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Thanks for the advice. Will probably just study the race without looking at any prices, come up with a shortlist of three or four and then go for the biggest price one on the day. Will let you know how it goes.
Cheers<br>Mounty
Betlarge, I was the world’s shortest goalkeeper – used to get lobbed from the edge of the six yard box. Dislocated my shoulder saving a backpass from my bloody rightback once, the following season backpasses were outlawed – can’t be coincidence.
Having gone racing with Stav at Leicester and Southwell earlier this year I can confirm that he is clean-living family man and is in no way suffering from deep-rooted emotional and mental health problems….and neither is his invisible best friend, Norman.
My right knee is giving me some grief – ever since I used the step machine at that bloody gym and I still have a dicky left shoulder (thanks to a distinguished goalkeeping career in my youth). :)
But seriously….online firms who have no traders/odds compilers in the traditional sense but who use software to set their odds according to Betfair. Someone in cyberspace will be willing to lay 8 x two quid but they’ll go 8-1 – bonkers. It’s a similar story on-course.
Or looking at it another way – what’s the best form figure you can have next to your horse’s name in a maiden?
Have been told that Kauto Star (antepost favourite for the Champion Chase) may go for the Gold Cup and that Well Chief might not even make it to the track this season :o so certainly wouldn’t put you off Voy Por Ustedes at the 8-1 with Ladbrokes (Corals only go 6-1).
Missed That is my very early Gold Cup fancy though haven’t backed him yet, just laid everything else that’s trading at 50 or lower on Betfair.
It’s all relative I guess. They’ll lay you £10,000 on one if you’re having monkey reverse forecasts traps 1 and 6 through the card at Brough Park. If you only ever pop in the shop for a snide each-way bet or to arb on a pricewise horse then they’re entitled to tell you to stuff off.
(Edited by Mounty at 9:20 pm on Sep. 25, 2006)
Nothing to do with racing but Nigel Slater’s (he of TV Chef fame) autobiography type thing "Toast – the story of a boy’s hunger". My mother parted with 20p for it at a car boot sale – she was ripped off. She thought it was recipe-related and had a something of a shock when the chubby chef started going into details about his sex life.
Betlarge, this "friend" of yours wouldn’t be your good self would it? Can’t believe you had a pony on after asking me to take ten grand out of it for you :biggrin:
Survived day two…Yarmouth actually looked pleasant in the sunshine (but then so does downtown Beirut). Louis Toussaud also has Posh & Becks and Michael Owen. I suppose the latter is easy to do – just one big plaster cast.
Bet365 have got a new system – every time I try to place an each-way double (not even on snide races!) it logs me out – true :)
I wouldn’t say Hills are uncompetitive but at least they’ll lay a proper bet. Betdirect laid me £32.40 on a 5-6 shot a couple of days ago. No wonder they’re going skint!
I guess because they only lay the ones they’re biggest about and have to pay a slice of profits to oddschecker.
I’ve always thought Compton was the best of their presenters, especially when he’s in the betting broom cupboard thing (bring back Gordon the Gopher).
Racing doesn’t really work in a monthly magazine format. It’s hard enough picking winners on the day of the race let alone five weeks beforehand. Racing Ahead has a few good articles, mostly those by Simon Nott, but most of the contributors are tipsters writing waffle in return for free advertising space. In The Know magazine was another failure in this sphere.
