Stress

todays bets:

2 x Accumulaters - £40

1.20 Sir Boss £20e/w - placed + £7.50

1.30 Our Father £100 - lost - £100

2.25 Gunna Be A Devil £15e/w - placed + £4.50

2.25 Musical Wedge £10e/w - lost - £20

3.05 Dromore Hill £40e/w - lost - £80

3.40 Yetholm £15e/w - lost - £30

3.40 Oscar Close £10e/w - lost - £20

4.05 Mohi Rahrere £15 - lost - £15

today - £293                    total - £331.57                     bank + £668.43

Total carnage today on what was a very busy day and can only be described as terrible, a day where the gale force winds where clearly having an effect on some horses performance but it was the same for all horses.

The first bet Sir Boss ran on ok between horses to finish third when a stronger jockey may have won, Our Father was cruising in the home straight and it looked like a case of how far but the jockey never went clear instead choosing to sit behind, when the gun was too his head he couldn't quicken and was beaten a length with ten back to the third, i much prefer riders to get clear when cruising but most like to sit and win after the last. That also put pay to my two accumulaters.

Gunna be a devil was well supported and disappointed with only a third place with my other bet being well behind. Dromore Hill was again well supported and with first time blinkers on was sure to give a good account! How wrong i was, he jumped badly the first two and was behind and that was that, out of the race after just two fences, maybe the trainer should have tried him in blinkers before the race.

Yetholm and Oscar Close were poor and Mohi Rahrere put the seal on an awful day with a desperate run. I may be having one more bet at Wolverhampton which will be settled on tomorrows blog.