Sunday, March 22, 2009
Best Bets of the Day!!
1 placed horse and 3 non-runners yesterday!!
Looks like the ground is firming up and becoming Good Spring ground, thus the amount of withdrawals yesterday.
I will be backing the following horses today:
5.15 curr CLUAIN ALAINN to win
In a very difficult Hcp,
4.15 curr MOTAFANNY E/W
BE LUCKY!!
Saturday, March 21, 2009
HORSES TO FOLLOW
Tony McCoy at Haydock thinks he has a chance of 2 or 3 winners today:
4.20 ZEMSKY 'has MOSCOW CATCH to beat'
4.55 FIRTH OF FORTH 'will be hard to beat'
5.30 PEVERIL is his 'best ride of the day'
2.40 FORTY FIVE 'has a good solid chance'
All runners are in quite small fields and I will be backing these horses in 6 x e/w dbls and 4 x e/w trebles.
BE LUCKY!!
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Best Bets of the Day!!
Friday, March 13, 2009
Cheltenham - Day 4
The last day of the Cheltenham festival and I will be backing the following horses today:
Triumph hdl - WALKON E/W
Albert Bartlett - ALPHA RIDGE E/W
Grand Annual - POQUELIN E/W
BE LUCKY!!
Triumph hdl - WALKON E/W
Albert Bartlett - ALPHA RIDGE E/W
Grand Annual - POQUELIN E/W
BE LUCKY!!
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
CHELTENHAM 2009 - Day 1
Check out the bookmaker concessions especially if you are betting e/w.
I am sure the LADBROKES spokesman said the firm are paying 4 places on ALL races at Cheltenham today. Check before placing your bets but I am sure that's what he said.
If you back a horse with VICTOR CHANDLER and your horse falls, you will get a FREE bet to the same value.
1.30 SUPREME NOV HDL
TOTSPORT paying 4 places
LADBROKE paying 4 places
BOYLESPORTS paying 4 places
If you back a horse with BOYLESPORTS and COUSIN VINNY wins, you will get your money back, probably as a FREE bet.
There has been a scare with COUSIN VINNY who didn't travel well over from Ireland and didn't eat or drink after arriving.
General consensus is this horse is the best in the field and conditions will suit him, BUT there is this question over his well being and I will be leaving this race alone.
2.05 ARKLE CHASE
LADBROKE paying 4 places
SKYBET paying 4 places
A very open race this year, with no superstars on show. I will be having a small E/W bet on PANJO BERE @ 33/1.
2.40 WILL HILL HCP CHASE
BOYLESPORTS paying 5 places
Hcps are notoriously difficult to predict, but if we use the stats of backing lto winners, N Henderson trained horses & Irish trained horses, we narrow the field to 6 horses.
WICHITA LINEMAN, MILLENIUM ROYALE, CAILIN ALAINN, GOLDEN FLIGHT, OEDIPE, PATSY HALL.
Favorites have a terrible record so that gets rid of WICHITA LINEMAN.
I will be backing those 5, WIN ONLY.
3.20 CHAMPION HDL
BOYLESPORTS Paying 1/3 the odds
BINOCULAR looks a short price considering there is a field of 24 runners.
I give last years winner KATCHIT a good chance of finishing in the first 4, so KATCHIT e/w @ 16/1 will do for me.
4.00 X-COUNTRY CHASE
Enda Bolger wins these races all the time and has 4 runners.
I will side with L'AMI @ 9/4.
4.40 D NICHOLLS MARES RACE
Willy Mullins likes the chances of QUEVEGA and thinks this is his best chance of the week, thats good enough for me.
If you need some pointers to help you find winners, listen to the champ AP McCoy below.
BE LUCKY!!
I am sure the LADBROKES spokesman said the firm are paying 4 places on ALL races at Cheltenham today. Check before placing your bets but I am sure that's what he said.
If you back a horse with VICTOR CHANDLER and your horse falls, you will get a FREE bet to the same value.
1.30 SUPREME NOV HDL
TOTSPORT paying 4 places
LADBROKE paying 4 places
BOYLESPORTS paying 4 places
If you back a horse with BOYLESPORTS and COUSIN VINNY wins, you will get your money back, probably as a FREE bet.
There has been a scare with COUSIN VINNY who didn't travel well over from Ireland and didn't eat or drink after arriving.
General consensus is this horse is the best in the field and conditions will suit him, BUT there is this question over his well being and I will be leaving this race alone.
2.05 ARKLE CHASE
LADBROKE paying 4 places
SKYBET paying 4 places
A very open race this year, with no superstars on show. I will be having a small E/W bet on PANJO BERE @ 33/1.
2.40 WILL HILL HCP CHASE
BOYLESPORTS paying 5 places
Hcps are notoriously difficult to predict, but if we use the stats of backing lto winners, N Henderson trained horses & Irish trained horses, we narrow the field to 6 horses.
WICHITA LINEMAN, MILLENIUM ROYALE, CAILIN ALAINN, GOLDEN FLIGHT, OEDIPE, PATSY HALL.
Favorites have a terrible record so that gets rid of WICHITA LINEMAN.
I will be backing those 5, WIN ONLY.
3.20 CHAMPION HDL
BOYLESPORTS Paying 1/3 the odds
BINOCULAR looks a short price considering there is a field of 24 runners.
I give last years winner KATCHIT a good chance of finishing in the first 4, so KATCHIT e/w @ 16/1 will do for me.
4.00 X-COUNTRY CHASE
Enda Bolger wins these races all the time and has 4 runners.
I will side with L'AMI @ 9/4.
4.40 D NICHOLLS MARES RACE
Willy Mullins likes the chances of QUEVEGA and thinks this is his best chance of the week, thats good enough for me.
If you need some pointers to help you find winners, listen to the champ AP McCoy below.
BE LUCKY!!
Friday, March 6, 2009
Charity Bet for a good cause
TRIUMPH HURDLE
£5 E/W EBADIYAN @ 10/1
This horse has a definite e/w chance and his half brother won the Supreme Novices hurdle at Cheltenham at 40/1.
The horse is by a Derby winning sire and has Classic winning form on the dam side.
I will be backing:
TRIUMPH HURDLE
£5 E/W EBADIYAN @ 10/1
Winnings to go to trainer Oliver Brady's fundraising charity at www.shabracharity.com
An amazing story:
By Chris McGrath
Thursday, 5 March 2009
Six years ago, Oliver Brady was told he had six months to live. Had his doctors known the story of his first winner, however, they might have revised their prognosis. For things looked bleaker still for Barts Hill, when Brady stumbled across her 25 years ago. In fact, she was booked into an abattoir the very next day.
Brady was at a Sunday market, just over the Irish border in Ulster, and found a fellow selling tack. He eyed Brady speculatively. "I don't suppose you'd be interested in a mare with a bit of pedigree?" Brady was taken to see Barts Hill. She had been a feeble runner. In fact, she had beaten precisely one horse in 11 starts, but Brady thought he might give her a chance and breed from her.
"I gave him 150 quid, including 15 for the tack," he recalled yesterday. "I took her home, put her in a field for six months, and fed her up. She was weak, that was her problem. But then I noticed something else. In the field, she was scared of the other mares, didn't want to be among horses. And when we started working her, the moment you put her on the outside, she flew."
Brady put the mare in a race at Navan and had 500 punts each-way at 33-1. Once switched wide, she took off and never stopped. She won by 20 lengths, an exotic distance in Flat racing, and went on to win big prizes at the Curragh and Galway.
It was a typically extravagant breakthrough from the man whose theatrical celebrations in the winner's enclosure have put the racing backwater of Co. Monaghan indelibly on the map. And if anything is keeping him alive, it is not the daily pot pourri of tablets, but a profound intimation that the adventure he began that day is approaching its culmination.
Next week, Brady takes one of the best young hurders in Ireland to the Cheltenham Festival. He is so confident of Ebadiyan's prospects in the JCB Triumph Hurdle that you literally fear for his health. "I really do think he's the one I've been waiting for," he said. "If he's in the first four at the bottom of the hill, he'll win, no bother. Nothing will outstay him from there. All he needs is the luck in running."
The bandwagon is careering uncontrollably through Ireland. An Ebadiyan song by a friend, Rose McConnon, played for the first time on the radio yesterday, while Brady has been declaiming Ebadiyan poems at Festival preview nights around the country. The showman is in his element, of course, but he is tiring himself out, too. For the horse has become the spur to Brady's hopes of raising €300,000 apiece for Kenyan orphanages and a new cancer scanner at a Dublin hospital.
"The doctors would be telling me not to overdo it," he admitted. "But whatever time I've got left, I don't want to spend in a dressing gown feeling sorry for myself. Of course I have my downs, but I have a great love of life. God gave it to me, and I want to use it for as long and as best as I can."
Brady has already lost his mother and three of his eight siblings to cancer. "When I was diagnosed, they thought I wasn't going to make it," he said. "So my brother took to coming over from England at weekends. He would sit here watching the racing, and always back the grey – didn't matter if it was even money or 50-1. What we didn't know was that Benny already had the sickness himself, and he went before me. So this year when I went to the sales, Rita, [Shah, his business partner], said to buy a grey one, in Benny's memory."
She gave him €80,000, but Brady found Ebadiyan for €18,000. "And with the hype the horse is getting for Monaghan, and the money he's raising, I do say very sincerely that this is something made in heaven," he said. "Maybe Benny's looking down on us. People say I'm lucky. Maybe I am. But we never have more than half a dozen in training here, and I know to get a horse of that calibre, in a little stable like this ... Well, it's not something that just happens."
Brady was raised in poverty, up the road in Ballybay. Every month, there was a horse fair, and young Oliver would be paid sixpence to trot the lots up and down the street. "Don't worry," his widowed mother told the other children. "Oliver will be home soon, he'll have some money for us." It long remained an unpromising odyssey, via a leather tannery, a linen mill, a car dealer in Brixton, but eventually he ended up with a profitable plastics business. In the meantime he had won £40,000 in doubles and trebles at the 1981 Cheltenham Festival, and set himself up as a trainer.
But there have been no half-measures in his medical history, either. First diagnosed with cancer in 1995, he has since had four operations. He is diabetic. One day they discovered that his arteries were 97 per cent blocked. He was "a bomb waiting to go off" and had a quadruple by-pass.
Occasionally he is required to wear a cardiac monitor for a few days. Recently the doctors rang him in a panic. "There's one reading that has just gone haywire," they said. "Here. Between 1pm and 2.30pm, 7 December." Brady laughed. "Oh, don't worry about that," he said. "I'd just had a winner at Clonmel, and was doing my stuff in the ring." "Well," they said. "Let's hope you don't have too many more of those."
That wish will not be shared by any neutrals at Cheltenham next week. Watching Brady, hoarsening in his Monaghan football shirt, some of the punters round the winner's enclosure would doubtless imagine him drunk. "And the truth of the matter is that I've never had a drink or a smoke in my life," he said. The irony is not lost on him. But however long he gets, he will make every day count.
The intimate hill country round Monaghan has not had such a champion since Patrick Kavanagh wrote Tarry Flynn. "They reckon I'm getting as good as him," Brady said wryly. "But you know, poets don't get good until they die."
On that basis, you will never in your life be so glad to hear such execrable verse as when Ebadiyan does the business.
Fingers crossed!!
Thursday, March 5, 2009
FREE bet offers for Cheltenham
Bookmakers are offering FREE bets for anyone opening a new account.
From Monday I will be publishing details of FREE bet offers, and hopefully finding a winner or two to back at the festival.
BE LUCKY!!
From Monday I will be publishing details of FREE bet offers, and hopefully finding a winner or two to back at the festival.
BE LUCKY!!
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Horses to Follow
Another couple of horses on our list run today BUT are very short prices, and one of them is having his first run of the season.
So for that reason I didn't post earlier as I am not keen on short prices, especially when a horse is making its seasonal debut.
Anyway, the horses in question are:
Chevalier Country - 14:35 - Fairyhouse
Form figures: 712
Age: 4
Past Form: A winner of a hurdle race at 2m on heavy ground. Beaten 3/4l by Kyrie Eleison when second of 7 at 7-2 on his latest outing in a Grade 2 hurdle race over this course and distance (soft) last month.
Apt Approach - 15:05 - Fairyhouse
Form figures: F/169-
Past Form: A winner of a NH flat race at 2m 1f on soft ground. Well beaten at 8-1 behind Cousin Vinny when 9th of 17 on his latest NH outing in a NH flat race at Punchestown over 2m (good to soft) in April.
It appears to me that Willie Mullins could have a very good Cheltenham festival this year with four of his runners highly fancied to run well, in addition to the possee of runners he unleashes in the Championship bumper race.
Listening to Willie being interviewed, it appears he is not sure which of his bumper runners is his best. Indeed he is of the opinion that 6 or 7 of them are good enough to have won in previous years.
The outcome of the race will likely be decided by ground conditions, as the French horses he has can run all day, but the Irish horses have a bit more speed.
So trying to guess the winner at this stage is impossible imo.
COUSIN VINNY is strongly fancied, BUT which race will he run in?
Again ground conditions would appear to be the deciding factor.
Same applies to MIKAEL D'HAGUENET, who is unlikely to run unless it rains or there is some watering of the track.
Thats all for now, back to the formbooks!!
BE LUCKY!!
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Horses to Follow
A couple of nice winners on Wednesday from our Horses to Follow list, with RAZOR ROYALE and RUSSIAN TRIGGER doing the business, let's hope for more of the same today.
Our Bomber Harris - 14:30 - Exeter
Trainer: P F Nicholls
Jockey: R Walsh
Form figures: 2-114
Past Form: Successful in a hurdle race and a NH flat race at 2m and 2m 2f on good to soft and soft ground. Well beaten at 17-2 behind Karabak when fourth of 13 on his latest outing in a hurdle race at Ascot over 2m 3f (good to soft) in January.
Marleybow - 15:20 - Newcastle
Trainer: J Howard Johnson
Jockey: Denis O'Regan
Form figures: 1/18P-24
Past Form: Successful in a hurdle race and a NH flat race at 2m and 2m 4f on good ground. Well beaten at 7-2 behind Skippers Brig when fourth of 10 on his latest outing in a chase at Carlisle over 2m 5f (heavy) in November.
Highly thought of by connections, looks to have a big chance today.
Vivona Hill - 17:20 - Newcastle
Trainer: G A Swinbank
Jockey: B Hughes
Form figures: 121
Past Form: Successful in a hurdle race and a NH flat race twice at 2m on good and good to soft ground. Won on his latest outing in a NH flat race when 7-4fav at Catterick over 2m (good to soft) in December, beating Mr Syntax by 1 1/2l.
Highly thought of by trainer who commented at the start of the season
'he could be one of the best horses we've ever had'.
As Cheltenham draws near there look to be some cracking bets over the four days.
There appear to be quite a few short priced horses in the markets, BUT as we know there are no sure things at Cheltenham - except KASBAH BLISS maybe.
Beware following all the favorites though as over the last 10 years only 33% of them have won, and only 2 won last year!!
Can't wait!!
BE LUCKY!!
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