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So if you said to yourself before the race "The other Nicholls’ horse wins it" why didn’t you back this "other" horse
Because it is always the ‘other one’. Think about it.
Back both and the Henderson/Pipe horse wins. Don’t get me started on the ‘other’ Henderson horse…
Royal Acquisition pulled out at the last mo. I knew I’d get my stake back. But not the forecasts and tricasts he was in. Didn’t even bother looking at the rules, cos i knew it. If you want catchpenny chicanerous* small print, get involved with racing.
*good word, eh?
Thanks chaps, most helpful.
Do you advise Ol Man River? I have had some on him already. Do I go in again?
I like Nev – though I never see RUK. Was wondering what happened to him. Last time I saw him he was in the Premier Bar at Brighton dressed like a teenager.
A Bloody Good Winner is a bloody good book.
He is ultra-competitive, and doesn’t want to pack it in after slipping a few notches and having every pundit, journo and punter asking the question: is he slipping a few notches. It makes perfect sense to me. I salute the man.
1) Increasing stake during a winning streak. It ALWAYS brings said streak to a halt. Always, without exception.
2) Not having the courage of one’s convictions during periods of knocked confidence. Every season I see about a dozen horses that the form tells me are worth a good whack. I demur. I suffer. THEN I see something that I am slightly less happy with but I say ‘look what happened last time’, so I back it and lose. Welcome to the hell of punting on horses.
3) Thinking that a form angle that won you money yesterday – or even in the previous race – will win you money now. E.g. you find an easy winner at a good price by realising that it’s been running on wrong ground and has dropped a class and is now 9lb well in or something. Then you start looking for that angle in the next race, but likely as not the next race doesn’t have a horse like that or will be won by a different set of attributes etc. Humans are minded to ‘well, it worked last time’ modes of thinking. Evolution I suppose. But fatal in punting.
I added that a day’s punting was not very different to walking in a pub and spending a lot ofmoney on drinks – without knowing if they contain any alcohol. Some might, most won’t. If that makes you yell happy days, I said, then get thee to a Ladbrokes forthwith.
The Specials sang this, for all I know it was about tipsters: It’s all a load of bollocks, and bollocks to it all.
When you spend any amount of time reading this forum, you think: I pity the people whose job it is to sell racing to the public. ROLL UP, ROLL UP! YOU CAN’T WIN, IT MAKES YOU EMBITTERED, MAD AND DEMORALISED, ONLY CONNECTIONS KNOW WHEN A HORSE CAN WIN. IT’S ALL DONE TO DEPRIVE MUGS FROM THEIR MONEY.
All adds to racing’s glamour, eh.
When people on here get exercised about FOBTs and their ‘victims’, I can’t help noticing that most of these same posters are the ones who condemn ‘pocket talk’ the most. Why is this?
Bookies are greedy and they do everything in their power to make you lose money so they get more. Racing has a sort of devil’s pact with bookmakers, and we see jockeys making a second income tipping losers all day long. It’s all unsavoury. Yet anyone who points this out is a spoilsport or bad loser.
I noticed a sign from the BBC in my local Corals window: ‘Do you bet on virtual racing…?’
Time could be coming for that particular racket.
It is extraordinary how each season the same thing happens to me. Today, something as expected as Christmas Day: Backing the wrong Pipe ‘plot’.
25 horses backed. No return. Not a penny.
The most expensive day I’ve had in a long old while.
Why do we do bother?
Yes, I thought a fiasco was on the cards.
I backed Oscar Whiskey to make sure he would lose.
I have Dodging Bullets in a couple of doubles.
Had Somersby in a double with Snake Eyes. That’d be right.
Somersby @ 9/1
Snake Eyes @ 4/1
Sweet Deal @ 9/2
Doubles, 2 betSweet Deal @ 9/2
Dodging Bullets @ 10/1
Doubles, 1My losing song:
I’ve backed Balder Succes as per the advice of my tipster. But I’m always very wary of Kingy.
Result stands Prof.
Course it does! I mentally bet my house it would as soon as it happened. I think that for a race to be awarded to a second placed horse, the winner would have to turn when passing and shoot the jockey dead. Racecourse steward voice: ‘Yes, that *may* be grounds for a reversal…’
