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We’re in Villamartin, Lee - about 40 minutes south-west of Alicante airport.

The cost is probably manageable if you're a day-tripper from the South Coast, Darren.......but if you're from the frozen North and there for the week, you will easily shoot-out more than a grand between travel, digs and entry to the racecourse, before you've had a bet, a drink or a bite to eat.

After attending probably 80+% of the meetings between 1994 and 2022, this is the second year in a row that I'm heading out to Spain for golf/racing with three pals (two of them regular Festival attendees themselves), rather than go to Cheltenham. It's a decision that hasn't caused me a second's...

Free is still too expensive for this shitbox.

WPM has the best spotters in France, and the owners with the deepest pockets. Everything else largely takes care of itself (though I’m in no way doubting his ability to train, race-plan etc).

Could be, Outsider - though it’s a bold approach for a horse that was beaten 25L in her only course start over hurdles. And even if she has, it’s not like she’s the only horse that will have been campaigned exactly that way for the Ultima. It just feels (to me, at any rate) a bit early to be...

Is it maybe the case that Apple Away is not as good as most hoped she might be? The early-season buzz about her hasn’t really been justified at any point, imo, and she wouldn’t be the first G1 winner at Aintree who took advantage, whilst the opposition were recovering from a reasonably quick...

They’re usually published to the great unwashed a day after the press have seen them. The reason for this is unclear.

Surely ante-post rules apply if you back the winner now i.e. no R4?

Quiet punting day as this Kempton card has never been kind to me, and I don’t really like The Eider card much either. Have Arclight (5’s) and Fiercely Proud (7/2) in Singles/Doubles at Kempton, and Gold Clermont (10’s) and Forward Plan (8’s) in the big handicap chases, with all four in a small...

Bit late this one, but UnitSixtyFour (Lingfield 14:15) gets his ground, has won a couple of chases, trainer is bang in form, and goes in first-time CP’s. 11/2 good enough for me in a weak event with an odds-on jolly going first time over fences under Rules.

I don’t know how practical that is, barjon, given bookmakers probably sponsor 90+% of races.

I don’t think encouraging people to blow their brains out is necessarily contributing to the thread, reet.

Having backed Galvin at reasonably fancy prices last season, and confidently predicted a massive showing to friends and family (you know the rest), I will reluctantly have to have a saver again this year. FWIW, I think Corach Rambler could easy win this again from the higher rating (had stacks...

FWIW, Timeform give Tullyhill 144p which puts him 3rd in novice hurdle ratings behind Ballyburn (153p) and Caldwell Potter (147p but doesn’t go to Cheltenham). Mystical Power and Slade Steel next best - both on 143p. I agree, Trunch - it wouldn’t be a massive shock if an unconsidered rag won...

You’re in a grand mood, I see. :lol:

You might be right, Euro, but it’s not a deep Supreme if Ballyburn goes in the BB, and Tullyhill will have his chance, I reckon. Given his connections, I would certainly expect him to start shorter than the 6/1 I have in the double, and Ballyburn would definitely start shorter than the 9/4 I...

Tullyhill: £500 Win - Supreme Novices (7/1 William Hill)

I’ve taken a shade over 21/1 about the Tullyhill (Supreme) / Ballyburn (Ballymore) double. Tullyhill only has the Supreme entry at the Festival, and the theory is that he was sufficiently good today that it allows connections to spring Ballyburn for the longer event. I confess I was really...

Jit Langy: £1500 Win (County Hurdle) - 16/1 with Bet365. Edit: I’m told this is the NRNB price and that the all-in price is 25/1 which I’d like to take if poss.