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“I admit I am only a very moderately successful punter”
Any punter who keeps their head above water deserves respect.
I had an Economist for a father who talked incessantly about marginal cost, opportunity cost, and ran a cost/benefit analysis of virtually every decision he made in his life – including, hilariously, divorcing his second wife!
Though only a moderately successful (in profit over time) punter himself, myvDad had respect for any punter who listed racing and betting as their 24/7/365 passion and lost less than £1,000 a year.
“Imagine how much more they would have spent has they been into golf, mountain biking, or big boys toys like motor bikes, speed boats etc instead?” he always used to argue.
“A hobby you love all the year round that costs you less than a grand is great value for money for your extra disposable income,” he further opined.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"South African draw bias…
The Vaal racecourse is near to Johannesburg plays host to the Grade 2 Heritage Cup (1,450m) and Grade 3 August Stakes (1,200m) each year and is known for its friendly atmosphere and slightly more countrified surroundings than the neighbouring courses and is and perhaps represents a good starting point for those new to the sport. If you want to experience the long 1600 metre straight you can get a flight in low season May ( December high season) for circa £250 it’s 5600 miles from Lingfield’s wet uninspiring car park.
All unaccompanied children and young children couples, particularly those under ten, will be vetted at the entrance for unauthorized paperwork.
Advice…
You can get sudden deluges there and abandonments so bring a brolly with your bins.
P.s. horses generally love running in the 🌧️.
pps.. for those afraid of the air it takes 175 hours :( about three weeks @ 8 hours a day to drive there plus the channel crossing. If you wanna walk the long yellow brick road it will take 2600 hours ( longer for kids (shorter legs ) and that will get you there by September next year – three months before high season !
‘CHECK OUT THE NEW YORK MYTH’
‘the Creator looked upon this land with special favor and reached down to bless it, leaving the imprint of His hand, hence, the Finger Lakes.’
Yeah smooch around finger lakes for a week late summer 🌞 is best and you’ll take in possibly the best most breathtaking country on God’s earth. Mark Twain liked it enough to make it is home and it is reputed a guy called Huck Finn cleared his bins every Tuesday.
The racetrack opened in 62 and 14 mill was wagered on the first dirt day and 12000 racing nuts attended. I call them nuts because a lot were glued to the slots. They have simulcast – buffet is rather overpriced so a salmon and cucumber 🥪 wedged into your binocular case might be a better but possibly more embarrassing alternative. 1600 miles less than the Vaal so good for cheapskates. You could visit both tracks. No walking to Finger Lakes though the Atlantic is in the way 😲.
The problem with God’s fingers they may tempt you to stay forever. It’s a bit like Shangri La.p.s If you do stay for ever settle up your affairs in Blighty – best tell people you’ve been sectioned in a U.S jail or you’re in rehab – they’ll think your bonkers anyway upping sticks and leaving your roots.
Settle those affairs as best you can as advised by Twain below .“An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.”
Whether Tinman has gathered and stretched his weary metal joints out on beautifully eye pleasing Sardinian sands and is just now blinking at the flat calm turquoise sea which in turn, is blinking the reflective sun back at him, or rather, he is bustling through a busy Moroccan Street market looking for a sardine stall, and this will be a personal matter of choice for him. His family will no doubt enjoy these escapades away from the racecourse and the midnight oil burner.
These are uncertainties but what we can say is Tinman has avoided the stress of deliberating on the subtleties of form embedded in the Finger Lakes card to be played out dramatically in New York this evening. It is a fine card and one to roll your ‘R’s at.There are eleven finger lakes which kinda proves Gods hand must have some abnormality, which might give all of us all some hope that he might be forgiving of the odd. These eleven vast water deposits range from forty miles in width to 640 feet deep. If you can’t win money on the track you might win in the lake.
I was reflecting on the blinking blue green sea in Sardinia – the bustling fez markets with the finest Sardines on the top tip of Africa and the deep god given lakes in the big 🍏.
Who wins – I know not ?Might it possibly be the outsider the fourth contender and the spills and thrills on the New York track ?
it’s a battle of equine superpower which of the battling tRRRio with Sardinia left in the stalls as they approach the final bend ? it’s neck and neck nose and flaring nostril BUT the maRRREe’getting up
– She’s getting to the boys she’s busting the boys theMaRRRRRRRRE’s stolen the nightcap and WHAT a finale !!!Definition of a spill : two horses going for the gap but the younger horse gives way and there’s a big AAHHH from the crowd as the favourite concedes.
Alternatively a lake letting it’s waters run free and wild and escaping their confinement!
Full Result
1.Gotham Girl
short head
2. Africa loves ya
neck
3. Lake’s escape
4. Peaches on beaches ( left in the stall)Good luck Tin Man. Tis a rare punter who knows his weaknesses, and a rarer one who acts on them.
“Time is more important to me”
Well Tinman this is not a practical solution exactly but if you were to place yourself just outside the event horizon of Sagittarius A*, and you stood there for one whole minute, 700 years would pass by because time passes so much slower in the gravitational field there than it does on Earth.
You write that there are no shortcuts in relation to form study. Most people would agree with this statement – not I though !
The Tinman tissue
The max factor
The midnight oil
hours and hours and hours of…
It certainly doesn’t fit
easily into the first chapter
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riches, however it has to be said that data models that prey on pure mathematics can sometimes create something of some relative beauty, that may either stand readily on their own two feet, like a piece of robotic Kraftwerk, or if they are bent out of shape, nuanced, and with their extremities stretched, tweaked, and twisted, then do hold your breath, and please look at it Edith, you may indeed be witnessing the digital metamorphosing into something akin to an artwork, or something truly inspirational, even a newly modified version of Tchaikovsky’s 4th that readily wins stand up applause.Bill, Bird, Veitch etc al, all very predictably went down the same logical rabbit hole. Big problem is people love rabbit holes and soon they had company. That’s Kraftwerk!
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