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<p abp=”222″>Have to keep expenses to a minimum, no mortgage. Not that anyone will allow a “professional gambler” a mortgage anyway, unless they’ve got a regular income from something else… And if you’ve got another income then you’re not really a <em abp=”223″>“professional gambler”. It’s also difficult to get car insurance for some reason.
Perhaps the risk of driving into a brick wall after a bad day.
Racecourses are just the place to have mounted horse patrols, that’ll keep things in check.
<p abp=”458″>I thought it might be nice to bump this thread.
<p abp=”459″>It’s just under a year since I joined these forums and I would like to share my journey with you.
<p abp=”460″>My first post was about asking how to study form and since that post, I’m proud to say that I’ve become more interested in racing.
<p abp=”461″>Whilst my main focus has been on trading the horse racing markets on Betfair, I’ve become a bit of a racing geek in that I spend A LOT of my spare time watching replays and seeing how the running compares to the previews in the ProForm Daily guides.
<p abp=”462″>I don’t visit these forums as often as I should, but I wanted to say thank you for the users who post here – even in 2017, I hope I am proof that racing can still attract newcomers to the sport.
<p abp=”463″>Urbanhermit
I wasn’t on here when you first posted but had I been, the advice would have been to spend a lot of time studying form and above all, have a really good memory.
<p abp=”226″>Alan Potts in one of his books describes a certain jockey as ‘the ten pound penalty’, understandably not naming him. I’d appreciate a private message if anyone knows to which jockey he was referring.
Several of them.
I’ve never quite understood why so many tipsters make a selection based on the claim of an apprentice. Other than in the case of exceptional apprentices, the golden rule should be that they’re getting their allowance because they haven’t scaled the heights yet.
<p abp=”303″>I’ve decided to follow Leigh Roche in races (or on horses) whose names have a connection with grass. I’m sure there are better systems, but I can’t think of one right now.
<p abp=”304″>Anyway, assuming the beast stands its ground for the 4.45 at Tipperary tomorrow, my road to untold riches will commence with a small wager on High Honcho.
<p abp=”305″>Do like your selection system, sorry if I am laughing (you wont see it). Honcho is a known Herbecide name… where is the Grass bit?
They’ll be racing on it.
<p abp=”205″>Ryan Price was another one. Fearsome man
II was at a Windsor evening meeting and met a guy who seemed to go racing every day and certainly knew his stuff. He pointed out someone lurking by a pillar and said, “Watch the bookies when he moves”. When he did move towards the bookies the rubbers were out deleting the price on one of Ryan’s horses, he was one of Prices betting agents.
Talking of Ryan Price, I can remember John Jenkins as a jockey, first of all as an apprentice flat jockey, then as a jumps jockey. He often rode for a Ed Beeson who I think had been a top man in the Ryan Price stable. Do you remember him, he seemed to know how to get a horse ready.
<p abp=”192″>You’d assume most of my selections have been running on valium
Awwwww, don’t destroy the illusion.
<p abp=”372″>A fitting climax to what must be one of the dullest weeks of the year
Well I did OK at Goodwood but give me cold, wet day at Cartmel…………
<p abp=”362″>ITV have had a bit of stick this week but fair play to them for getting Ryan Moore on screen and keep him talking for about 3 minutes, it didn’t look easy.
What did he say?
<p abp=”418″>Pity, Chapman didn’t jump on the back of Winter and ride-off into the sunset never to return.
<p abp=”419″>He really is obnoxious.
That would be funnier than he is. My TV almost got the thrown boot treatment when he was screeching along the bookie line after Moore had won the first three.
Anything trained by the late George Todd. Even when they didn’t win frequently, you knew as soon as the money went on, they were home and dried. Mind yhou, there were a number of trainers back in those days whose money you could follow, especially around Epsom.
<p abp=”234″>I’ve actually stopped watching the racing on TV. Initially I thought ITV was an improvement, but this year is the first I haven’t watched the Grand National (though that is hardly ITV’s fault as it’s just any old race now), the Derby, Oaks and Royal Ascot. One of the problems has been recording as they keep changing the channels and also the programme titles, making it difficult for anyone who sets up recordings. The main gripe is the lack of horse coverage before the race, especially galling when there are talking heads and you can see the runners in the background. That clown Chapman is the last straw. Also racing just isn’t as interesting as it used to be, Coolmore clones all from the same bloodlines just don’t do it for me.<br abp=”235″>
I will probably come back for the jumping, but I used to enjoy each code equally.I have always preferrred the jumps game and I can but hope ITV gets its act together in the coming weeks and months. I switched on on Tuesday less than five minutes before the start of a race, only to find some affected twat talking about fashion and listening to a choir. What a self-indulgent bunch they are.
So where did the money come from for Here Not When. Generally 66/1 early morning, 40/1 reported mid-morning. On the serious threat of rain I went to the bookies and got 50/1. Even allowing for the withdrawal of Churchill, there must have been a handsom slice from somewhere and it wasn’t mine.
One of O’Sullevans outstanding commmentaries was when Be Friendly won in the Vernons Cup. Here was one of the big sprint races of the year but you would not have known O’Sullevan owned Be Friendly.
Goldie, who had the first three home in a race, only a couple of days ago, also trained another favourite horse called Quito, who you could back with some confidence if there was some give in the ground.
<p abp=”270″>It wouldn’t really bother me now, but when I was a lot younger (in the eighties) I used to despair at the number of mistakes he made. I don’t know if I noticed it more as I was a young obsessive, but another particular flaw he had, was concentrating on particular horses. He was often lauded for his impartiality during the like of Attivo’s races, but in my era, you could tell a mile off if there was a particular horse he wanted to win.
<p abp=”271″>My view exactly VTC. His commentary on the 1981 Grand National was a good example – clear that he wanted “54 year old John Thorne to win” and his disappointment when Aldaniti passed the post in front was pretty obvious.
<p abp=”272″>Agree about the errors too. I’m sure it was far more difficult in those days, before the advantages of technology that today’s commentators enjoy, however, to a child’s ear, Sir Peter did seem to make many elementary mistakes and it inevitably got worse as he got older.
<p abp=”273″>He was indisputably the “voice of racing” but by no means perfect and, in my opinion, was allowed to carry on when his ability to do the job well had long passed
I remember a response to someone who said at 42, Stanley Matthews was past his best. The answer was that may be true but he was still the best right-winger in the world.
