Calling marble

[Gerald]

I’m bored. I need a new project.

I’m mostly betted out on the Melbourne Cup, and I’m twiddling my thumbs waiting for the Hennessy.

I had a look at the field for the Monaveen at Fontwell, and I didn’t feel inspired.

I suppose I could have a go at betting on AW maiden races.

Juvenile Hurdlers
2m H’cap Hdles
Creating my own form ratings, or speed ratings, but I don’t really have the wherewithal in terms of technology know-how or time.
Making a study of the Breeders’ Cup races
2yos (Problem with GSV was that it was taking up too much time.)
I could take the day off, watch the Brazilian Grand Prix, and then tomorrow the entries for next Saturday will be out, and I could give them a good seeing to.
Following the 2yos in Australia.
Doing a study of which sires are producing winners on which surface in the USA, or maybe in Britain.

[Gerald]

I suppose I could do a study of the Oaks. But I’m sure many people have been there before, and not come up with much.

[Gerald]

Don’t get me wrong though. I back winners – I just never tip any of them up on this forum!

Not too keen on your list. (What I mean is that I’m getting a little tired of all these lists of horses to follow, and it is a bit of a hassle keeping track of them, and annoying when you miss one running.) I’ll have a look at it this evening, and start posting profiles of each one.

I know Johnston is opposable on the AW. Also learnt in January that odds-on favs are very difficult to knock out of the frame, so the plan is to look for two outsiders when the fav is odds against, and if the fav is odd-on and I want to oppose it, put it into the 2nd box in an exacta.

Let Them Eat Cake is the best-bred horse in the race. Only problems are that she’s a filly, she ain’t learnt to race yet, and this is her third race so they may be setting her up for h’caps. I’ve never investigated the last phenomenon, so I don’t know how much truth there is to that.

6-2 exacta
6-2-9 trifecta
6-2-5 trifecta

However, at some stage I need to start backing big, or I’ll never achieve anything. Yesterday in the Champion Stakes was an opportunity to back big, as everyone was saying it was a Group 2 race, and last year’s second was running in it.

[moehat]

I thought it was just me that used race studying as a ‘procrastination technique’ which I turned to after I stopped smoking…….[was in my school report at grammar school…Maureen procrastinates..was quite impressed until I looked it up in the dictionary…..]. However, it is seriously addictive and, if it wasn’t for forums such as this, rather anti social..don’t you get bored on that computer, say S.O…nope, says I…].

[Gerald]

I’m anally retentive.

There’s no way I’ll be able to get down to S by Tuesday!

[Gerald]

I know Johnston is opposable on the AW.

Yes well, that bit was right.

Let Them Eat Cake came 3rd. Whether I’ve broke even or made money depends upon what the Tote Place Dividend is.

edit: £7.30

[Aragorn]

Kikos

I’m about to purchase a share in this horse. Hopefully your list has at least one improver

[moehat]

You know, marb; I haven’t got the faintest idea why I wrote that! It was just the flat handicaps that I was fascinated by during the summer [err, to the point of obsession methinks]. When I find out something new I just want to learn everything I can about it and usually burn myself out after a while. There are some good horses on your list. I rather fance Kornati Kid ew in the Welsh National. You’d have had a nice few bets if you’d backed them [eg Go Native]. I like looking at lists of horses to follow; someone did a good one on Yew Tree racing last season but they don’t seem to have bothered this year. I do two jobs, both of which are a bit solitary, and in the real world I don’t seem to know many people these days as interesting and articulate as the people on this forum. I had an amazing internet friend who was a writer; we talked every day about anything and everything..he died suddenly a year ago, and I guess I’m trying to fill the gap.

[Gerald]

Sorry, Marble, I’m not up to this. I don’t normally bet, and this would involve not just looking at 5 horses, but at 5 races! Given that I struggle to look at half-a-dozen horses in a day for Big Race Discussion threads, and I’ve already done today’s quota . . .

edit: 4 races, not 5.

[Gerald]

Edit, erm Tidal Bay? That must be the Peterborough. Won’t Deep Purple win that race, if he is running?

[Gerald]

I’m not disciplined/organised enough to do that. I think you can do it on the Irish racing site as well.

I console myself that not only do I miss certain winners that I fancy, but I also miss numerous losers!

[moehat]

Got my fingers crossed that you backed Warnes Way ew marb.

[Tor mentor]

One never sees kids playing marbles nowadays.

[Gerald]

There’s still a few of those that I’ve never heard of!

Maybe 2010-11?

[Gerald]

I saw the winning list in the NH 10 to follow list yesterday, and it seems seductively easy. Haven’t got it to hand at the moment, so you’ll have to make do with this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6OuyJKn … =1&index=2

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