31aug10 Geoff

Tip top stuff on the main leaderboard - Vince and Pat both picked the same horse that finished 2nd and so Geoff with his 3-1 winner moved sweetly back into 2nd and just 7.10 behind the leader.

3rd, 4th & 5th all got winners in the plate and the leader missed out so that has concertinaed up a bit and Gary D sneaks back into 2nd on 1st place count back but with 3 games in hand over 3rd he is much futher clear in reality.

30aug10 Pat

27 bets 7 forced losers and 7 winners. The most significant of which was Pat who retakes 2nd place with a 7-2 winner and moves to only 7.62 behind Vince - who is definitely getting twitchy

29aug10 Rod

24 bets 7 forced losers and 4 winners. Geoff D had a small priced winner to sneak back into 2nd but the star was Rod who picked his 5 winner from the last 6 bets to go 20 points clear in the Plate

Mark D went dormy today and the excel will be sent out shortly

28aug10 2 days

Well the only news in town for Friday and Saturday is the massive double from Pat (last times winner) Friday 16-1 and Saturday 11-1. So he has lept over almost the whole field into 2nd place on +18.88, Vince the leader is +30.00. Geoff is still in touch in third on +17.65. Plenty of other winners 6 winners in total on Friday and 4 on Saturday. Worthy of note is another double across the 2 days by Rod to stamp his authority on the plate which looks like this:

Rod 106 points, (44 bets)
Kevin W 91 (41)
Gary D 87 (38)

Jed went dormy after his no bet on Saturday and Mark D will go dormy as well if he doesn't have a bet on Sunday.

26aug10 double

22 bets including 7 forced losers and just two winners Gary C again and Tim 6-1 and 5-1 respectively. As they are still both well down even after those winners not much else to report.

All quiet on the plate front but with Rod missing a day and Gary P's 2-1f missing the frame yesterday's comment seems dead already!

25aug10 oh no!

28 bets today including 7 forced losers but Vince banged in another winner for a double this time at a much more worrying 11-2 for those of us with slim thoughts that we are not too far away to catch him. That puts him +32.00 and certain to be +9.00 even if his remaing 23 bets all lose, looking a tough ask. Geoff sits in 2nd 12.35 behind and Lee 3rd 17.04 behind. With his winner today Alan M moves back into the money on 4th 19.51 behind Vince. 5 winners in total, the other three were Ian C, Jed, & Gary D.

The leaders in the plate, Rod & Kevin W, both recorded 2nds today so let Gary D back in a bit with his winner. He moves 1 point ahead of Kevin on 87 now 9 behind Rod with 4 in hand and certainly in a stronger position. Just noticed a bit of a possible player in the Plate who has not had a mention so far that's Gary P. He sits on only 63 points, so 33 points behind Rod, but has 12 bets in hand. So a possible 60 points available, needs to be a bit good to catch up and he is dormy but probably shouldn't write him off yet a while!

With two non runners in the past 3 days Kevin Dighton, our esteemed sponsor, is now the 12th man dormy.

24aug10 winner wins

29 bets inc. 6 forced losers but delivered 5 winners unfortunately for all but one of us Vince the leader was one of them, at least it was only evens. Other winners were Rod, Lee, Kevin W & Jed. So that brings Lee to just 10.54 behind still in 3rd. Geoff needs to notice that Vince could be changing tactics here and maybe looking at a consolidation play - so Geoff no more random picks Vince is there for the taking. Could say he has a tendancy to 'do a Monty' and choke when a major win beckons - you heard it here first.

So Rod was only toying with the boys behind him in the plate after all when it matters he smashes in a quick double to go 10 points clear 4 bets ahead. It is a close call now would I take 10 points in the club house against 4 bets to go?

I should live so long :-)

23aug10 that's better

23 bets (inc. 5 forced losers) with an equal best ever day of this comp total of 8 winners. Inc. 11-1 for Lee to shoot him back into 3rd place and 5-1 for 2nd placed Geoff D who moves to just 4.85 behind Vince who is in the lead on +25.50.

Rod got back on the winning ways with a 4-1 winner to move 7 points clear at the top of the plate - this was following a very uncharacteristic 5 bets registering a total of only 3 points, which is maybe a world record for Rod!

22aug10 single winner

19 bets 4 forced losers and Gary C's 11-4 winner. Dave F became the 11th player to go dormy. Excel will be issued later

21aug10 busy Saturday

28 bets on Saturday 5 winners and 5 forced losers. Gary D & Gary P both had Seta at the unbelievable price of 11-4 - they must have been expecting odds on especially as there were 3 non runners and 3 others all picked Native Khan at 6-5 so no great action on the leaderboard. In the plate Gary D with that winner overtook Kevin W to go 2nd on 80 points 4 behind the long time plate leader Rod who has had 2 more bets.

For the first time in ages Vince, the leader, fell to less than 10.00 clear of the field

Gary P joined the list who are now dormy

20aug10 york over

24 bets on Friday (inc. 4 forced losers) just 3 winners Gary C got his first winner of the comp not a very rewarding 7-4. Tim and Ken were the other winners at 5-1 & 8-1 respectively.

All quiet in the plate

Glad to see someone is reading these closely enough to spot typos!

20aug10 half way

Today is the day when we overall will have placed more bets than we have left so the half way mark.

Firstly bear in mind that all is not lost if Vince can be nearly +30 in the first half then we all could in the 2nd half!!

So before today we have placed 964 bets (excluding the 33 forced losers) and had just 179 winners or 18.6% win rate, with an overall loss on those bets of 165.78 i.e. losing % of 17% - call ourselves racing fans that is pretty pathetic really.

Lets sharpen our act up some thrid parties might be watching this blog!!

19aug10 hooray

Busy day and the hooray is for me finally getting a winner, 8-1, Mark K also picked this winner and so with 2 other short priced winners (Mark O and Gary D) we were 4 from 27 today.

Those winners lifted me to mid table mediocrity and Mark K into 3rd place on +11.00 just 17.50 behind Vince who leads on +28.50.

18aug10 2 good winners

Quiet day yesterday but more action today only 3 winners but those included 10-1 for Pat Q and 14-1 for Roger in the Ebor. This lifted Roger into the cash and knocked Lee out of the cash for the first time since the 2nd bet of the competition.

Plate sees Rod 5 points clear of Kevin W but Kevin has 1 bet in hand. Gary D lies a further 6 loints back from 2nd with 2 bets in hand.

16aug10 a few return

18 bets 2 winners and 4 forced losers. Winners were Ian C and Justin at evens and 8-11 respectively - nuff said.

Vince is still away so this was our chance to catch up, but no-one is taking it. Well possibly Steve has with his 18-1 winner!

Already got one new recruit ready for the main winter jumps competition lined up keen fan based in Towcester. Get the feeling that we could get a bumper entry and break all prize money records - lets all get recruiting. We are still testing the new scoring system for the plate competition and I get the feeling it may need a bit of refinement but still waiting for feedback from Vince and Steve. Must be tough in accountancy :-)

15aug10 very slow

Sunday, very slow just 16 bets and that includes 7 forced losers so only 9 legitimate runners delivering 2 winners usual culprtis Gary D 10-11f and Rod with 3-1.

Excel will be issued tonight

14aug10 big winner

Saturday 25 bets 5 winners and 4 forced losers. Steve picks a great 18-1 winner to zoom up the table into 6th just 46p outside the cash. 4 other winners were for Bert, Ian W, Justin and Neil best price was 5-1 for Bert.

13aug10 single

Very slow day 10 bets plus 5 forced losers and just one winner Mark K at 7-4 so nothing to report really

12aug10 slow

Hi everyone back after a hot holiday in Cyprus. Slow day today assume plenty of you are also on hols, Vince the leader is but he has plenty of headroom before he would go dormy. Talking of which 6 people all went dormy today after failing to have a bet. They are Danny B, Justin, John R, Dan P, Gary C, and Ian W. A long way to go so expect planty of forced losers coming through from now.

Overall 14 bets with 3 winners Alan with the best a nice 8-1 winner to go 4th on +13.29 the other two were Gary D & Gary P both at 2-5!

So in the plate not much happened as apart from the three winners no-one else even scored a point! Gary D moved into 3rd only 9 points behind the leader but with 4 bets in hand.