28feb22 STELLAR PERFORMANCE

This could be the best comp ever we have had 216 bets between us to a level £1 stake and we are overall more than £60 up with the top 22 players all positive - well done well except me of course all I have managed to contribute from 51st spot is -£6.00 :-)

Today saw 5 winners best was Dave Klein in the last race 10-1 and straight into 4th, 3 players all managed to pick an 8-1 winner they were Steve Carter, Terry Matthews & Mark Sharman that leaves just tom McGarrity 5-6 matching his record of 5 from 6 so far.

Never seen the result in the 7.30 tonight before, 2 dead heats in the same race for 2nd & for 4th 

27feb22 SWITCHED OFF

Just 3 winners today and two of them for the Vince/Stuart Plate leaders 5-6 &evens respectively.  The only other winner was Frank Tubman 6-4 who maintained his 100% hit rate the only others yet to have a loser are Stuart & Ben Cheetham, ignoring those yet to start (2 left).

Excel on its way

26feb22 QUICK

10 winners off to the Rugby at the pub - sorry 

25feb22 ANOTHER BIG ONE

Mark Nutting's turn today 22-1 to zoom 2nd, he was one of just 5 winners the other 4 were Jimmy McGarrity  5-1, Gary Dighton 100-30, Mark Lowry 4-9, Richard Pascoe 9-2.

Familiar look to the plate even at this early stage :-(

24feb22 DRAMATIC STUFF

Our first super winner of the comp 33-1 for Mark Quinn clearly nicely clear after just 3 bets.  7 winners in total Stuart Bentham 4-9, Tom McGarrity 13-8 & Jason McConkey also 13-8 all brought up a treble and kept their 100% records.  The remaining 3 were Vince Paige 13-8, Tom Feeney 15-2 to make the leader board and finally Gary Dighton off the mark with a 7-4 winner.

23feb22 SAME AGAIN

 Another 8 winners today and an even better set so this comp has got off to a very impressive start.  Best of the day today was Dave Brammer 10-1, Ian Walters & Tom Elliston both 8-1, Paul Berg 11-2, Tom McGarrity & Stuart Bentham 2 different 4-9 winners, Jason McConkey 9-4, & finally Pat Quinn 11-8.

Well done 

22feb22 THAT'S BETTER

8 winners today so much more in the swing.  Best were for Jason McConkey & Tom McGarrity both with 6-1 winner to go joint 2nd.  three players had the same 11-4 winner they were Pete Feeney, Paul Berg, & Ian Walters, Mark nutting 7-2, Stuart Bentham 4-11 and Ian Carpenter 4-9 were the others. 

Looks like we will be 51 as heard from Tom LJ today and he's in 

22feb22 CHAMP AGAIN

 The defending champ launches his bid to retain the trophy with a cracking 10-1 winner to sit clear at the top that was just 1 of only 2 winners on what was another pretty slow day with only 18 bets.  The other winner was rookie Mark Newton with his first ever bet at 6-4.  

Defo up to 50 players now just one more to pay

20feb22 AND WE'RE OFF

Super slow opening day just 15 selections with 3 winners Frank Tubman & Pat Quinn both 3-1 and Richard Pascoe 9-4.  

We are on 49 players with two who have said they are playing but are yet to pay - Chris Martin & Tom Lloyd Jones so could be 51.

Still space for others and really good to see a few guys returning who first played long ago, Terry Matthews #129, Tom Elliston #150, John Heneghan #143, Pat Quinn #97 and Ian Walters #68.  Ian last played in comp #32 in December 2012 - welcome back to the fold, where have you all been?

Excel on its way when I have worked out all the email addresses, shout if you don't get it later today 

19feb22 COMP EVE

Here we are for the 49th time current target is 50 players but still waiting for 6/7 or so to pay so may come up short.  More welcome if you want to invite anyone.   

We welcome so far 4 debutants, Mark Newton,  Stuart Proud, Tom Stanley and Brendan Bergin our second player from overseas (Ireland) so that might encourage us to celebrate the end of the 50th comp over there although Punchestown festival in 2023 may be too far out.  

If we get to 50 we will be paying down to 8th place in the main comp and top 4 in the plate.  A few stats 1814 is the number of entries across all 48 comps from 223 different players - that's 110,954 individual naps.  Recording 17,807 winners or just 16% hit rate 

Good luck all