Loser

todays bets:

Torres to score first goal - refund + £20

1.30 Painted Tail £20 - lost - £20

2.25 Decider £10 - lost - £10

4.05 Diapason £15e/w - lost - £30

today - £40                         total - £33.61                              bank + £966.39

You know it is a disappointing day when the highlight is getting a stake refunded, the score i had on Torres as first goalscorer yesterday was refunded as he was substituted prior to a goal being scored, a nice brucie bonus to start the day but sadly it was all downhill from there!

The first race of the day brought my first wager, Painted Tail in an a/w bumper was towards the front when the race started but was sadly found lacking and finished well beaten in fifth place.

One thing that i hate is backing two short priced horses to win in the same race, backing two e/w at decent odds i can abide, in the first race at Wolverhampton i was undecided what to back so decided to back the appropriately named Decider, which of course ran awful and the other unbacked fancy won, as both where towards the top of the market there was not a lot of value in backing two horse's or backing e/w, so my Ayrton Senna was lost.

The most annoying thing for punter's is getting a nice e/w bet in an eight horse race then finding out after everybody's bets are placed that predictably one is deemed a non runner and of course my horse finished third so no return! The betting pattern even with the non runner told a story as it was less popular than being stuck in a lift with a flatulant Jehovah witness.

Today's sermon is do not back e/w in eight horse races until the last inch of horse is in the stalls, is it just a coincidence that there was loads of races with seven runners today and a few that had the eighth horse withdrawn? the word skulduggery comes to mine.