first 41 bet period) to obviously go top.  Paul Berg picked up his 3rd winner at 5-1 to go 6th.  There were 5 other winners Martin Long, Wayne Morton, Pat Quinn Snr & Tom Feeney both got off the mark, & Julian Ciampioli.

Some changes on the plate with Martin Long moving into 4th= after his 4th winner today.

18sep12 new leader

5 winners today from 36 bets today Alan Mabb kept up his great start with his 6th winner of the competition  7-2 to go 95p in the lead.  Other winners were Vince Paige & Gary Dighton both with a 9-2 winner the best of the day, Dave Fifield who picked up his first winner at 7-2, & Martin Long with a 5-2 winner to go 6th.

Alan Mabb's winner took him a little further clear in the Plate as all the rest of leaderboard could only find 2 points between them.

17sep12 back in blighty

6 bets again from slightly more bets today, 28, this low turn out is  pretty understandable as the racing is pretty dire at the moment.  Best of the day was Dave Kingsbury at 5-1 to leap up to 3rd spot.  Other winners were Paul Berg 8-11 to scrape onto the bottom of the leaderboard, Michael Brook 3-1, Lee Johnson 13-8 to bring up a double, Kevin Hall gets off the mark with a 5-2 winner and finally Daniel Billingham 3-1.

Leaders in the plate very quiet Alan Mabb picked a single point to go 4 points clear but 4 more bets.

7 still to play as Pauline Giles got started today.

16sep12 six of the best

Only 21 bets today but 6 winners and some nice ones!  Best were the 10-1 winner picked by both Mark Quinn & Pat Quinn Jnr that puts Pat 3rd and Mark joint 4th, other winners were Alan Mabb again 11-4 to stay 2nd, Martin Long 3-1 to return to the leaderboard in 9th, Justin Sercombe 2-5 a plate bet & finally Lee Johnson 7-4 to go 10th.

In the plate Alan Mabb's 5th winner from 8 bets so far, keeps him top with Justin Sercombe & Lee Johnson joining the leaderboard.

Still 8 to have their first bets and excel on its way to all.

15sep12 Beaut for Beaty!

Celeste Beaty, a new player this comp, hits a 16-1 winner today to leap to the lead and make the plate leaderboard as well, and on a very slow day the only other winner was Roger Dore 4-1 to move into 5th.

Sorry but the ride by the young O'Brien on Camelot did leave something to desire OK he could have still won if good enough given he had 1f to catch the winner, but when riding a 2-5 shot for the first triple crown in 40 years you must appreciate that one of the few ways you can get beaten is to not cover an early move and let someone slip the field and so give yourself too much to do.  For me that what happened if he had been on the outside the Godolphin runner would not have got the lead he stole and things might have been different.

Shows why it has been 40 years!

picture gallery temp suspended

Problem is that it is not picking up latest shots from the gallery so working on it - meanwhile suspended while I sort out the link from Photobucket.com

Upside less pictures of Pete to keep looking at :-)

14sep12 nice day

Another 10 winners today highlights were Dave Barkers 9-1 10 point winner, the 3 guys who picked Times Up at 5-1 (Alan Mabb, Adam Slater & Roger Dore) that winner put Alan Mabb top of both competitions fair reward for yesterdays sportsmanship I think.  Other winners were me! Steve Walton who brought up the first treble of the comp, Celeste Beaty, Dave Kingsbury, Mark Dighton & finally Wayne Morton.

Top of the plate is very tight with Steve Walton in 3rd place and Mark Sharman in 30th place only separated by 10 points!

Now just 8 players yet to have their first bet.

13sep12 all change

AMENDED BLOG

Thanks to Alan Mabb for pointing out my error his and Dave Kingsbury's winner was 7-2 not 7-1 they still lead but by 3.50 less obviously!

9 winners today from 33 bets highlights were, Lee Johnson with a best of the day 8-1 to go to joint 4th and Alan Mabb who with Dave Kingsbury both grabbed a 7-1 winner to put them 1st & 2nd respectively, Kevin Wood went 2 from 2 to go 3rd and top of the plate.

In the plate some familiar names have started to appear apart from Kevin Wood on 20 Steve Walton's 2nd 5 pointer today put him 3rd and Alan Mabb's 3rd winner leaves him 2nd.  Justin Sercombe started with a 10 pointer and as he is 1 for 1 in reality sits on the leader board.

Pleased to report got on the board myself today with my first winner to lift the depression of being down in the depths or what we now call the Vince Paige zone!

12sep12 1-1 here we go again

Just 5 winners today from 31 bets, they were Steve Walton & Mark Nutting both the same horse at 5-2, Pat Quinn Jnr best of the day 4-1, and Bert Peart and Lee Constable with the same 7-2 winner. Good to see no-one finding much so far - well from my lowly spot anyway!

All quiet in the plate.

11sep12 steady

Another 4 winners from 36 bets today nothing of any great note.  Winners were Robert Baker 8-11 and all three of Alan Mabb, Mark Sharman & Danny Beaman who picked the same 2-1 winner.  So Alan Mabb became the first player to get a 2nd win and go top of the plate and 3rd overall.  Worthy of a quick comment was the 33-1 2nd that Mark Dighton picked for his first bet, unlucky and phew!

Still 18 players to have their first bet

10sep12 Will we ever hear the last of it!

Andy Murray of course!

4 winners from 33 bets today best was Paul Berg with a nice 7-1 winner others were Danial Billingham 4-1, Joanne Hutson 3-1, and Jake Fifield 11-4.

We welcomed an extra 3 players today Eamon & Grace decided to play after all plus a new Hereford guy Matt Harrison - good luck guys.

09sep12 very impressive start

10 winners on the opening day from just 23 bets a great start. Clearly easy to see who they were from the tables opposite.  Best was Pete Feeney at 15-2 well done.

Won't be sending the Excel update out tonight after just one day bit of a waste of time

We're Off

Shown over is the preliminary prize structure yet to be confirmed by the rules committee!

Of course it is never final until everyone has had a nap and we know they are in - so a couple of weeks

UNDER STARTER ORDERS

Well I'm ready to go tomorrow with a total of 66 runners files all set up so admin done!

Sad to see a few long standing players leave us this time such as Howard Kelly, Luke Silk and the very successful Stuart Bentham (that will give the rest of us a chance in the plate now).

Still waiting for a few which is why we are below 70 but looks like the Abingdon group of around are all now not going ahead.

Still plenty of time add people certainly anytime in the first two or three weeks would still be fine given we have 30 spare "no bet" days

57 and counting

around 20 we have contacted and replies are due and a few more from Northampton and Milton Keynes are newcomers who are still possibles

Looks like we will miss my very optimistic 100 target but should be around 75