Friday, July 31, 2009
Best Bets of the Day!!
Horses to Follow
RIP VAN WINKLE will be hard to beat over 1mile and 10f for the rest of the season according to jockey Johnny Murtagh.
Runners for today
7:25 Galway - Sublime Talent
7:55 Galway - Reflected Image
8:25 Galway - Universal Truth
All favs unfortunately!!
I am beginning to think the layers are offering bad prices to try and recoup some of their losses on D Welds runners.
RESULTS:
2:00 Galway - Noble Crusader - 5th
3:45 Galway - Anywaysmile - 6th
4:00 Goodwood - Suailce - 4th
5:00 Galway - Vital Plot - nr
5:40 Galway - Gratified - nr
Godolphin 4yo+ runners:
2:10 Goodwood - Crime Scene - Unplaced
2009 - 9w-9-6 from 67 runners, a strike rate of 13%:
-6.13pts
Godolphin Results:
3:25 G'WOOD Friston Forest - e/w
Schiaparelli - 1st @ 6/4 (Backed in from 5/2)
2:45 G'WOOD Dandy Man - e/w
Taking the early price on the Godolphin fav would have resulted in a profit of 0.5pts instead of a loss of 0.5pts.
They seem to be overbet when fancied.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Best Bets of the Day!!
Sticking with Dermot Weld again today:
2:00 Galway - Noble Crusader
3:45 Galway - Anywaysmile
4:00 Goodwood - Suailce
5:00 Galway - Vital Plot
5:40 Galway - Gratified
Godolphin 4yo+ runners:
2009 - 4yo+ 8w-9-6-7 from 63 runners, a strike rate of 13%:
-4.63pts
3:25 G'WOOD Friston Forest - e/w
Schiaparelli - Win
2:45 G'WOOD Dandy Man - e/w
BE LUCKY!!
Wednesdays Results:
Surfer Girl - 5th @ 12/1
Miss Chaparral - 2nd @ 2/1
Precious Gem - 1st @ 5/4
Moving Heart - 4th @ 9/4
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Best Bets of the Day!!
RESULTS:
5:10 - Teach Nua - 1st @ 8/1
6:25 - Almolahek - 1st @ 11/2
7:00 - Bobs Pride - 3rd @ 9/1
7:35 - Brushed Aside - 2nd @ Evens
8:10 - Shining Armour - Lost @ 11/2
8:40 - Qassaar - 1st @ 8/15
87.7/1 WIN Treble
7.97/1 WIN dbl
11.8/1 WIN dbl
56.5/1 WIN dbl
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Best Bets of the Day!!
Dermot Weld loves having winners at the Galway festival and runs the following today:
5:10 Galway - Teach Nua (IRE)
6:25 Galway - Almolahek (IRE)
7:00 Galway - Bobs Pride (IRE)
7:35 Galway - Brushed Aside
8:10 Galway - Shining Armour (IRE)
8:40 Galway - Qassaar
BE LUCKY!!
Best Bets of the Day!!
3.25 good MAIN AIM - 4pts win @ 5/4
2 Godolphin 4yo+ runners today:
3:25 Asset GOODWOOD - nr
4:35 Sugar Ray GOODWOOD - 1pt e/w @ 12/1
BE LUCKY!!
RESULTS:
5:10 galw BLACK COFFEE
6.10 wind PLANET RED - 1st @ 2/1
7.10 wind CHOCOLATE COOKIE
Monday, July 27, 2009
Best Bets of the Day!!
5:10 galw BLACK COFFEE
6.10 wind PLANET RED
7.10 wind CHOCOLATE COOKIE
BE LUCKY!!
No Godolphin 4yo+ runners today.
Sunday Results:
4yo+ Godolphin runners on Sunday
3.50 pont ORIZABA - 2nd @ 15/8f
4.00 mun TRINCOT - 3rd @ 18/10
Saturdays selections
3.10 york KIRKLEES - 1st (2/1 backed into Even money)
4.25 asc TARTAN BEARER - 2nd
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Best Bets of the Day!!
The last 5 Godolphin runners have finished 52612, with the winner obliging at 10/3.
Not exactly El Dorado form, but the boys in blue should be followed until the end of the season.
I will concentrate on the 4yo's and above.
BE LUCKY!!
Sunday, July 19, 2009
Best Bets of the Day!!
2:00 nmkt MARINE SPIRIT - 3rd
3.25 newb RED AVALANCHE - 4th
A Godolphin 1,2 in the 3.55 where Frankie picks the wrong one and Godolphin win at a juicy 25/1 with the Exacta paying £45.40
3:55 Crime Scene - 1st @ 25/1
Covert Ambition - 2nd
Prince Siegfried - nr
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Best Bets of the Day!!
2:00 nmkt MARINE SPIRIT - 2pts win @ 2/1
3.25 newb RED AVALANCHE - 1pt e/w @ 16/1
3 Godolphin runners and Frankie rides the fav but it will be a watch only race for me.
3:55 Covert Ambition newb @ 9/4
Prince Siegfried newb @ 12/1
Crime Scene newb @ 16/1
RESULTS:
4:55 newb ASHRAM - 2nd @ 7/4
Led, pushed along to keep advantage from over 1f out, ridden inside final furlong, caught close home - racingPost
5:05 nott SAMAAHA - 2nd @ 5/1
Slowly into stride, soon held up in touch, pushed along over 3f out, ridden 2f out, went 2nd inside final furlong, no chance with winner - racingPost
Godolphin Jul-Sep 2009 / 14w-11pl-39, Favs 12w-17
Friday, July 17, 2009
Best Bets of the Day!!
4:55 newb ASHRAM - 2pts @ Evs
5:05 nott SAMAAHA
Debut run, I will just watch this one.
Closely related to the yard´s high-class 1m-1m6f winner Mamool. - racingPost
BE LUCKY!!
Results:
3.50 leics PRINCE SIEGFRIED (Dettori) - nr
IN FOOTLIGHTS (Durcan) - 1pt win - Lost
5.00 leics SEAWAY (Dettori) - 2pts win - 1st @ 8/11 (opened @ 5/6)
Profit of 0.66pts if taking first show.
Was 7/4 before withdrawals.
Godolphin Jul-Sep 2009 / 14w-9pl-37, Favs 12w-16
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Best Bets of the Day!!
3.50 leics PRINCE SIEGFRIED (Dettori) - 2pts win
IN FOOTLIGHTS (Durcan) - 1pt win
5.00 leics SEAWAY (Dettori) - 2pts win
BE LUCKY!!
RESULTS:
4.20 ling FILM SET - 2nd @ 7/2
Godolphin Jul-Sep 2009 / 13w-9pl-35, Favs 11w-14
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Best Bets of the Day!!
4.20 ling FILM SET - 2pts win @ 3/1
BE LUCKY!!
Results:
6.20 yar SEAMSTER 1pt e/w @ 17/2
7.20 long MASTERY 1pt e/w @ 12/1 - 3rd
Godolphin Jul-Sep 2009 / 13W-8P-34, Favs 11W-13
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Best Bets of the Day!!
WINDSOR 8.00 BUZZWORD - 1st @ 8/11 touched Evens
2pts win
Godolphin Jul-Sep 2009 / 13W-7P-32, Favs 11W-13
6.20 yar SEAMSTER 1pt e/w @ 17/2
7.20 long MASTERY 1pt e/w @ 12/1
BE LUCKY!!
Monday, July 13, 2009
Best Bets of the Day!!
When Frankie and Godolphin get hot it's time to support their runners.
WINDSOR 8.00 BUZZWORD
2pts win
I really fancied SARISKA yesterday, BUT heavy going put me off.
She won like a real good thing and I will be supporting her on ANY going for the rest of the season!!
Results:
2.50 asc IMBONGI - 3rd
3.30 ches BORDERLESCOTT - 1st (2/1 into 6/5fav)
3.45 york QUAI DORSAY
BE LUCKY!!
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Yellow Sam betting coup
Yellow Sam betting coup
From Wikipedia
Bellewstown Race Course, where the coup took place.The Yellow Sam betting coup was a successful sports betting scam, infamous within Irish and British thoroughbred horse racing.
It happened at Bellewstown on 26 June 1975, and was orchestrated by Barney Curley, a Northern Irish professional gambler and entrepreneur. By taking advantage of an under-handicapped horse and the lack of easy communications between the Bellewstown racing course and off-course bookmakers, Curley made a profit of over IR£300,000 (>€1.7m adjusted for inflation) - one of the largest betting coups in Irish history.
The coup
Yellow Sam was a "slow but steady" horse bought by Curley and was given his name from his father's nickname at the races. Curley instructed the horse's trainer, Liam Brennan, to train Yellow Sam specifically for the somewhat obscure annual National Hunt race at Bellewstown, featuring mostly amateur jockeys. To ensure that the horse would run at least once with a much lighter handicap than would normally be the case, Curley first ran the horse in a series of races on other tracks in unfavourable conditions.
Curley spent weeks developing the plan and putting people in place. On the day of the race, Yellow Sam's starting price was 20-1, but if large sums of money were being placed on the horse, that figure would drop quickly, drastically reducing the coup's potential take. It was for this reason that Yellow Sam was to race at Bellewstown specifically, as the track was serviced by just one public telephone and had no private lines at all – making it uniquely possible to disrupt communications to the course bookies who determined the starting prices for the participants.
Dozens of Curley's friends, acquaintances, and paid accomplices stood in bookkeepers across the country with between £50 and £300 and sealed instructions to be opened upon receiving a call. None of the accomplices knew beforehand which horse had been prepared, or in which race it was to run. Curley called six or seven of his people at 2.50pm, ten minutes before the race was to start, and instructed them to each call ten to twenty others. In all, Curley invested just over £15,000, his entire savings, in the gamble. Twenty-five minutes before the race was about to start, and fifteen minutes before the bets were to be placed, Benny O'Hanlon, a friend of Curley's in on the plot, walked into the telephone booth and pretended to place a call to a dying aunt in a non-existent hospital. His act was convincing, as the queue behind him waiting to use the telephone sympathetically allowed him to continue talking for half an hour, while off-course bookies desperately trying to lay off their liabilities struggled in vain to contact their counterparts on the course.
Curley had already built up something of a reputation during his years as a professional gambler, and knew that his presence at the course was likely to cause concern amongst the bookies, and possibly give away the scam before the off. Still, with so much at stake he wanted to see the race first-hand, so he crept into the centre of the course and watched the race concealed in a thicket of gorse. The gamble succeeded, with Yellow Sam winning the 13-hurdle race by two and a half lengths. Since nothing about the coup had been illegal, the bookkeepers were forced to pay out the full IR£300,000 (>€1.7m adjusted for inflation). They did, however, pay out the winnings in single notes, filling 108 bags.
Aftermath
The coup made Barney Curley infamous throughout Ireland and the United Kingdom, and made headlines in many Irish and British national newspapers and television reports. To this day, it continues to be listed as one of the greatest betting scams of all time. Curley invested his earnings in a stable of horses which he continued to have trained for specific gambles, and in the purchase of Middleton House, a mansion in Mullingar, County Westmeath – for which he later ran a raffle of dubious legality, earning him over £1m.
Irish bookkeepers amended their rulebook following the coup to require that bets of over £100 be placed at least half an hour before the start of the race. Bellewstown Race Course itself played up the coup in later years, and in 2005 ran the "Seamus Murphy Yellow Sam 30th Anniversary Hurdle", inviting Barney Curley and Liam Brennan to observe the celebrations.
Yellow Sam continued to run in other races, and in his autobiography, Curley reported having earned a further £700,000 in bets on the horse before it was retired.
From Wikipedia
Bellewstown Race Course, where the coup took place.The Yellow Sam betting coup was a successful sports betting scam, infamous within Irish and British thoroughbred horse racing.
It happened at Bellewstown on 26 June 1975, and was orchestrated by Barney Curley, a Northern Irish professional gambler and entrepreneur. By taking advantage of an under-handicapped horse and the lack of easy communications between the Bellewstown racing course and off-course bookmakers, Curley made a profit of over IR£300,000 (>€1.7m adjusted for inflation) - one of the largest betting coups in Irish history.
The coup
Yellow Sam was a "slow but steady" horse bought by Curley and was given his name from his father's nickname at the races. Curley instructed the horse's trainer, Liam Brennan, to train Yellow Sam specifically for the somewhat obscure annual National Hunt race at Bellewstown, featuring mostly amateur jockeys. To ensure that the horse would run at least once with a much lighter handicap than would normally be the case, Curley first ran the horse in a series of races on other tracks in unfavourable conditions.
Curley spent weeks developing the plan and putting people in place. On the day of the race, Yellow Sam's starting price was 20-1, but if large sums of money were being placed on the horse, that figure would drop quickly, drastically reducing the coup's potential take. It was for this reason that Yellow Sam was to race at Bellewstown specifically, as the track was serviced by just one public telephone and had no private lines at all – making it uniquely possible to disrupt communications to the course bookies who determined the starting prices for the participants.
Dozens of Curley's friends, acquaintances, and paid accomplices stood in bookkeepers across the country with between £50 and £300 and sealed instructions to be opened upon receiving a call. None of the accomplices knew beforehand which horse had been prepared, or in which race it was to run. Curley called six or seven of his people at 2.50pm, ten minutes before the race was to start, and instructed them to each call ten to twenty others. In all, Curley invested just over £15,000, his entire savings, in the gamble. Twenty-five minutes before the race was about to start, and fifteen minutes before the bets were to be placed, Benny O'Hanlon, a friend of Curley's in on the plot, walked into the telephone booth and pretended to place a call to a dying aunt in a non-existent hospital. His act was convincing, as the queue behind him waiting to use the telephone sympathetically allowed him to continue talking for half an hour, while off-course bookies desperately trying to lay off their liabilities struggled in vain to contact their counterparts on the course.
Curley had already built up something of a reputation during his years as a professional gambler, and knew that his presence at the course was likely to cause concern amongst the bookies, and possibly give away the scam before the off. Still, with so much at stake he wanted to see the race first-hand, so he crept into the centre of the course and watched the race concealed in a thicket of gorse. The gamble succeeded, with Yellow Sam winning the 13-hurdle race by two and a half lengths. Since nothing about the coup had been illegal, the bookkeepers were forced to pay out the full IR£300,000 (>€1.7m adjusted for inflation). They did, however, pay out the winnings in single notes, filling 108 bags.
Aftermath
The coup made Barney Curley infamous throughout Ireland and the United Kingdom, and made headlines in many Irish and British national newspapers and television reports. To this day, it continues to be listed as one of the greatest betting scams of all time. Curley invested his earnings in a stable of horses which he continued to have trained for specific gambles, and in the purchase of Middleton House, a mansion in Mullingar, County Westmeath – for which he later ran a raffle of dubious legality, earning him over £1m.
Irish bookkeepers amended their rulebook following the coup to require that bets of over £100 be placed at least half an hour before the start of the race. Bellewstown Race Course itself played up the coup in later years, and in 2005 ran the "Seamus Murphy Yellow Sam 30th Anniversary Hurdle", inviting Barney Curley and Liam Brennan to observe the celebrations.
Yellow Sam continued to run in other races, and in his autobiography, Curley reported having earned a further £700,000 in bets on the horse before it was retired.
Best Bets of the Day!!
3.10 nmkt JJ THE JET PLANE - 3rd
1pt e/w @ 9/1
2.50 asc IMBONGI
3.30 ches BORDERLESCOTT
3.45 york QUAI DORSAY
3 x 1pt e/w dbls
BE LUCKY!!
Friday, July 10, 2009
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Best Bets of the Day!!
3.15 RIP VAN WINKLE
1pt e/w @ 6/1 - 2nd
Still convinced this will win a Gp1
Something to think about in the future - Exacta with fav SEE THE STARS paid 4.20, a more profitable saver than betting e/w - mmm!!
Pont - watch out for forecast rain and any change in going
2.30 BUBBLEAS
4.00 JEER
1pt e/w dbl
5.00 GIBB RIVER - 2pts win @ 7/4
BE LUCKY!!
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Best Bets of the Day!!
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Best Bets of the Day!!
VENUS WILLIAMS to win Wimbledon singles title
5pts @ 3/1
For those who followed me in on Venus Williams to win Wimbledon and who wish to protect their stake,
LAY VENUS WILLIAMS 6 pts @ 1.63 on B/Fair.
This will result in a profit of 11.22 pts if Venus wins or a profit of 1pt if she loses.
3.15 RIP VAN WINKLE
1pt e/w @ 6/1
I think this horse is rated a lot better than he has shown so far, and Aiden O'Brien likes to win this race.
BE LUCKY!!
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