04feb13 apologies Lee

Major cock-up on 31st Jan, by the scorer (me)! Lee Constable had a 12-1 dead heat winner and I didn't notice thought it was 2nd and marked it up as such, so that's corrected and he sits 2nd - sorry Lee good lesson for us all to check sometimes.

So today 7 winners from 38 bets, 3 of us picked the 4-11 winner (Vince Paige, me & Barry Pemble), Martin Long & Scott Bennett both picked a nice 10 pointer at 11-4, Pat Quinn Jnr got off the mark with a 13-8 winner but Stuart Bentham got the best of the day 9-2 to move onto the leader board.  So Scott's Bennett's lead is extended again - a fine start.

In the plate Vince Paige just held onto first place and despite another winner for me I'm now 5 from 6 I slipped down a place to 3rd.

03feb13 go 49ers go

Another bumper 14 winners again today from just 29 bets we don't often get up to nearly 50% win rate.  Helped by the two most popular selections both winning they were Colbert Station, McCoy's only ride at Punchestown today that won at 11-10 (good price!) and for 10 points, there were 6 on that one and 4 on Brick Red at Musselburgh that won at 5-2.  Best of the day was Tom Feeney with a 13-2 winner to go onto the leader board closely followed by Roger Dore with a 6-1 winner Mark Sharman 9-4 and Dave Kingsbury 5-4 were the other 2 winners.

In the plate Vince Paige hit the top with his 2nd 10 point winner today.

The general impression after the first week is that this is being taken pretty seriously proper horses being selected rather than speculative long shots, looks like this will be a tough one to win.

Still have 4 players left to have their first bet Daniel Billingham, Mark Dighton, Val Impey (as usual!) & Gareth Chapman.

Vince will send the excel update later today or first thing in the morning.

02feb13 poor day

5 winners from 39 bets with the really popular naps both going down they were Oscara Dara 13th (7 selections) and The Bear Trap 2nd (4 selections).  That left Scott Bennett to go top after going 2 for 2 and picking a 6-1 winner to follow up his 11-2 winner Thursday, Ian Carpenter brought up a treble with a 9-2 winner to go 2nd.  Other winners were Julian Ciampioli who opened his account with a pretty fortunate 1-2 winner in Captain Conan, Wayne Morton & Adam Slater both picked a 6-5 winner.

Justin took over at the top of the plate from me with his 2 point 2nd.

Daniel Billingham has paid, so we are good to go with a confirmed 55 runners - the results excel issued this Sunday will show the prize structure.

01feb13 leaving on a jet plane

Another good day with 8 winners from 28 bets.  First biggish winner of the comp for Michael Brook at 10-1 to, predictably at this early stage, lift him to top spot.  Other of note were Dave Kingsbury 11-2 to move him  onto both leader boards 4 on Get Back in Line at 2-1 and the other two on the 4-5 winner Hidden Justice.

In the plate I kept up my 100% record going 3 for 3 and lead on count back from Justin Sercombe also 20 points but only 2 winners.