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It's just struck me that we haven't seen any new members in here for a very long time now. I know internet forums are less popular now with people using Twitter, but it's hard to believe nobody is registering. I know we were taken over 12 months ago. Is there anyone on here that has...

We don't really do anything on here anymore, but there's are a few free competitions to enter, and this certainly looks like one of the better ones. Simple, free to enter, and offering prizemoney. I'm going to give it a go. ​​​​​​​https://pickapunt.com/cheltenham-festival

Hi guys. A bit of an announcement. I’m taking part in a live preview night at Towcester Racecourse on the 3rd March. None of the same old rubbish, we’re doing the handicaps! It should finish around 9pm so accessible if you live within a couple of hours of the course. Hopefully you’ll like the...

Along with Cheltmental and Jaime Wrenn, I recently recorded a whole bunch of post-Christmas Cheltenham antepost updates, which I'm posting for you guys who like watching them. All feedback is good feedback. If you have any thoughts, views, agree, or disagree with any of the suggestions let me...

An excellent article, well worth a read, published in the Racing Post and written by an capall. Another fine piece Colm, and good to see you being published in the RP...

I know some of you are into racing podcasts. So I thought I'd let you know I'm doing a live video preview of the upcoming two day Cheltenham meeting at 8.30pm this evening. It's on the Cheltmental Youtube Channel, so essentially you need to go to Youtube type Cheltmental into the search bar and...

I've decided to start some commercial jump racing syndicates, and I've bought a very nice new horse to kick-off with. The horse I bought is The King Of Ryhope, which was previously owned by Jared Sullivan and Chris Giles, who have had a parting of the ways with joint ownership. Unable to agree...

Hi Col Can you clear your inbox please. Thanks

To make things simpler and so those of us that want to keep this going, I've set up a Private League in the Tote Ten To Follow website. One entry is free, so anyone that doesn't want to pay for additional entries just needs to register and enter their free stable. To keep things fair let's keep...

I thought it might not be a bad idea to put a list together of horses that missed the Festival for various reasons. They often get overlooked and some never come back, but there can be a bit of value in there too. Just add them in here and discuss, and I'll edit them back in the opening post...

Following on from the Altior thread I posted earlier, and the ‘lay’ part of the ‘back, lay, ew’ thread, it would be interesting to get views from forumites on which favourites you can see being beaten? There are plenty that are short enough that may be vulnerable, and history tells us they won’t...

An Cappall has put Altior up as a lay on the other thread, and his thinking could be in line with something that’s been nagging away at me too. Now don’t get me wrong, I love the horse. He’s a true Champion and, if anything, still a little underrated. But there’s a big but for me going in to...

With Skybet now going no runner no bet it's a good time to get this up, particularly as it's useful for getting some good ideas. These are all the multiples and singles I have so far including possible returns and, whilst there are one or two ropey looking multiples (Laurina in the mares for...

I reckon we saw a pretty decent Festival this season with lots of nice novices going in to open company next season. Given we had a Gold Cup to savour and we've got a worthy Champion Chaser with Footpad to challenge him it could be even better next season. I started my annual end of season...

Whilst I'm not instinctively a favourite backer, I can't shake the feeling that we've got more solid favourites than ever and the bookies are going to be running for cover on days three and four of the Festival. I've been running through my own thoughts and selections and I can see almost all...

Which of the three do we think will have the most winners at the Festival? The money will be for Mullins and Elliott I'd imagine, but I think Henderson may well eclipse the pair of them. He'll probably have the smallest team of the three but I can see him having at least four winners, and...

I thought it might be an idea to get this thread up good and early this year. There have been plenty of gems on it in previous years, and I must admit I generally like trawling through it for ideas of antepost value. I can't see a thread for it yet, and we usually get started on this when we hit...

It was good to see Christian Williams send his first runner out as a trainer at Haydock on Saturday. Im not sure where his yard is, but he will add to the compliment of South Wales trainers who consistently make their mark each season. I notice he's got a good hand at Ffos Las today with a...

For those of you that hold stats, does anyone hold stats for returning winners and returning placers by number and percentage. What I'm trying to put together is hurdles to hurdles, hurdles to chases, chases to chases, handicaps to handicaps, graded to graded, graded to handicaps, handicaps to...

You don't need to read this guys if you don't want to. It's partly a reminder to myself of how my ante post portfolio has worked though and what lessons to take from it. Also as a reminder of what I still need to do. That said there may be one or two things in here that you might consider for...