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  • #1610707
    Avatar photoIanDavies
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    Voting closes at 11.59pm TOMORROW.

    Many thanks to the forum legends who have voted thus far.

    The rest of you?

    A plague on all your houses!

    I bet you haven’t voted for A in the gamble avatar poll either!

    “Let’s be having you!” (or I’ll recruit a formidable-looking East Anglian woman to lob a copy of her latest cook book at your heads!)

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    #1610715
    Avatar photoGladiateur
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    “Voting closes at 11.59pm TOMORROW.”

    Exactly. There’s plenty of time, so stop getting your knickers in a twist.

    #1610720
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    “There’s plenty of time,”

    I seem to recall Greville Starkey saying the same thing on Dancing Brave at the top of Tattenham Hill.

    Well, alright, I don’t, I was half a mile away in the Stands, but you get my drift, Gladders!

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    #1610722
    Avatar photoNathan Hughes
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    Guaranteed you will get a pm one minute past midnight
    Its like those in the betting shops that dash to the counter when the last horse has just entered the stalls. Never seen old men run so fast.. :wacko:

    Charles Darwin to conquer the World

    #1610726
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    An utterly miserable pedant like me can be relied upon to void (with attitude!) anything past the deadline!

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    #1610763
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    Voting closes TONIGHT at 11.59pm.

    See earlier postings for rules.

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    #1610766
    Richard88
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    Haha don’t get me started Nathan. Amazing how a hare running at Crayford miraculously cures the ills of those who otherwise can’t move without crutches.

    I always wanted to tell them that I opened the door at 8.30 this morning and it’s now 3pm, whose fault is you can’t get your bet on? My tongue still has the bite marks.

    #1610773
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    Currently feel that I am living under a dictatorship but the ERG aren’t on the list. And, although I’m dog sitting at my daughters house all of my spare time is being taken up with travelling home each day in an attempt to get my tv working (Talk Talk have sent out a replacement tv box and it can’t connect to the internet). My brain is scrambled. I get a bit obsessive about things like this and can’t think about anything else! Being a complete technophobe doesn’t help.Look forward to the race, though and sincere apologies for not voting. If I can resolve the issue when I go home today I’ll try to vote when I return to my daughters. If Talk Talk could end up in Bechers Brook that would make me very happy. ( I even couldn’t watch last nights racing because of it all…)

    #1610779
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    Voting closes at 11.59pm sharp tonight – not one second after!

    That’s just ten hours and 24 minutes from now!

    Yes, just 684 voting minutes left!

    All votes by PM as per the rules stated earlier in the thread.

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    #1610780
    Avatar photoCork All Star
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    I appreciate punters putting on their bets about a second before the off time is often down to laziness or being awkward and I understand why it drives betting shop staff up the wall.

    However, in some circumstances it is sensible to bet as late as possible. You might want to see how a horse with issues around its temperament handles the preliminaries. Also, late market moves are often very significant nowadays.

    #1610782
    Avatar photoIanDavies
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    Late voting, however, is harder to fathom!

    Unless it’s a conspiracy to have me up literally all night writing the commentary!

    (Not that I mind – labour of love!)

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    #1610787
    Richard88
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    Trust me Cork, the vast majority throwing bets at you at the last second wouldn’t have a clue about the idea of observing temperamental horses never mind identifying which ones they are.

    Moe- clearly Talk Talk still has a hangover from the era of one D Harding, whose glittering CV also includes Test and Trace.

    #1610794
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    I have mentioned Ms Harding in one of my many recent conversations with TalkTalk. I still have the letter she sent out in 2015. She doesn’t deserve to have owned a Gold Cup winner. Mind you, didn’t he try to bury her in the paddock when she rode him once?

    #1610798
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    Voting closes in eight hours and 39 minutes!

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    #1610810
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    This is your six-hour (and, err, 20 minutes) warning….

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    #1610821
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    As last year, the scheduled off time for tomorrow’s race is 11.11am.

    Voting closes at 11.59pm tonight.

    I am "The Horse Racing Punter" on Facebook
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    It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"

    #1610845
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    Voting enters its final 100 minutes….

    I am "The Horse Racing Punter" on Facebook
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    It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"

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