CHINK OF LIGHT?

Some suggestion that Royal Ascot might happen behind closed doors that's 5 days of racing so maybe do 3 bets per day 15 naps and a mini comp might work

Any interest?

24mar20 THE END

4 winners on what turned out to be our final day they were Vince Paige & Stuart Bentham both 10 points and 6-4, Kevin Wood 9-4 not quite enough to win cash & best of the day 10-1 for Pete Long.  Sad end to the comp who knows when the one will start.

Good luck everyone and stay inside!

Vince will sort cash over the next couple of days & congratulations to Roger Dore the lowest winning total since Ian Carpenter's -0.15 score in November 2003.

23mar20 ORDINARY

4 winners Vince Paige I think pretty much wrapped up the plate with his 10 point 2-1 winner 42 points clear is probably enough whatever he picks from now on.  Jason McConkey hit best of the day with a 12-1 winner to go into the top half, others were Helen Fahey 15-2 and Kevin Wood 7-2 to move onto the leader board on the bubble.

22mar20 NEW LEADER & NEW 3RD

9 winners today the top 4 boring platers all picked the same 1-6 winner if they want to catch Vince they are going to have to pick a horse they know he won't pick.  The other 4 were topped by the very nice 20-1 winner for Paul Berg and the equally significant winner for Roger Dore at 7-4, the final 3 winners all picked the same 9-4 winner they were Chris Pascoe, me, Mark Lowry.

Excel on its way

21mar20 NICE AT THURLES

A nice little day's racing at Thurles just 3 winners me & Chris Pascoe both 3-1 and best of the day for Martin Long at 13-2, which lifted him into the money in 7th with Chris's winner keeping him just 17p ahead of Martin. 

20mar20 GOOD OLD IRELAND

6 winners today best of which was for Chis Pascoe 10-1 to move onto the leader board Chris Martin & Mark Lowry 11-8, Gary Pascoe 11-4,  Roger Dore 15-8, Tom McGarrity 5-2. 

19mar20 UPDATED :-)

all eyes on Dundalk then for tomorrow

18mar20 SO WE CARRY ON

So today and tomorrow no bets than back on track for Dundalk for 3 days if they don't change their minds

IRELAND SURVIVES - WOW!

So racing at Dundalk on Friday its not over I can still win :-)

17mar20 IS THIS THE END?

Ireland decides at 1.00pm tomorrow whether racing is stopped if it is then the outcome is shown over otherwise its all at Dundalk on Thursday evening!

6 winners today Vince & Stuart both 4-7 and 5 points the big one was Mark Sharman as he described it as his "hail Mary" and it got there at 25-1 to go 3rd - good one!  The others were  Colin Warmington 100-30, Jimmy McGarrity 5-1 & Michael Brook 7-2. 

ALL RACING CANCELLED

If this applies to Ireland as well then that will be it unless something dramatic happens today we are finished as per the leader boards over

16mar20 NATIONAL IS OFF

Bad sign with that lost.  7 winners today as follows: best of the day past champ Andy Stevens 16-1 still well behind though, me and Spenser Mills both 6-4, Michael Brook & Mark Lowry both 13-8, Tom McGarrity 2-5 with his 30th winner and Vince Paige 4-6. 

15mar20 7 ON A POOR DAY

Best of the day was Spenser Mills 9-1 and boy did he need that!  The others were Gemma Thompson 5-6, Helen Fahey 4-1, Mark Lowry 5-2, Stuart Bentham 4-5, Tom Feeney 9-2 to move into 5th & Tom McGarrity 2-5 to retake 3rd spot in the plate.  Special mention for Ben Cheetham who is propping up the table after he just missed out with a 50-1 2nd - bad luck  that would have taken you 4th. 

14mar20 NEW LEADER!

Chris Martin takes over at the top with his 6-1 winner unseating Roger who had been there for a good few weeks.  Overall there were 6 winners so the other 5 were the McGarritys who both also had the same 6-1 winner, best of the day was for Mark Lowry with an outstanding 25-1 winner but that still didn't get him out of the bottom half, Tom Feeney 11-2 & Ian Carpenter also 6-1 were the other two winners. 

13mar20 SURPRISINGLY FEW

Only 2 winners today me at 100-30 and Colin Warmington best of the day 11-2.  Festival over for another year not sure it was classic but for me stand out performances were Envoi Allen, Champ's finish & Goshen

12mar20 UNPICKABLE

Just 4 winners today best was Rod Brown 10-1, Ian Carpenter & Paul Berg both at 100-30 & Robert Logan 9-2 and giving himself a good chance of catching Tom in 3rd in the plate

11mar20 BETTER ON DAY TWO

8 winners today 3 easy ones Me Vince & Stuart Bentham all on Envoi at 4-7, Brian Hammon & Chris Martin both 7-1 which takes Chris into a nice 2nd chasing down the longtime leader.  Others were Gerry McCann 4-1, Michael Brook 6-1 to go back onto the leader board, & finally Mark Sharman with the best of the day 15-2. 

10mar20 DAY ONE

Three winners Vince 2-1 and 10 points Ian Carpenter 6-4, & the leader a very nice 6-1 winner in the opener

09mar20 CHELTERS EVE

Well someone listened to yesterday's plea Chris Martin bangs in a 40-1 winner (trained local to his village). Gloss Slightly knocked off that as the maximum odds are limited to 33-1 until after the 41st bet his was the 38th so bad luck there but still soared up to 2nd place.  The only other winner was Kevin Wood enough to lift him to 3rd even though it was only 5-6

Good luck everyone for Chelters - Cilaos Emery for the big one!

08mar20 WHAT'S HAPPENING

We are all just leaving the race to Roger Dore (who is away) everyone's just slipping back.  Illustrated by today just 3 winners all the same horse at 5-6 and 10 points for Vince, Tom & Robert Logan, so a bad day for Stuart Bentham in the race for the plate.

07mar20 GETTING CLOSE

Assuming that the meeting of sports administrators with the minister doesn't mess things up looks good for this week.  8 Winners today and the best a very impressive 12-1 winner for Ian Carpenter, Tom, Vince & Stuart all picked the same 1-4 winner, Dave Drammer 5-2 to sit 14th just 71p down, Gemma Thompson 4-1, Jason McConkey 7-2 & Robert Logan were the others. 

06mar20 ANOTHER POOR DAY

Just 3 winners Andy Warmington & me 6-5, i finally stopped the rot after 15 consecutive losers & Tom McGarrity 5-6 and that was it!

05mar20 JUST TWO

Chris Martin best of the day with 7-1 and Dave Brammer 5-1 were all that managed a winner today. 

04mar20 BIG WINNER

Chris Pascoe nabs a 20-1 winner to go onto the leader board, Gary Wheeler 8-1, Martin Long 100-30 and Robert Logan 4-7 were the other winners

03mar03 CHELTERS CLOSE

Much less talk today about it not going ahead so getting more excited!  Four winners today Kevin Wood 11-4 to consolidate in 3rd, Martin Long 5-1 t reappear on the leader board, Ian  Carpenter taking no risks with a 1-5 shot and finally Robert Logan 7-4.

02mar20 SOLITARY WINNER

Ian Carpenter bagged the only winner today at 9-4.  Better news on Cheltenham odds for it not going ahead have drifted from 6-4 yesterday to 4-1 tonight - very encouraging

01mar20 DODGY

By that i mean the chance of Cheltenham happening it really is looking in doubt - I suppose we find out after tomorrow's COBRA meeting. Just 2 winners today Vince & Stuart both picked the same 10 pointer at 6-4. 

28feb20 CURRY

Sorry out last night and a few late runners.  Gerry McCann continues his good progress with a 5-1 winner to go second and finally we have someone trying to breach the gap to the leader.  3 other winners and they were Kevin Dighton 9-2 to get back on the leader board Michael Brook 7-2, & Pete Long 1-8!

27feb20 MAGNIFICENT 7

Another decent day headed by Gerry McCann who moved to 3rd spot with an 11-2 winner, Kevin Wood & Tom McGarrity both 4-5, Michael Brook, Mark Nutting & Paul Berg all 4-1, Martin Long 9-2 to move exactly level above Vince and on the leader board so a good day for him!

26feb20 LATE

8 winners half of them the accounted for by the top 4 in the plate who all did the same 5-6 winner for 10 points.  Others were Paul Berg 9-4, Mark Nutting 6-5, Kevin Wood 4-5, & Andy Stevens by far the best of the day with a 10-1 winner. 

25feb20 LOADS OF WINNERS

Well 9 but that seemed like a lot and some decent odds.  Joint top were Chris Pascoe & Nigel Clifford both 8-1, others included Andy Warmington, Michael Brook both 7-1, Gemma Thompson, Rod Brown, Steve Taylor & Richard Pascoe all 7-2, & finally Paul Stobbard 4-1.

24feb20 VERY SLOW AGAIN

Just 16 bets today not unsurprisingly with so many meetings lost again.  Just two winners Gerry McCann 2-1 to move up a spot on the leader board and Andy Warmington 9-2. 

23feb20 BACK

5 winners today Helen Fahey 1-5, Ian Carpenter 4-6 enough to get onto the plate leader board, Paul Berg 5-1 best of the day and enough to get him onto the main leader board, Tom McGarrity 7-4 & Paul Mott after a few forced losers popped back with a 5-2 winner.

22feb20 HI FROM MAJORCA

4 winners on Friday Ian Carpenter evens,  Jason McConkey 7-4, Spenser Mills 6-1 and best of the day at 8-1 for Mark Sharman.

Saturday 5 winners Vince & Stuart both 4-11 Paul Berg 11-8, and the final two players both getting off the mark Dave Klein 13-8 & Andy Stevens 8-1 for best of the day as well

20feb20 GOOD DOB!

20022020 :-) 4 winners today and the leader wins again at 7-2 along with Gerry McCann and Nigel Clifford.  The other winner was Ian Carpenter 9-4. 

19feb20 ANOTHER TEN

10 winners again today Ben Cheetham & Mark Nutting both 6-5, Gemma Thompson & Jason McConkey both 11-8, 4 others all at 1-5 they were Ian Carpenter, Maurice Edgington, Stuart Bentham, & Vince Paige.  Best of the day 7-1 for our leader Roger Dore to move clear at the top and finally Robert Logan who found a 10 pointer at 5-4.

18feb20 SOLO

Just a solitary winner today despite a good card at Punchestown and that was Tom McGarrity at 4-6.

17feb20 TIGHT AT THE TOP

Loads of winner today well 10, top 4 in the plate all on the same horse that won at 4-9, Dave Brammer, Ian Carpenter & Kevin Wood all 10-11, Gary Dighton now just 30p off the lead after his 11-10 winner.  Jason McConkey 11-8, Rod Brown 3-1 and best of the day.

Just £1.30 covers the top 5 & £11 the top 13 - all to play for

16feb20 NAVAN SAVED US

7 winners 4 of them all the same 10 pointer at 45-7 for Vince, me, Robert Logan & Stuart Bentham.  Best of the day and off the mark was Spenser Mills at 8-1, Kevin Wood made good progress up the leader board with a 4-1 winner and finally Colin Warmington 11-8

15feb20 STOP RAINING!

5 winners on this soggy day where i specifically left the turf alone because of the weather and then my horse broke down and didn't finish on the fibresand!! Those that did capture a winner were Vince Paige 10 points to immediately recapture the lead in the plate, Jason McConkey & Steve Taylor both 2-1, Jimmy McGarrity 7-4 and Kevin Wood best of the day but only at 5-2. 

14feb20 VALENTINE

Valentines rather got in the way of the commentary!

7 winners and a new leader in the plate! Stuart Bentham takes over probably only for a while after his 11-8 winner, Tom McGarrity keeps up the good work with his 18th winner at 4-7 the same winner as Ian Carpenter.  Rod Brown 6-4, Gerry McCann & Dave Brammer both 9-4 and best of the day for Gary Pascoe 4-1 to move up a few spots into 6th

13feb20 BIG WINNER

Just one story today that is Kevin Dighton's 28-1 winner to move from the foot of the table to a cash paying position.  A few other winners across the 2 days but nothing too special!

WEDNESDAY UPDATE

Sorry i'm at an event in London tonight so no update until the morning

11feb20 VERY SLOW

But 7 winners from 15 today so a great hit rate.  Joint best of the day for Roger Dore (to go top) and Rob Brown at 13-2, Brian Hammon & Chris Pascoe dormy and off the mark both 4-1,  Gerry McCann 11-8, Ian Carpenter 15-8, and Tom McGarrity 30-100!

10feb20 RESUMED

4 winners today Paul Berg & Paul Mott both 3-1, Paul Stobbart 100-30 & Steve Taylor 2-1

09feb20 ABANDONED SUNDAY

Nice easy day for me then everything off on Sunday.  Back to Saturday where being in the pub from 1pm to 7.30pm rather got in the way of the update!  There were 9 winners with the top 4 in the plate all going for the same 4-5 winner and 10 points each in the plate, I got back on track with Altior at 1-3, Pete Long best of the day and back to the top with his 6-1 winner, Roger Dore & Gerry McCann both 7-2 enough to take Roger 3rd and bring Gerry onto the foot of the leader board.  Finally Ian Carpenter 8-15. 

07feb20 HANDFULL

5 winners Colin Warmington 3-1, Gary Wheeler off the mark and best of the day at 7-1 but he needs a couple more!   Robert Logan 4-1, Stuart Bentham & Vince both 4-9. 

06feb20 ORDINARY

6 winners Andy Warmington & Stuart Bentham both 13-8, Gary Dighton 7-2, Robert Logan & Vince both 8-11 & Steve Taylor 3-1. 

05feb20 NEW LEADER

4 winners they were firstly Tom Feeney 6-1 and takes over at the top, Roger Dore the same 6-1 winner to move 2nd.  The remaining two were Dave Brammer 7-2 & Gemma Thompson 5-2

04feb20 ONLY A PAIR

Just two winners Roger Dore 5-2 & Steve Taylor 11-4

03feb20 QUIET MONDAY

As usual I suppose, just 5 winners and best of the day and off the mark for Kevin Dighton at 8-1, Paul Mott on the leader board for the first time this comp with a nice 5-1 winner, Robert Logan & Stuart Bentham both the same 8-15 winner and finally Tom McGarrity 4-6. 

02feb20 TRIUMPH HURDLE

7 players went for the 1-3 shot and anti post favourite that fell at the last today ruining lots of winning sequences, so that meant only 4 winners today Gary Dighton 8-5 to go 4th, Richard Pascoe 5-4, Steve Taylor off the mark with a 15-8 winners and best of the day for Tom Feeney at 8-1 to go 2nd. 

01feb20 GREAT IRISH RACING

Must go to this Dublin festival when they horses turn up, unlike last year, great racing.  7 winners today Gary Dighton 2-1, Jason McConkey 5-4, me & Tom McGarrity Honeysuckle at 8-11, Paul Berg best of the day 9-2, Robert Logan & Richard Pascoe both 11-10.  Another great day tomorrow

31jan20 BREXIT

Yes we are out 

Just 2 winners Martin Long evens and 6-5 for Robert Logan - charts will follow tomorrow

30jan20 TWO AGAIN

Sorry forgot to write this last night just one winner yesterday and that was Mark Sharman 5-1.  Today another story with 9 winners best of the pack was Chris Martin off the mark in style at 12-1.  The others were me 8-13, Vince & Stuart same horse 4-7, Richard Pascoe & Colin Warmington both 3-1, Mark Nutting 5-2, Kevin Wood 5-4, Gary Dighton 6-4. 

28jan20 JUST A PAIR

Of winners Martin Long 9-2 to go 2nd and Jason McConkey 15-8 and that's it!

27jan20 I DON'T LIKE MONDAY'S

Nor do most of us by the look of it just 4 winners today and they were best of the day for Gemma Thompson and Roger Dore both 3-1, Richard Pascoe at 8-13, & Tom McGarrity were the other 2 winners. 

26jan20 STEADY DAY

Another steady day - top 3 in the plate all went for the 2-5 10 pointer at Naas, I also went short with a 30-100 winner, the other 2 were Gary Pascoe 11-4 to close up in second and best of the day, at just 4-1, was for Dave Brammer. 

25jan20 TOM FOLLOWS UP

Yep 6 winners today and Tom backs up yesterdays best of the day with a nice 8-1 winner to move up to 5th.  The other 5 were me & Tom McGarrity at 4-6 on the super impressive Paisley at Cheltenham, Kevin Wood moved 6th with a 7-2 winner, Gary Pascoe having a good comp so far now 2nd after a 11-8 winner today and finally Stuart Bentham 2-5 to keep Vince honest at the top of the plate. 

24jan20 ANOTHER LARGE WINNER

Tom Feeney got off the mark with a nice 14-1 winner to go back to exactly level Tom McGarrity made progress back onto the leader board with a 4-1 winner as did Roger Dore also at 4-1.  At the reverse odds of 1-4 Kevin Wood & I both nudged slightly forward, other winners were Mark Nutting 15-8,  Gerry McCann 7-4 & Gary Dighton 11-4. 

23jan20 DOUBLE DAY

Not really much to write about across the two days we have only seen 6 winners and nothing special at that Gary Pascoe & I both evens, Stuart Bentham 4-6, Rod brown 5-2, Robert Logan 5-4, and Jason McConkey 10-11.  Sounds like the best option this week was to have sat out!

21jan20 WORSE DAY

Rubbish racing just 3 winners Rob Brown best of the day 7-2 and saddos in the plate 4-7 for 10 points for Vince and Tom!

20jan20 NICE FEW WINNERS

Best of the day for Roger Dore 7-1 to follow up on yesterday's 8-1 winner and go into 5th.  Vince Paige & Stuart Bentham matched off again at 2-7 and 5 points each, Tom McGarrity evens, Michael Brook 5-2, Jimmy McGarrity 11-4, Gary Dighton 13-8 and Gemma Thompson 13-2 were the others on the score sheet.

19jan20 NICE RACING POOR SELECTING!

Just 4 winners today and the stand out was 8-1 for Roger Dore, others were Andy Warmington 4-7, Paul Berg 15-8, Tom McGarrity 5-4.  Excel on its way

18jan20 NICE DAYS RACING

Some good racing today and nice horses on show, reflected in our busiest day with 9 winners, Pete Long & Paul Mott both had a nice consolidating 9-4 winner.  Stuart Bentham & I stuck with the cert at Navan at 2-5, Colin Warmington 7-1, Gary Pascoe 11-10, Paul Stobbart 11-2, Kevin Wood 5-2, and best of the day 8-1 for Martin Long were the others

17jan20 SLOW DAY

Just 4 winners today and they were Gary Pascoe 9-2, Michael Brook 11-2, Mark Nutting 11-8, & Stuart Bentham 8-15 - leave it to you to work out the bet of the day!

16jan20 BIG WINNER

The first of the comp and it goes to Pete Long using the sophisticated name of son criteria :-) but hey 20-1 and top so who am I.  6 other winners and they were,  Gary Dighton bringing up a treble 7-4, Gerry McCann 9-2, Mark Sharman off the mark with a 7-1 winner, Richard Pascoe 7-2, Tom McGarrity 7-4 & Vince Paige continuing his strong start in the plate with  from and another even money winner.

15jan20 STEADY

Just 4 winners on Wednesday to report, 3 of them were the same even money 10 pointer for Vince, Stuart Bentham and Andy Warmington, leaving Gary Dighton as the best of the day on 9-2 to follow up his opener at 11-4 on Tuesday

13jan20 POOR MONDAY

As usual for a Monday if there is nothing doing in Ireland then the racing is pretty shocking.  Did I hear a rumour that the CEO of Cheltenham is thinking of 5 days - gulp kidneys, wallet and back all starting to twitch already!

Just 5 winners today they were top of the day Brian Hammon at 11-2 to go 4th, Colin Warmington 7-2, Dave Brammer & Gerry McCann both 11-8 and Jimmy McGarrity 4-1.  Top 6 in the plate all sat out. 

12jan20 BIGGEST WINNER SO FAR

Gerry McCann pops in with a 9-1 winner to go second there were 7 other winners as well today Gemma Thompson & me 7-2, Helen Fahey 4-7, Jimmy McGarrity & Paul Berg both 11-8, Martin Long 3-1 & finally Tom McGarrity 8-15.

Excel will be circulated later tonight

11jan20 LOADS OF WINNERS

Well other than me!  11 in total today Andy Warmington top of the day with 15-2 winner, closely followed by Kevin Wood 7-1, Brain Hammon 3-1, a very lucky 5-1 winner for Gary & Richard Pascoe & Helen Fahey 5-4, Michael Brook, Robert Logan & Paul Berg all 9-2, Stuart McLeod 4-1, and finally Vince again who is still 100% with 4 from 4 winners.

10jan20 LATE UPDATE

Just 4 winners on Friday Ian Carpenter 5-4, Vince 8-11  Stuart Bentham 5-6, and Mark Lowry 11-10

10jan20 ILL

Sorry unwell yesterday i'll get to the Friday shortly

09jan20 BUSIER AGAIN

2 bets today although we lost 2 at Leicester best of the day was Martin Long 7-1 to go joint top.  Vince picked up the 1st 10 pointer as well to go top in the plate

08jan20 SAME

22 players today just 4 winners best of the day Mark Nutting 7-2, closely followed by me at 3-1, the other two were Ian Carpenter 6-4, &  Tom McGarrity 11-8.

07jan20 BIT BUSIER

22 bets today and 5 winners and the first reasonable one of the comp for Robert Logan 7-1, others were Vince Paige & Stuart Bentham both 1-2, Pete Long 6-5 & Tom McGarrity 8-11.

Mark Sharman couldn't resist after all so we are now up to 41

06jan20 QUIET ONE

Just 13 bets and one winner Ian Carpenter 8-11, gained another player today count is now 40. 

05jan20 OPENING DAY

Just 12 bets today from the now 39 paid players - I'm expecting more to join.

Those that got off to a winning start were Roger Dore 11-8, Kevin Wood & Mark Lowry both 8-11 and me and Tom McGarrity both 1-4, at least they weren't losers!

SUNDAY 5TH JANUARY

We're off looks like a small field this time only 37 players so far we usually get a few stragglers but prize structure will clearly be a little more limited this time

Good luck all