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The Cheltenham Festival.
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Postman Pep
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Same here £2.50 e.w. Picked up some decent place money in the 2 previous races also so in profit for once after a couple of shocking years.Pulled put a shocking day with a 5 pound bet each way on the winner in the last. Crap first 6 races but nicely in profit now this week.
niall'sdiscoshorts
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captain dibble....what an absolute donkey lol, be stood on the kippax with my brother, he'd ask if id backed that horse and if I had he'd grunt some stuff about why we bother to turn up as when it gets beat so do City...gotta adnit it did...we did!Happy days, we all remember the early successes.
Mine was when I was also 17, backed Captain Dibble on debut at 33/1 just for the name no doubt and it won, I collected it and nothing was said but in retrospect, I should have given my dad the slip to collect just in case they took it off me for being underage.
I once got a false price off the woman behind the till in my favour, the horse was Timeless Times, a multiple sand winner, it was being backed off the boards and I was stuck in the queue, for whatever reason she looked at the main TV screen and the price was 7/4 but she wrote 7/2, had a tenner on and they paid out but the manager was a little bit off about it, I never argued but said that was the price his staff had put down and I hadn't noticed.
You don't win to many times from the bookie lol
Franny 1234
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COOL CODY cost me £1,250 today in what was one of the best come backs I've ever seen. He was going backwards them just went like a steam train.
Good to read peoples posts on here reminiscing, as I have always liked a bet, I can still see my old man glued to the itv six every saturday when I was a kid, cursing or cheering,woodbine in hand, so I blame him.
I have always been a small stakes big odds sort of punter 20pwin or e/w lucky 15/31 with a 50p e/w acc on top,depending on odds, had some nice touches too. Done the same type of bets for thirty odd years without raising my stake much, although I will back singles if I am confident.
Over the years I have had long breaks from betting and am quite comfortable with where Im at gambling wise, getting a bet on used to be logistically difficult at times when you had to go the bookies, probably bet less nowadays despite it being so easy to bet on the internet.
Anyway, have had a few winners this week in multiple bets, but was perusing the last today, I was waiting on Mister Coffey as it was my last selection in an e/w lucky 31 with the previous four runners having lost, placed, won, and placed. So thought I would have an outsider to add more interest, and lo and behold up pops Chambard at 40/1, only had £1 e/w but Mister Coffey finished second too which has definitely put me up so far.
Ihave always preferred the cavalry charge type handicap race to bet on, full of familiar names and big prices paying first four/five e/w, so backing that last winner was no surprise really.
Racing is a mugs game for some, and there are many who look down on the cloth capped old punter in the bookies type of thing, but it can also be a great hobby too if you keep it sensible, with the added bonus of maybe winning some serious money.
I have had dealings through work(building) with people involved in racing too which has created interest for me occasionally with "information" good and bad, Some good racing based stories too.
Off now to look at fridays runners, hope to find a few "dark horses" that no one else has in the tipster comp lol.
I have always been a small stakes big odds sort of punter 20pwin or e/w lucky 15/31 with a 50p e/w acc on top,depending on odds, had some nice touches too. Done the same type of bets for thirty odd years without raising my stake much, although I will back singles if I am confident.
Over the years I have had long breaks from betting and am quite comfortable with where Im at gambling wise, getting a bet on used to be logistically difficult at times when you had to go the bookies, probably bet less nowadays despite it being so easy to bet on the internet.
Anyway, have had a few winners this week in multiple bets, but was perusing the last today, I was waiting on Mister Coffey as it was my last selection in an e/w lucky 31 with the previous four runners having lost, placed, won, and placed. So thought I would have an outsider to add more interest, and lo and behold up pops Chambard at 40/1, only had £1 e/w but Mister Coffey finished second too which has definitely put me up so far.
Ihave always preferred the cavalry charge type handicap race to bet on, full of familiar names and big prices paying first four/five e/w, so backing that last winner was no surprise really.
Racing is a mugs game for some, and there are many who look down on the cloth capped old punter in the bookies type of thing, but it can also be a great hobby too if you keep it sensible, with the added bonus of maybe winning some serious money.
I have had dealings through work(building) with people involved in racing too which has created interest for me occasionally with "information" good and bad, Some good racing based stories too.
Off now to look at fridays runners, hope to find a few "dark horses" that no one else has in the tipster comp lol.
Millwallawayveteran1988
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Won it today! Had first 3 winners with 25-1 shot Hard Wind being the surprise one in the second race and I was the only one to have it. Happy days!Good luck :)
leighton
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4.50 today Concertista 4/1 looks way too big can run on anything and is the value today for myself. Not backing big as I have no luck just think Townend Double of Concertista and the first race looks highly likely today.
bluemoon32
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Another 3 horses dead
GaudinoMotors
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Yeah - but some people on here are "up"; so happy days!Another 3 horses dead
It's animal cruelty. A contemptible spectacle.
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leighton
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The horses are well looked after. It's national hunt racing. It happens the fences are a lot easier than years gone by and the whips are not like the old 1s. To say it's animal cruelty when you see how heart broken the owners and trainers and all involved in the racing are when 1 dies says it all.