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Sort yourself out man…how many more ludicrous threads are we going to have on this board?
Five Dream is improving with every run and I don’t think he’s going to be far away, but Mephisto and Palomar are the two against the field for me – 33/1 and 13/2 respectively will do just fine.
No I haven’t explained, Kwai Chang, because I really can’t be assed, but I have made it clear why two parts of the trick need not be considered in order to work out how it was done. Once you strip away the unnecessary elements, it becomes far easier, as it does if you listen to what Derren Brown says during the programme…
The fact that they were experts means nothing, as the test had nothing whatsoever to do with racing or betting, and you can also ignore the ‘revelation’ that the numbers on the photographs matched the odds of Derren Brown predicting that particular series of events – if he did indeed know what was going to happen, then it stands to reason that he’d have known what numbers to write on the photographs in the first place, and the odds of him being correct in his prediction would have been the same whatever happened.
With those out of the way, I’ll leave you to ponder the rest
Other than Bandari winning as a supposed second string, I can’t recall too many occasions when a less fancied Maktoum runner has won, though given the connections I would suggest any such circumstance would be entirely random.
If you need someone to pick favourite after favourite, and almost guarantee no winners, then Zoey Bird is the gal for you (and she might be more attractive than Jim McGrath, but look what she married).
Baracouda will, generally, be perceived to be the better horse because he was a strong traveller (his victory over Mr Cool at Ascot probably the best example) and, given the right conditions, won his races with a great deal of flair. Inglis Drever is an ugly runner, who rarely travels, but he has plenty of (real) class and doesn’t mind doing things the hard way.
Official ratings say Inglis Drever is the best, whilst RPRs don’t have him within 6lbs of Baracouda at his peak, so the figures don’t offer much assistance. But you can’t help but love Inglis Drever who did, lest we forget, beat Baracouda fair and square at Cheltenham in 2005, and he’d be just the best for me.
That’d be great, Corm.
I’ve really been getting in to American sports over the last year or so (though I’ll never enjoy baseball or ice hockey), and find that betting on them can be far easier, and hence far more lucrative, than risking the hard-earned on UK events. Whether that’s because fewer people take note of the games and remain relatively uninformed, I don’t know, but my betting balance is held up by my US interests.
Saying that, my first real dabble in overseas markets was when backing River Plate last year. They were a (seemingly) crazy 4/1 to win away at a team I can’t remember so I made a ‘sizeable investment’, shall we say. They kicked off at around 2am UK time, and when they went 3-1 up with about 25-30 minutes left I went to bed, counting the money. I got up the next morning to see the home side had scored 3 goals in the last 7 minutes to win it.
That was the first time I almost cried after a bet…
I backed Harchibald (as well as Al Eile, annoyingly, although to small stakes) a few weeks ago and have since had a sizeable bet on Sublimity. So for me it rests firmly between those two, but I don’t think Katchit is as far out of it as would first appear.
I’ve written a lengthy Champion Hurdle preview for my website, and whilst I’d expect him to grab a place at best he can’t be totally discounted (Osana had the run of the race in the Boylesports.com International and was receiving weight from Katchit, then a four-year-old).
It is a vastly differently situation, as you rightly point out Mikky.
I’m just annoyed that, given the Patriots’ habit of starting slowly (as identified above), I didn’t plough into the 13/8 on offer about the Giants scoring first.
Still, it wasn’t a bad night overall – Eli Manning had the game of his life, Tom Brady took some hard sacks and hopefully a few finished the night a few quid up.
It is an incredible achievement, and one he should be congratulated for, but I can’t say as I share in your general admiration of Mark ‘Always Trying’ Johnston, Mikky.
Well, it’s a very particular pictureso how likely it is that you’ll find a print of it, I don’t know.
But to be able to reproduce it as a photograph on a larger scale you, or someone, would need a high definition version of the original. In which case you’d need to consider contacting the copyright holder, whoever that may be.
Are you merely after a large print of a photograph, or a print (copy of a painting) that relates to that particular picture?
You seem to be under the illusion that everyone bar you thinks a horse will run up to it’s best each and every time it races. The point I am making is that you can’t say Newmill was beaten today because of the ground, as he has plenty of form (in the last couple of years and as a novice) which says, if right physically, he’d have handled it without any trouble.
