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I loved the bit about the Melling Road drive. Was invested already, but that made the investment even more worthwhile. Chaumi is - perhaps - easily pleased.

Keep an eye on Pawras' posts if you're into databases and data analysis. He runs his own.

Welcome Archi You gave me a few nice winners, and even have one or two sons or daughters still running in Hong Kong

Welcome mate, post away!!

it’s probably due to lack of any deep enough ability to interact with said platform ( which I do have to say I - perhaps unreasonably - abhor, except for use cases such as this), but I don’t know what the username to follow is. The video links don’t show it for me. A search for ‘Ian Davies’...

Your Twitter appears to restrict who can view, Ian. At least it's restricting me. If it's easy and/or non-time-consuming, can you grant access? same username If it's hassle, obviously don't worry.

But it's fundamentally a questionable approach. Assuming you fancy each one as strongly as any others, why should horse 1, 2, 3, etc on day 2 have any more (or less) chance of winning (or losing) than horses 2,3,4,5,6 on day 1 (assuming you had horse 1 a winner and stopped there). Not knowing...

Well, our Fallon didn't really turn up today. Seems he was unruly in the parade, I've never watched him pre-race before so don't know if that's normal behaviour. It's possible he got too worked up - a watch next time might be advisable. Anyway, some good racing coming up in HK over the coming...

As far as the Tote goes, one thing you can be sure of is there's plenty of cash floating around in the pools. Especially at Sha Tin meetings. Not too many fears of my level bets dropping the returns.

It's worth watching out for ex-Irish runners sold to run over there. It's big money stuff in general, so a fair bet they went for plenty of cash. That's one of the reasons I mentioned the 3YO in today's 2.50 - ex O'Callaghan. They can take some time to acclimatize and/or find the right level...

haha good luck to us then. 'Invested' doesn't even come close. It should be fun in the final furlong when he'll probably still be two-thirds back, but with that withering run already underway. The 9 furlongs should mean that last one is a long (enough) one.

Been watching racing in Hong Kong for a couple of years now, plenty of good-priced winners up to 80-1 had and to be had. Sire interest plays a big part for me, as usual. The formats, race days, spread of good class races, and the general race classes are all easily understood once you get your...

At the prices, Sixmilebridge looks best value to me (in an 'anything can win this' race). Ben Pauling will have been gutted to lose him, and there are no obvious signs that the yard switch did anything negative for ongoing prospects. If he's not quite up to this level, a good handicap seems...

Could be anything, and maybe is partly dependent on where you're looking and what the context is of those moves across (and in comparison with) different books. You will only ever have (access to) wildly incomplete information on this, but you might be able to draw/guess some (very loose)...

If Ian does actually keep any written notes, I suspect they're rolled up and cemented securely on-person where the sun doesn't shine. And it's a fair bet it's significantly higher than 5,561-1 any of us would ever want to be going there 😧 Although I guess a heavy losing run might spark some...

One more and it's a rewrite of 'The Famous Five Have It Right Off In Chaddesley'. Not suitable for children! And the yacht bought with proceeds of movie rights to be named something like 'Talking Horses Afloat'

I'll likely do Chaddesley on the 28th, if you can fit another Point virgin into the group

Ayr 12.45 1st Dec Kinneston Nick's L'Arme de Bonheur looked up against it with the three principles in this. Nick reported the 4 year old as being a bit weak in his previous hurdle start, with the heavy ground here likely to illustrate the necessity for some further strengthening-up...

Mr Coffee appeals at 16-1, amongst an uninspiring set of odds in general. Ran a great race until tiring in the 2023 National and showed recently that the spark is still there. Has run several races that would put him close to half a dozen lengths up on plenty of this field.

Stunning stuff, Ian. And massive congratulations to everyone who had it off on the back of the Master Davies masterpiece. I imagine the scenes on course from a small group of punters - plus those in a few living rooms - were somewhat reminiscent of several high-profile global annual celebrations...