30nov15 poor day

Poor in terms of rubbish racing so well done for the 6 people who found a winner.  Top winner was Andy Stevens 9-2 to go 12th, others were Dave Kingsbury 9-4, Richard Pascoe stretched clear at the top with a 7-2 winner, Steve Carter 4-6, Spenser Mills 11-4 to go 11th and finally Tom McGarrity 2-1 to go 5 from 7 and sit on both leader boards!

29nov15 standard fare

27 bets today with 7 winners, top dog was Jason McConkey who got off the mark with a 7-2 winner, Barry Pemble, Steve Carter & Tommy Smith all picked up the same 2-1 winner Maurice Edgington & Kevin Roberts a surprisingly good priced 13-8 and finally Tom McGarrity 4-5 to move 7th.

In the plate Stuart Bentham, the leader, sat out and with no one catching a 10 point winner he still sits 11 points clear of me in 2nd.

28nov15 Kahunas!

Picking up yesterday's theme it was in fact me who proved the lack of Kahunas theory by selecting Smad Place and even telling Paul Berg who was on course I had, then failed to nap it instead picked some supposed favourite who drift to 11-2 and finished last!

Anyway enough tales of woe 7 winners from 38 bets, best of the day was Kevin Dighton 5-1 to go 4th, a couple picked Nambour at 1-4 at Fairyhouse, Kevin Wood & Stuart Bentham who now sits 6 from 6 - nice start.  Andy Grinter started with a 4-6 winner to move straight to 10th, Dave Barker consolidated in 3rd with a 1-5 winner.  The final two saw Kevin Roberts pick a 5-4 winner & our leader, Richard Pascoe, bring up a four timer with his 5-4 winner certainly setting the pace.

South Africa

UK racing fans welcome our SA visitors entries for this comp still open Rand accepted - but at a really bad rate :-)

For an explanation of what we are doing here see the foot of this page

27nov15 bit harder

Busiest day so far and the lowest number of winners just 5.  Joint best of the day was Stan Moore off the mark with a stupendously easy winner at 4-1, alongside him was Dave Barker, different horse, but also 4-1 to consolidate in 3rd. Others were Ben Cheetham who brought up his 2nd winner at 15-8 to scrape onto the leader board, Michael Brook kicked off his campaign with a 2-1 winner and finally Richard Pascoe our leader brought up a treble to move a little clear at the top.

Most of the plate boys sat out but with loads of 16+ runner races at Fairyhouse tomorrow expect them back - I'm obviously assuming none of them have the kahunas to nap in the Hennessy!

26nov15 Plate boys are off

31 bets today and 11 winners but oh so predictable of us, 4 on the 1-5 novice hurdler at Thurles, Barry Pemble, Vince Paige, Justin Sercombe & Kevin Wood, 3 of us on the 1-4 novice chaser at the same course, Maurice Edgington Stuart Bentham, (now 5 from 5) & Chris Pascoe and another 3 on the 8-11 winner at Taunton, Ian Carpenter, Tom McGarrity & Carl Dean so that just leaves our new leader with the best of the day 5-2 enough to move top.  See all we need is some totally uncompetitive novice races to bring everyone out to play

Kevin wants £10 @ 1000-1 on himself for the plate anyone willing to lay that :-)

25nov15 nice day

29 bets and 9 winners 4 of them were the very easy 4-9 winner, Maurice Edgington, Vince Paige, Stuart Bentham, & Barry Pemble, Joanne Hutson got off the mark with a 3-1 winner Dave Barker had best of the day 4-1 went 2 from 2 and went 3rd so a good day for him.  The other winners were Helen Fahey who also got off the mark with a 7-4 winner, Mark Sharman 100-30 and Tom McGarrity 11-8 to move one spot above dad!

The Plate Racecard!

So lets have a little speculate about the runners and riders in the plate:

Vince Paige (11-10f) the 9 time winner has said he is going for it again this time started poorly, but can anyone really stop him getting his 10th win.
Justin Sercombe (7-4) two times in a row winner surely will try and defend especially now he has moved to 2nd in the all time winner list on 5 wins (above Ian Carpenter), Vince didn't really play last comp but he beat him fair and square in the spring, yet to start in this one.
Barry Pemble (11-4) 3 time winner, pretty much always does well in this back after a summer break! so must be a strong runner 2 for 2 so far so started well.

Stuart Bentham (4-1) clearly going for it in these early stages given he is 4 from 4 with a best price 8-11, but can he keep up the pace?  Has only won the plate once in December 2011 (#29).

Ian Carpenter (6-1) 4 time winner but nothing since #23 in august 2009, definite possible!

Kevin Wood, (15-2) strong contender last time but only ever won it once in December 2009
Maurice Edgington (12-1), never won it and finished on the bubble 3 times in a row - I'm not a definite runner yet, not decided, I had a better comp last time not messing about with the plate missed cash by one place after being overtaken on the last day!
Chris Pascoe & Kevin Roberts, (both 14-1) both cashed last time and strong players in the main comp good each way bets here but with a full field and only 5 spots paying will there be space
Terry Matthews (20-1) has cashed this year but tailed off in 17th place in the last comp will he be trying?
Martin Long, (20-1) one time contender but pretty much leaves it alone now (last won it in April 08 #19), depends on whether he has the incentive of a side bet with Vince if he plays so may refuse to start!
Pete Long (33-1) - 5th in the summer comp must have been a fluke, - surely that was a career best run :-)
66-1 bar - surely the winner has to come from those above, Gary Dighton has won it twice and plays again this time but never featured under the modern scoring system.
Kevin Dighton currently trading at 1000-1 on the exchanges often goes over the first in the lead and then we never see him again, but been running under rules for ages and "every dog has his day"
One to watch - Tom McGarrity first time runner this comp, knows his stuff, just depends on whether he has managed to side step enough of the genes on the sire's side!

24nov15 new best price

7 winners today from a still low entry total of only 19 other than the outstanding 12-1 winner for Richard Pascoe the best price was only 5-2 so no fanfare for those six winners who were Tom McGarrity in his first ever bet, Tommy Smith, Ian Carpenter, and bringing up a 2 from 2 double were both Natasha Tizzano and Mark Quinn and going one better was Stuart Bentham with 3 from 3 still all less than evens but a winner's a winner :-)

Day 2 correction

Omission discovered (proves the value of checking blog!) and it was a big winner Mark Quinn 11-1 to obviously go top - sorry

23nov15 Day 2

24 bets 5 winners four of them all 2-1 they were new boy Ben Cheetham, Dave Barker, Dave Klein, & Natasha Tizzano, the other winner was Stuart Bentham who goes 2 for 2 with a 8-11 shot which means he takes over at the top of the plate.

Now up to 50 paid players with still 6 who have said yes but not yet paid - still got a shot at the biggest comp ever!

22nov15 Day one results

Overall a fair start 15 bets and 7 winners, Jimmy McGarrity finds himself top after the best of the day 9-2 winner, closely followed by Mark Sharman 100-30, Paul Stobbart 11-4, the remaining 4 were all odd on and they were Barry Pemble, Maurice Edgington (me), Stuart Bentham & Terry Matthews.

So 5 of those 7 winners are therefore joint top of the plate Barry & Terry who were on the same horse can feel a bit hard done by as 16 went to post but one got withdrawn at the start and so that cost them both 5 points

Will send out the excel more of a test then of any meaning clearly!

one more

Another one already - welcome Stan Moore and good luck

AND WE'RE OFF

SUNDAY 22ND IS DAY ONE OF COMP #40

We have 44 paid players as at this morning and a possible 13 others to join as below, this would give us nearly one of the biggest comps if they all convert.

Firstly said yes but not yet paid:

Lee Constable, Nigel Clifford, Micky Jenner, Simon Whitworth, David Hindley, Dave Ward, Andy Stevens, Andy Vinall, & Gary Dighton

Still waiting for decisions from

Tom Feeney, Jay Lewis, Danny Beaman, & Gary Kelly

Others still welcome contact Vince