31oct12 goodbye star nice one!

Just 5 winners today best was Mark Kelly 9-1 to go positive and into 26th, others were Vince Paige, Kevin Wood, Wayne Morton & Pete Long.

Only winner in the plate was Kevin Wood's 10 pointer to retake the lead again

30oct12 back from 2 down

Swindon go go!

8 winners today from 52 bets Robert Baker 5-1 & Jed Parramore were the only 2 among the 8 that were odds against!  Get the impression that in general people are starting to take things a bit more seriously now (well other than Vince of course).

In the plate flip flop at the top as Barry Pemble takes over at the top again and Martin Long moves up a place into the cash.

29oct12 big winner

12 winners from from a very busy Monday with 53 bets in total, the best was from a previous winner Tom Feeney at 25-1 to shoot him up the table and into 5th.  Others of note were Grace Loder 11-2, Alan Mabb 5-1, Kevin Wood an impressive 9-2 winner in the biggest race of the day so 10 points, Matt Harrison 5-1 to go back positive, and Wayne Morton 5-1.

In the plate all the top 4 had winners but Kevin Wood took back over on top with his 10 pointer.

28oct12 farce at Stamford Bridge

2 sent off what rubbish officials (OK one red was deserved) and an offside winner!!  Just review the play and get it right.

Only 5 winners today and that included Barry Pemble and my 1-6 winner in Eire! Best of the day was Kim Giles 11-2 and others were Gary Cawsey 3-1 and John Roach 13-8.

Sorry missed Gary Dighton who actually had the best of the day 13-2 to make up the 5 winners for the day!

In the plate Barry Pemble took over at the top as Kevin Wood sat out again - as a tactic he has to let Barry catch up on number of bets so this was inevitable.

Excel update on its way

RULE REMINDER

Hi don't forget with racing starting earlier after the clocks change entries must be in by either the earlier of 1.30 pm or at least 30 minutes before the start of the race.

27oct12 Go CTFC

Moderate 7 winners today from 53 bets the busiest day of the comp.  Best of the day was Tom Feeney 17-2, but that wasn't enough to even move him to the top half, Kim Giles 11-2 was next best and Bert Peart third with 9-2 and they were the only winners bigger than 11-8.  (those 4 were Barry Pemble, Martin Long, Jake Fifield, Gary Pascoe).

In the plate Martin Long made it to 6th with his 5 pointer and Barry made 2nd with his.

26oct12 triple whammy!

17 winners over the last 2 days so selecting the obvious highlights, Dave & Jake Fifield together with John Heneghan all picked the same 25-1 winner always a problem when a long shot with one of players names wins!! My Mate Jake :-) but well done and that lifts both the Fifield's onto the leaderboard.  John Curtis picked a 16-1 winner on Thursday to move 5th and the only person to pick 2 from 2 was Barry Pemble.

In the plate Kevin Wood crept a bit closer to three figures but both Justin Sercombe and Barry Pemble are fast catching him.  A suggestion that there is a bit of a gap opening between the big three and the rest of us.

25oct12 delayed

Sorry Thursday's update delayed file updated then had a computer crash and lost the file had had to go back to the previous day to restore everything :-(

Expect two days in one this evening

24oct12 No Poppy, No!

9 naps on No Poppy today so definitely good for the other 60 of us that it could only manage a 4th.  Only 5 winners and a big one from Mark Nutting topped the pile at 20-1 but as that was only his 2nd winner then it only took him back to -£3.50 and 30th! Paul Berg popped in another decent priced winner at 7-1 to just scrape into 2nd place still £18 behind the leader and Jake Fifield at 12-1 rounded off a good day for long priced winners.  The other 2 winners were Jed Parramore 6-5 & Dave Kingsbury 3-1.

In the plate news flash - Barry Pemble failed to score good old No Poppy, most of the others on the leaderboard scrapped 2 points.

24oct12 famous five

And the five were Julian Micklethwaite 11-4, Annette Berg 6-4, Bert Peart 3-1, George Casserley 3-1, and Julian Ciampioli 3-1. So all that didn't make much difference!

In the plate all the leaders scored some points but order remained unaffected.

Note the small side bet update text box - if there are any others happening let me know and I'll do the same for them.

Kev's bet is accepted

£100 bet who finishes higher between Maurice & Kev (Kev gets +£25.00)

And if Steve & I had had an invite from the lads to watch it at the club then we may not have had to troop all the way to Ascot without a badge - but hey we didn't :-(

22oct12 just two left

Only Kevin Dighton our esteemed sponsor and Terry Mathews left to get off the mark after Ian Carpenter got off the mark with a 7-1 winner today.  A very creditable 9 winners today John Roach continued his purple patch with a 3rd winner in 4 days 9-1 to reach the leader board, Dave barker had the same 7-1 winner as Ian to move positive and loads of others!

Plate Julian Ciampioli's 5 pointer knocked me out 6th as my 3-1 favourite backed into 9-4 finished last 115 lengths behind the winner looks like Adrian Maguire's riding skills not transferred to training then!

Kevin as I can't get Vince to accept any bet as he is not good enough and is giving up how about a bet for next entry into the comp.  Best finishing position in main comp I'll give you +£20.00 on the handicap. That means you will start on +£1.00 against my -63p but you have had 8 fewer bets.

21oct12 no change

A few winners but not a single change of place at all on either leaderboard!

Winners of note were Pete Long 9-1 gallingly now a few pence above me after 2 winners in a row, Mark Kelly 7-1 to go back positive another taking a bit more interest now they are dormy.  Others were Jimmy McGarrity 4-1 his first winner for ages, Steve Walton & Barry Pemble both captured a 5-6 winner and Wayne Morton 7-1.

In the plate there are now 4 of us all on the same total of 55, Celeste Beaty, Rod Brown, Julian Ciampioli and me but I'm just hanging onto the glory of the leaderboard on count back!

bet of the day

Toulon  to beat Cardiff handicap -8 points at 10/11

20oct12 Frankel glory

Unfortunately without Steve & my attendance as I got caught trying to tout a badge and couldn't get in!!

Best of the 8 winners of the day was for James Foley currently dormy but now getting back into it by delivering a 10-1 winner and going positive +83p, the other decent winners were John Roach late last night with a 17-2 winner to go to +£3.50 and Scott Bennett 9-1.  All the other were short price winners

In the plate Kevin Wood & Justin Sercombe both picked up 10 points to sit 1st & 2nd, my 5 point winner just managed to lift me back onto the leaderboard above Celeste Beaty & Julian Ciampioli who both have 55 points as well on number of 2nds count back.

19oct12 one to come

Given that it is Friday night and we have one running in the 9.20 I'm cutting this now with that result still to come. 8 winners today best by far is Jed Parramore 20-1 winner to move up to +£7.73 14th place just below the leader board also Daniel Billingham his 2nd 8-1 winner in 2 days to move 5th.  A few of the old regulars all picked winners today Steve Walton 11-10, Barry Pemble evens, Justin Sercombe 9-2, Kevin Wood 7-2 and Rod Brown 4-1, the exception to the regulars was the final winner today Pete Long with a 5-1 winner.

A fair few winners today on the among the leader board today, with only Paul Evans missing out on a winner 10 pointers for Kevin Wood & Justin Sercombe were impressive in very tough races at Cheltenham.

18oct12 surprised think not

So that's Jimmy & Lance what next, talent shows are rigged by Simon, SP returns are manipulated by the bookies, "needs a run" means I'm running them even though they are not fit, and maybe even, what, the Pope's a catholic!

6 winners today Gareth Chapman gets off the mark with a 7-2 winner,  Adam Slater also 7-2 to move up a place to 8th, Barry Pemble 4-7, Steve Walton 9-10, best of the day 4-1 for Pat Quinn Snr and finally Wayne Morton 3-1.

Barry Pemble continued his inexorable rise to the top with his 5 pointer moving him up to 2nd.

Steve & I off to see Frankel's final run Saturday anyone else planning to go text me on the day lets meet up for a beverage we will be there really early as I have got to tout a ticket :-(

17oct12 one all what a shower

8 winners on a busy day with 51 bets, best of the day was Tim Catlin with a 12-1 winner but as he had started pretty slowly that only lifted him to 25th, also winners for Barry Pemble 5-6, Vince Paige 5-6, Adam Slater 6-4 to maintain his place on the leader board, Daniel Billingham a nice 8-1 winner to go back up to 9th, John Roach 5-1, Lee Johnson 7-2, and finally Matt Harrison 8-1 to move 16th.

Barry Pemble's winner at 5 points moved him to 3rd, still with plenty of bets in hand, Vince Paige moved up to 23rd not really troubling the leaders :-)

16oct12 off - where's the roof!

4 winners today from a much depleted field after loads of non runners from Newcastle abandonment.  The winners were another top shot 7-1 winner this time for Martin Long & Gary Pascoe it was enough to get Martin Long to scrape onto the bottom of the leader board, Steve Walton & George Casserley were the other two winners

In the plate Steve Walton moved back onto the leader board in 4th after his 5 pointer

15oct12 7 for Hughes

I was there at Ascot when Frankie did it in 1996 10,168-1 accumulator!

Another tough one with pretty much the same result as yesterday just 3 winners and the best was again Eamon Kelly with another 7-1 winner to go 5th, the other two were Lee Johnson 7-2 and Gary Cawsey who got off the mark with a 5-2 winner.

In the plate all the leaders seem to be doing what i always do and sit out Mondays always rubbish racing in general and so a good day to miss, so only one bet today from Paul Evans and that missed!

14oct12 another tough one

Just 3 winners again from 43 bets but all three were of significance, best was Eamon Kelly 7-1 to lift him to 7th Justin Sercombe & Celeste Beaty the same nice 10 pointer at 2-1 to bring them both onto the plate leaderboard and to take Celeste to 2nd a great performance for her first comp.

Val Impey went dormy today and a few others are close

Excel update will follow when they finally get the last at Goodwood details up I know they all lost but can't finish the details.

13oct12 just no stopping him

Leader wins again that's 5 winners from the last 6 for Mark Quinn with today's 9-2 winner brilliant stuff on what was a difficult day with only 3 winners in total.  Others were Barry Pemble 30-100, and Mark Sharman 15-2 to move up to 3rd.

In the plate Barry Pemble finally shook off Steve Walton and me to move into 4th, the leader in waiting! Martin Long picked up 5 points for 2nd in the Cesarewitch to move to level points with Steve Walton & me but misses the leaderboard on count back.

12oct12 late Friday

oops forgot wine was too good!

8 winners yesterday but the three guys who picked the same 11-1 winner No Poppy shook things up a bit especially as one was the leader, Mark Quinn, who has worryingly already reached the total that means he is guaranteed to finish up.  In fact the worst his final total can be is now already +£13.91 so that's our first target at least.  The other two were Celeste Beaty who rose to 3rd and Kim Giles who sits 15th on +£5.25.
The other five winners were Dave Fifield, Matt Harrison, Pauline Giles, Pat Quinn Jnr, & Rod Brown


In the plate only Kevin Wood managed to trouble the scorers so no movement

11oct12 all a bit sensitive aren't we?

So another footballer upsets someone else over another little swear word - talk about over the top come on lets have some resilience shall we.  The right to be offensive and distasteful is an essential part freedom of speech in a free society society or we have no humour and no critisism.

OK back down from the soap box the racing:

8 winners today from 43 bets and the outstanding result was the 14-1 winner for Eamon Kelly who has finally got going after a very late start.  Other winners included Steve Walton & Mark Quinn both with the same 10-11 winner, Bert Peart 3-1, John Roach who got off the mark with a 5-1 shot, Matt Harrison 11-4,  Paul Berg 5-2 a previous winner now well into his stride in this one, & Tom Feeney brought up a double with a 6-1 winner.

In the plate both the top 2 failed to score and Steve Walton joined Barry Pemble & i on 48 points separated on count back only

10oct12 big winner

Jon Curtis bags a 25-1 winner one of 8 today, that took him straight up to 10th - just shows how far down he was :-).  Michael Brook 9-2 and Tim Catlin 3-1 were the only others of note.

In the plate the two leaders pulled away as they both got a 10 point winner and Julian Ciampioli 5 point winner moved him to 3rd.

09oct12 it was all going so well

Went to CTFC v Oxford going along nicely ok we did go 0-1 down but came back nicely to lead 2-1 by half time then wheels just fell off and we lost 2-4 - so concentrate on the league then :-).

Loads of winners 11 to be precise, 5 were the 10 point 7-2 winner Gull Rock the fab five were Rod Brown, Kevin Wood, Paul Evans, Eamon Kelly & Grace Loder (who both got off the mark), best of the day was 11-2 for Paul Berg who went 3rd, and the leader Mark Quinn picked up another winner at 3-1.

All change in the plate with three new names appearing on the leader board since yesterday - Kevin Wood returned to the top with the 10 point fab 5 winner and Paul Evans followed him straight into the #2 spot, Julian Ciampioli also entered joined in 5th place level on points with 3rd & 4th who both sat out.

08oct12 no messing

From Mark Quinn one day knocked off the top spot and he fires in a 10-1 winner to go clear.  Only three other winners Justin Sercombe 11-8, Pauline Giles 11-4 and Val Impey got off the mark with a 7-2 winner.

Pretty quiet in the plate only 2 people even making a selection and so Dave Kingsbury's 2 point 2nd was enough to take him back to 4th.

07oct12 new leader

Paul Evans returns to the top after a small winner today.  In all there were 10 winners from just 33 bets so too many to go through perhaps should pick out Martin Long 4-1 in the only 16 runner race of the day a brave pick.

In the plate as predicted Barry Pemble drew along side me on level points i keep first on count back # of winners.  Martin Long's 10 pointer brings him up to third.  It is all very tight with only 18 points between the leaders and Vince Paige in 20th.

06oct12 big day

In terms of number of winners 12 from 50 bets.  The best price was 6-1 and this was recorded by Vince Paige, Celeste Beaty to move 7th, Ken Jones, Gary Dighton but clearly too many to list everyone.

Excitement in the plate (well for me anyway) as my 4th winner in a row took me top, sort of waiting for Barry Pemble to take over however as he has 6 bets in hand!  Vince Paige did get his 2nd 10 pointer and moves up another 10 places - he can't keep this up surely?

05oct12 Man up Ashley

Look Ashley Cole gave evidence in a court of law and that was accepted where the burden of proof is much heavier and where the judges are not appointed by the prosecuting organisation (yes who else appoints the 'independent' judges at the FA tribunal but the FA) and now they are rubbishing his evidence I think he has a right to be upset .  Just because you said it in the heat of the moment is no reason to grovel - get some Ashley.

Oh yes and today's racing :-) 9 winners from 37 bets so much better.  Best of the day was Ian Walters 9-2 that's a double and his 3rd winner in 7 days to move from -£11.00 to 18th and +£4.50.  The others of note were Pauline Giles 7-2, Rod Brown 11-4 his 4th winner in 6 bets to pretty much mirror the move of Ian and now sits 19th +£4.05, and Vince Paige at 4-1.

However despite all the winners the leaderboard was unaffected - none of the top 12 troubled the scorer (me).

In the plate lots of action at the top Steve Walton, last times winner, finally clawed his way to the top on # of winners count back, my 3rd winner in 3 days moved me 3rd 1 point behind the top two but with bets in hand on them both.  Barry Pemble the plate winner from Comp #30 joined the leaders and has loads of bets in hand on us all.  Vince Paige's winner was a 10 pointer the start of his forlorn attempt to overtake Steve & I, OK he lept from 49th to 28th with today's winner but its much tougher at the top!!

04oct12 no stopping CTFC now

Another poor return only 4 winners from 50 bets they were in descending order Martin Broderick 8-1 now just short of the top 12, Bert Peart 9-2 (enough to get onto the leader board - just), Rod Brown 4-1 and bringing up the rear me with a 10-11 shot.

In the plate my 3 point winner (4 non runners took the field down to 6!) was enough to get back into 5th

03oct12 Welcome back KP

Only 4 winners today but some nice ones topped by Paul Berg with a 16-1 winner to fire up to 5th, Paul Evans took 2nd place from Mark Sharman with his 9-2 winner, Adam Slater picked a 9-1 winner and so moved back into the mix at the top in 6th place and finally Ian Walters picked only his 2nd winner but at 13-2 that was enough to take him exactly level in 23rd place.

In the plate Paul Evans 5 points brought him onto the leader board in 5th place

02oct12 busy day

Busy day for a midweek low quality racing day with 49 bets and 7 winners.  Both Bert Peart & Pat Quinn Snr picked the same 15-2 winner but Roger Dore with a 16-1 winner secured the honour of the best winner of the day and moved onto the leaderboard in 8th.  Other winners were Neil Harrison evens, Jimmy McGarrity 3-1, George Casserley got off the mark with a 5-2 winner & finally Alan Mabb with an 11-2 winner got back into winning ways after 7 losers in a row to move up to 5th.

In the plate a bit of movement Alan Mabb's 5 point winner took him back 2nd and Dave Kingsbury also moved past Steve Walton into 3rd as Steve sat out, Gary Pascoe rejoined the top 6 as he moved past me as I sat out for the 2nd day in a row.

01oct12 come back KP - please

Just 5 winners today from 37 bets 3 guys picked the 9-5 winner they were  Rod Brown, Pete Feeney & Paul Evans with both Justin Sercombe and Barry Pemble securing the 5 points with a 2-7 winner.

So in the plate inevitably Barry Pemble arrives on the leaderboard in 5th on # of 2nds count back and Justin Sercombe is bubbling under on 30 so expect a pretty familiar look pretty look shortly.

Golf update

OK I know so Olazabal didn't blow it but if he was doing that again I bet he wouldn't leave out Poulter to play Henson again!!

A big thank you to everyone for not taking up my bet and considering that I basically backed the USA I only ended up down £13.00 that's got to be a result as they lost!!