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What an absolute balloon this guy is!
I quite like his character and he’s good fun but Jesus lord and Mary he’s a horrendous gambler!
How on earth does he manage to make it pay?
Between him and David Jennings they managed to tip one winner from 28 races during the festival. His daily column during the week advised us he was giving mighty potter the full works.
His Saturday column told us he was planning to steal a few quid by backing burglar in the opener at kempton who got turned over at 1/3!
His tips are so bad it’s almost funny how he can get it so wrong. If you were throwing darts at the paper you’d get more right than him who’s apparently a professional! Woeful!
I watched a couple of the “upping the Ante” shows
He had Honeysuckle as his lay of the meeting too..
Would make a good contender for something like Get me out of Here as like you say he has a great personality, although I very much doubt he’d make the cut even with their Z-list contestantsGaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
I wouldn’t knock anyone for being opinionated.
But I wouldn’t act on anyone else’s opinion either.
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Its a tough game when being selective let alone being pushed for tips in every race
I done well at Cheltenham because I had lots more money on my winners than I did my losers but if I was being judged race by race I didn’t do that wellGaelic Warrior Gold Cup Winner 2026
I skimmed through the latest Racing TV magazine yesterday. The last page is usually a brief interview with one of the presenters or pundits. This time it was Martin Dixon, pundit and one of The Horsewatchers partnership with his brother.
His advice for betting was to use your eyes not your ears and to ignore inside information because it is usually overrated.
Not bad advice.
I spoke to one of the Dixons years ago at Ascot on Champions Day. I told him that I’d backed Gordon Lord Byron because he gets further than the rest of the field and the ground was really slow. He looked at me funny and said it doesn’t work like that. I bow to his superior knowledge but on that occasion Gordon Lord Byron bolted up…
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Racing is full of wise sayings that aren’t always that wise or even true.
One is “the market told you” when a horse drifts and gets beat.
The inference is a horse can’t drift and win.
I was fortunate enough to learn very young to keep an open mind.
On my very first day at the races at Beverley I backed a horse called Money To Spare at 5/1.
It drifted like a barge to 10/1 and was held up out the back in a 1m2f Handicap.
As they descended the hill 6f out it was stone cold last.
I was watching on the rail in The Silver Ring about 100 yards from the finish and couldn’t really hear the tannoy.
As the horses approached the distance, this horse on the outside sailed about five lengths clear passing me to win easily.
It was Money To Spare.
I had bet it at literally half the odds it started, but it taught me from that day to this that horses can drift and win in this gloriously uncertain game.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"My brother use to love to have a quid or two on a heavy drifter before the off
Nothing wrong with it unless the drift is caused by the horse walking around the paddock with only 3 legs, I use to tell him..
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I think a drift is less worrying in a big pattern race than it is in a low-grade handicap.
I remember Pelerin drifting from 7/1 to 14/1 before the Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot back in the day.
In a low-grade handicap you might have “is today the day?” integrity concerns, but in a race like the Hardwicke everything is trying and a drift can simply be down to a lack of market support amid sustained support for other runners.
Pelerin won comfortably enough and that was another lesson that stuck with me.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Can depend on the trainer , if a Emmet Mullins horse drifts I wouldn’t touch it with a barge pole ….
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Certain yards, certain grades of race, some yards gamble, some don’t and even some who do they are so small their bets can’t even make a horse hold its price.
It’s unwise ever to generalise.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Before last years Cambridgeshire the favourite Mujtabe drifted to 11.9 on Betfair but returned 5/1 fav sp after trainer William Haggis was interviewed on ITV shortly before the race and said he thought it had no chance. Something I cannot recall happening before!
In horse-racing, as in life, the responsibility for advice lies on the the person who accepts it.
But when all else fails, bet on the horse with the French name.Just one man’s opinion. He wasn’t the only one who had a bad Cheltenham. Loads of so called experts had jonbon,edwardstone,Marie’s rock winning and loads doubted gdc. I was right in 3 out of the 4 mentioned but on another day it could have been 1. I enjoy their upping the ante and he has some logic to his bets.
In the often-po-faced and so-serious field of racing punditry, Dineen is a likeable daftie.
I’d not back anything based on his opinion, but then again, that doesn’t put him in a minority.
Never seen or heard the bloke, never will, but I’m with Quelle Farce on this – “likeable dafties” make the world go round.
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