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Good luck mate im not best looking cheerleader you could have hoped for but, I am the one you've got and I've got my pom poms at the ready for when you start turning this bad run around.
 
NH_Andy said:
Going for another Skelton runner today with Listentoyourheart being far too big at 10/1 in the 15:17 Chepstow
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Agree. The attempt to step her up in trip last season didn’t work out and she should go well back at 2m
 
Suffering a knock in confidence I'm trying something completely different but might as well carry it on here because I won't stop until I post a winner:LOL:.

2 tomorrow @ Mkt Rasen in the 14:51 - Taking 7/1 BOG now on Parc d'Amour and will look to back Take it Easy on the exchanges shortly before the off holding out for a high price - won't take anything lower than 10.

If less than 7 run I'll pull out and hedge Parc d'Amour.
 
That's the definition of grim. One low class race on a gloomy afternoon and they both ran like refrigerators.

Throwing 2 pts on Victory Club 16/1 in the 16:20 @ Wetherby tomorrow. I can forgive one bad run and he only found one too good over 2m 5f before that over fences. The winner and 3rd of that race have both won since and he's not racing much tomorrow as he switches back to hurdles.

Not much value in Western Fold 5/4 in the BetVictor chase but I think he'll win and he's so short he might just give me a winner!
 
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Quixall Crossett said:
The horse is called Crookbarrow and for the few people on here who know me and the lads from the previous forum i was on, this horse is just my type and fits in with my MO.
Low grade jumps races and horses with a little bit of something hidden away in the form or a snippet of some sort is what i have always concentrated on and there is a little something in this horse that tells me that it may just turn out to be a bit better than a 71 rated chaser. It will be having its first run for the pair and i have no doubt whatsoever that they will improve it. The horse was running in points earlier in the year and won a race at Parham although it did finish alone and was also placed on three other occasions. The form doesnt account for a great deal but then again the opposition will be no great shakes either. And if the pair can coax that improvement out of it, it my turn out to be a well handicapped horse.
But the thing that caught my eye was its third pacing at Peper Harrow last time out in May. The winner that day was a horse called Steppingstone and this thing started life at Willie Mullins yard. It was beaten at 4/11 in a bumper first time out at Kilbeggan before being placed at Ballinrobe and Killarney before finishing down the field at Listowel which turned out to be his last run for the yard. It came over this side of the water to join Nick Wright and won two of its five points and could possibly have won another.
The interesting thing here is that the horse has now gone back to Willie Mullins so there must be some thought that the horse is not a lost cause. And everybody and his dog will know that Willie will get plenty of improvement from it. It may just have needed a bit more time. Who knows ?
But the form may not turn out to be that bad and i am certain that Ollie and Josh will improve Crookbarrow. And then that mark of 71 will look very generous indeed.
Who knows ?????
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Crookbarrow is down to run again - 2 pounds out of the handicap - in tomorrow's 4:58 two and a half miles conditional jockeys' handicap hurdle at Worcester. His two runs for the Greenall and Guerriero team have been 7/10 at Bangor ( though not beaten very far ), and a 10/10 effort at Market Rasen over 3 miles when the vet said he finished lame. 7/2 then which is a bit strange for a horse with such poor form figures. His price has lengthened from 14s to 16/1 while I have been typing this. Tristan Durrell rides.

Also in the race is Locked Down Lad ( 12/1 ) for Joe Tickle to be ridden by Rian Corcoran (7). It's an unlikely reverse forecast.
 
Jayhawk said:
Also in the race is Locked Down Lad ( 12/1 ) for Joe Tickle to be ridden by Rian Corcoran (7).
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I thought Corcoran gave Dalileo enough to do at Kelso but, that arguable either way tactical lapse aside, the ability is there as he showed in Points and he's only going to get better.

The horse is going blue all over the Oddschecker village and I think the fella is good value for his seven in this (even against riders as accomplished as Jack Andrews) and target job claimer material in the eyes of more than one trainer.
 
NH_Andy said:
That's the definition of grim. One low class race on a gloomy afternoon and they both ran like refrigerators.

Throwing 2 pts on Victory Club 16/1 in the 16:20 @ Wetherby tomorrow. I can forgive one bad run and he only found one too good over 2m 5f before that over fences. The winner and 3rd of that race have both won since and he's not racing much tomorrow as he switches back to hurdles.

Not much value in Western Fold 5/4 in the BetVictor chase but I think he'll win and he's so short he might just give me a winner!
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Western Fold was pulled yesterday so taking the same odds today on Bel Amigo in the first @ Carlisle. Victory Club placed.
 
Are you still backing win only at 2% of the bank Andy ? Do your stakes remain as 2% of your starting bank or do you reduce stakes as the bank shrinks and visa versa as it gets bigger ?
 
Well good luck Andy I know you can turn it around ive had plenty of runs this bad down the years where I couldnt seem to buy a winner and left the crossbar in splinters. Proper season ramps up soon so im sure it'll get better.
 
Danny said:
Well good luck Andy I know you can turn it around ive had plenty of runs this bad down the years where I couldnt seem to buy a winner and left the crossbar in splinters. Proper season ramps up soon so im sure it'll get better.
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Thanks Danny,

My whole betting history involves tinkering around with different weighting considerations (for tissue), a winning streak, hitting the buffers and then evolving. Rinse and repeat. Last season was just amazing though. To the point I was having to get to the tracks to get bets on which was completely unpractical with the day job. Seems the aggregators have reeled me back in as per after I'd gotten ahead of myself, starting this thread right at the buffers 😅.

I'll keep the thread going though because I'm bound to land a few at some point and hopefully get a run going.

Can't wait to get stuck into the races to come and to seeing Ascending Lark run again. Haven't seen any of the usual publications marking her as one to watch but I think she's destined for the top table.
 
You might be waiting a bit :)

“We are going to stick to hurdles. The plan is a Grade 2 Mares' Hurdle at Ascot in the middle of January. That race will tell us if she is good enough for the Mares' Hurdle (at Cheltenham) or if she's just a handicapper.”
 
barjon said:
You might be waiting a bit :)

“We are going to stick to hurdles. The plan is a Grade 2 Mares' Hurdle at Ascot in the middle of January. That race will tell us if she is good enough for the Mares' Hurdle (at Cheltenham) or if she's just a handicapper.”
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Yes, I read Ascot was the plan. She'll win the Mares Hurdle in the spring 💪.
 
Minella Rescue available at 6/1 in the 15:32 @ Uttoxeter. (2pts)

Looks like price assumes the trip isn't ideal but he won over 2 mile twice on the flat as a 5yo.
 
Andy im feeling your pain mate. I think anyone would of struggled to find the winner of that ???
 
Racing Twitter discussing which race horses will go for at Cheltenham already. Absolutely mind numbing. Especially when said races in topic are both f$%^ing handicaps.

No entries, no weights, 6 months away. f%*& off.
 
Double J said:
Racing Twitter discussing which race horses will go for at Cheltenham already. Absolutely mind numbing. Especially when said races in topic are both f$%^ing handicaps.

No entries, no weights, 6 months away. f%*& off.
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One hundred f$%^ing per cent THIS.^

I didn't really think much about what racing might look like in 2025 when I was a young man back in the day, but not in my worst dystopian nightmare did I imagine it would be a bunch of sockless Peaky Blinders wannabes obsessed with one meeting to the exclusion of all else.

Robocop, The Running Man, Total Recall, the Mad Max movies - none of the future shock movies in the 80s envisaged anything as awful as this!
 
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