31oct16 Lost a few

A fair few got caught by the Kempton problems so we ended up with only 31 bets but still got 7 winners.  They were Ben Cheetham 7-4 and 4 from the last 5, Barry Pemble 4-5 and a 4 timer, Celeste Sharman brought up a double with a 9-4 winner, Ian Carpenter a nice 10 pointer at 7-2, Justin Sercombe evens, Paul Berg 5-4 to scrape back onto the leader board and finally the best of the day for Tom Feeney at 5-1.

30oct16 slow day

Well apart from the very nice joint best of the days for Celeste Sharman & Steve Carter both 12-1 but different winners.  That was just enough to drag Steve to the foot of the leader board for the first time this comp.  Barry Pemble 2-7 & Justin Sercombe 11-8 were the only other winners both consolidating their positions in the plate.

Very interesting comp as we move into the second half, 20 players are positive and less than £19 between those first and 20th - so anyone's comp well except for Vince :-)

29oct16 Bumper Saturday

14 winners in total and some very nice ones Roger Dore put himself in the leader board picture for the first time this comp with Irish Cavalier at 16-1, two managed Antony at 11-1 they were Carol Carter & Tim Catlin enough to move him up to 4th and only £3.10 off the lead, Jon Curtis warrants a rare mention :-) brought up a double with an 8-1 winner but he needed to.  Robert Logan & Ian Carpenter found a 10 point winner at 2-1 to improve in the plate.  While the favourites in the plate both have 13 bets in hand sometimes when a runner goes clear they don't always get caught and picking 10 pointers will certainly help!

28oct16 new leader

Spenser regains the lead but only by virtue of his non-runner!

6 winners on Friday in total, best of the day was Tommy Smith at 8-1, other 5 were Tom McGarrity 7-2, Terry Matthews 3-1 to return to the leader board, Jon Curtis 9-2, and Stuart Bentham & Barry Pemble both 8-13 to continue reeling in Robert Logan the leader in the plate.

27oct16 2 days

Out last night sorry 7 winners yesterday and just 2 today who were Paul Berg best of the day with 3-1 & Carl dean who brought up a treble and moved 3rd

25oct16 what a horse!

Thistlecrack and I was the only one to nap it!  11 winners in total including both of the leaders which saw Spenser gain just 10p the best of the day was Ben Cheetham at 11-2 hotly followed by Ernie Moore at 5-1 - too late to do the rest!

24oct16 Another single winner

And it is my little girl :-)

Jade Edgington 11-2 only her 2nd winner but well ahead of Vince! on what was a pretty slow day

23oct16 Correction

Sorry Dave Barker had a winner that I missed 4-1- oops

23oct16 Correction

Sorry Dave Barker had a winner that I missed 4-1- oops

23oct16 sublime to ridiculous

First blank day of the comp and there were 41 bets - but just look down the SPs and you see why!

22oct16 Bumper day

16 winners from 46 bets, 1 in 3 pretty good although loads of the short price stuff obliged.

Best of the day was Paul Berg at 8-1 to put him 17th just £1.26 short of the leader board.  There were 3 on Fox Norton at 5-2 they were Andy Vinall, Gary Pascoe & Dave Barker, 4 were on the 10 point 2-5 winner in the first at Punchestown, Stuart Bentham, Barry Pemble, Chris Pascoe, Justin Sercombe.  Helen Fahey 11-4, Jason McConkey 2-1, Jimmy McGarrity 9-2, Sarah Parker 7-2, Kieron Badger 4-1, and three of us Terry Matthews, me and Kevin Wood, all had a 4-6 winner made up the rest.

So lots of changes but all very tight with less than £4 covering all the places from 4th to 11th.

22oct16 Great opening day

Big show for the opening day of the Cheltenham season yesterday Guinness & Sloe gin for breakfast!!

Not such a great day on the winners though best of the day was 6-1 for Callum Roberts, Jason McConkey 3-1, me & Terry Matthews both 6-5, Martin Long 7-2 to move 5th and that was it from 47 bets!

20oct16 New Leader

Just as Vince was saying we haven't had may winners recent we set a new high water mark with 14 today!  The outstanding one was Nigel Clifford who until today was sitting at the foot of the table but not now after his 20-1 winner.  Probably as impressive was the 5-1 winner for Chris Pascoe in a tough 18 runner race his 3rd 10 pointer in a row and moves him 9th overall and onto the leader board in the plate.  Rod Brown also picked up a 5-1 winner to go 35p clear at the top.  Won't do all the others most were pretty short prices.

19oct16 update

Just 5 winners Chris Pascoe & Ernie Moore both 7-4, me 2-5, Pete long 5-4, & finally Kevin Wood 4-6, that's all!

18oct16 London

Away last might but easy update only 26 bets and only 2 winners Tom Feeney 9-2 best of the day and Dave Brammer 7-2 to go 5th

17oct16 so predictable

OK Death Duty was by far the best horse racing today so hard to overlook and most of us didn't!  With Barry Pemble, Chris Pascoe, Justin Sercombe, Ian Carpenter, me, Robert Logan & Stuart Bentham all selecting it at the rewarding price of 1-3 (actually that was good value it never came off the bridle).

So that was 7 of the 9 winners today leaving just Annette Berg & Terry Matthews as joint best of the day with their 9-4 winner sufficient to nudge Terry just up onto the leader board for the first time this comp, nice turnaround.

16oct16 oops forgot

Finished everything this afternoon then forgot to update :-(

9 winners today a few of us on the same 10 pointer at 11-4 (what a great price!) we were Justin Sercombe, me, Ian Carpenter & Stuart Bentham, Andy Grinter picked up an 8-11 winner, Steve Carter at 10-1 secured best of the day to just go positive and sit in 16th, Andy Vinall had another good winner at 17-2 to go 5th, Kevin Wood 7-2 & Gary Pascoe 9-2 made up the 9.

File will be sent out on Monday as I have already started entering the Monday selections that come in overnight!

16oct16 oops forgot

Finished everything this afternoon then forgot to update :-(

8 winners today a few of us on the same 10 pointer at 11-4 (what a great price!) we were Justin Sercombe, me, Ian Carpenter & Stuart Bentham, Andy Grinter picked up an 8-11 winner, Steve Carter at 10-1 secured best of the day to just go positive and sit in 16th, Andy Vinall had another good winner at 17-2 to go 5th, Kevin Wood 7-2 made up the 8.

File will be sent out on Monday as I have already started entering the Monday selections that come in overnight!

15oct16 Late

Sorry out last night and there were some late selections at wolves! So as they all lost we were left with just the 4 winners (6 selection went down on the badly ridden Order of St George).  The best of the day was Dave Klein 13-2, Carl Dean grabbed a 4-1 winner to go 4th, Paul Stobbart 7-4, & Terry Matthews now 3 winners from 4 since he went dormy he now sits in 16th just off the leader board.

14oct16 quickly

7 winners Andy Grinter 6-4, Dave Brammer & Justin Sercombe both 11-8, Maurice Edgington 5-4, Jason McConkey 9-2, Tim Catlin & Terry Matthews both 5-2

13oct16 half a dozen

They were as follows, Jo Hutson 11-4, Kevin Pratt 9-4, Pete Long 7-1, Pat Quinn Jnr 7-2, the leader Spenser Mills pulling away with a 9-2 winner and finally the best of the day for Sarah Parker at 8-1.

12oct16 Carl bangs in a big one!

Best of the day and a move straight to 6th place was the 14-1 winner for Carl Dean, Terry Matthews now dormy from yesterday popped in his first winner at 7-1 to move close to level, Jimmy also nabbed a 7-1 winner to move 5th and the only other winner was Kevin Wood 7-2 also enough to get him back on the leader board.

Sublime to the ridiculous in the plate today the only points scored by anyone on the leader board was my 2 for a second this evening, perhaps not so exciting then!

11oct16 nil nil lets just give up!

What else is left to say almost worse than the summer!

But all action here with the guys in the plate really slugging it out at the top already nice 10 point winners for Robert Logan, Justin Sercombe, Martin Long & Ian Carpenter to get on the leader board.  Best of the day was recorded by Steve Carter 8-1, Andy Grinter 7-2, Andy Vinall 5-1, Callum Roberts 4-1, Dave Brammer 5-2, Stuart Bentham 4-5, were the rest of today's 10 winners.

10oct16 About time

Rooney was dropped that is the national side is no place for sentiment, he's simply not the player he was just look at his performance against Iceland!

7 winners for us Jo Hutson brought up a 4 timer & secured best of the day with a nice 5-1 winner to go 5th, Annette Berg 6-4, Andy Grinter & Dave Brammer both 5-4, Chris Pascoe 9-2 to make the leader board, Martin Long 4-1 to move 4th and finally a very nice 5-2 winner and 10 points for Robert Logan to put a little distance between him at the top of the plate.

09oct16 Anything but Strictly!

Hence the nice early update :-)

9 winners for us today with joint 7-1 winners for Dave Barker and Celeste Sharman who got off the mark.  5 of us all went for the cert 1-3 winner and 5 points those five i hardly need to say but here goes anyway, Robert Logan, me, Barry Pemble, Justin Sercombe & Stuart Bentham (Kevin Roberts sat out).  So that leaves just two more and they were Both on the same winner at 5-1 Gary Pascoe to return to the leader board and Paul Mott to take over back in 2nd.

Excel on its way so with just two extra players from last time the prizes for the plate remain unaltered and the extra hundred has been added to the main comp prize list to extend payouts down to 10th.

08oct16 2 poxy goals!

8 for us! and a phrase not often employed I was joint best of the day with Tom McGarrity at 15-2 that took me up to 7th and tom to 10th.  Other winners were Carl Dean, Jade Edgington & our leader Spenser Mills all 3-1, Dave Brammer 11-10 to sit 6th, Jason McConkey 9-2 & Roger Dore 5-1

07oct16 big day

11 winners so too many to list out on a Friday night!

Highlights were 7-1 for Jo Hutson to bring up a treble and 11th place, Jimmy McGarrity also 7-1 to move 7th, Best of the day for Andy Grinter 9-1 and Tim Catlin 8-1 to go 4th.  Mad 5 point bonanza at the top of the plate as a definite gap is opening between top 4 and the rest

06oct16 Welcome back

Anyone ever been to Hereford racing? But welcome back anyway it delivered most of our winners today a total of 7 best of the day was Jo Hutson bringing up a double with a 4-1 winner, Barry Pemble, Justin Sercombe & Robert Logan all at 1-2, Helen Fahey 9-4, Michael Brook 3-1 & Tom Feeney 7-2 so but overall not much movement

05oct16 Double Day

What's happened I miss one day's update and everyone goes mad 23 winners in total so clearly not going through all those I will just pick out the top 4 or 5 which were Andy Stevens 12-1 today to go 5th, Andy Vinall 10-1 to go 9th, Martin Long 7-1 to go 4th, and the new leader Spenser Mills 15-2.

Some nice performances in the plate with lots of short price winners the stand out was Kevin Roberts who only missed out taking over as the new leader on number of seconds count back after picking 2 winners and 20 points!

03oct16 Viva Espana

Another fine total today 9 winners Annette Berg 7-4, Barry Pemble & Paul Stobbart both 8-11, Ian Carpenter 3-1, Martin Long 15-8, Roger Dore 4-1 and best of the day, Robert Logan & Stuart Bentham both 1-2, and finally Tom Feeney 9-4.

02oct16 Another big day

10 winners for us all today from just 33 bets - nice hit rate
Best of the day fell to Andy Stevens at a pretty miserly 9-2 given their were 10 winners! Three had the same 3-1 winner Carl Dean, Jimmy McGarrity & Paul Mott, Gary Pascoe & I both had the very impressive Jet Setting at 7-4, Kevin Wood evens, Paul Stobbart 6-4 and Martin Long & Tom McGarrity both 2-1 were the rest.

01oct16 big winners

11 winners today topped rather unbelievably :-) by Pete Long at 20-1 to record his first winner and go 5th.   Another good one was Kevin Wood 12-1 to move 8th, Jimmy McGarrity, Roger Dore, and me all scored with 7-4 shots, Dave Brammer 11-4 on the very impressive Eternally at Ascot.  Gary Pascoe brought up a double with a nice 9-2 winner to go positive and sit just off the leader board.  The others were Kevin Roberts 4-7, Paul Stobbart 11-2.

30sep16 Come on

All looked so good after the morning sessions then they once again got psyched out it - what is wrong with them, get a grip your at home.

5 winners for us Spenser Mills with his joint best of the day 8-1 put the leader under pressure but Rod duly responded with his own 7-4 winner to retain the lead.  The other joint best of the day was past champ Roger Dore who got off the mark with the same 8-1 winner.  Stuart Bentham another 4-9 shot to go 3rd in the plate.  That leaves Kevin Roberts another joint best 8-1 winner but a 10 pointer to go 2nd in the plate and onto the foot of the leader board