Reality



todays bets:

Late bets last night + £3

1.35 Suntrap £15 - lost - £15

1.55 Kumbeshar £15 e/w - placed + £1.88

1.55 Mr Muddle £3 e/w - lost - £6

2.10 Arctic Lynx £40 - lost - £40

2.15 Reindeer Dippin £30 - won9/2 + £135

3.10 Hitchens £40 - lost - £40

3.15 Giles Cross £25 e/w - placed + £6.25

3.35 Celtus £40 - lost - £40

4.10 Rollwiththepunches £15 e/w - lost - £30

4.45 Cruchain £20 e/w - lost - £40

5.00 The Tracey Shuffle - £27 - won2.5bf + £38

5.15 Tour D'argent £30 - lost - £30

today - £56.87                     total + £561.35                      bank + £1561.35

A very busy day, a very indifferent day, winners, placed bets and lots of losers was the order of the day.

A couple of small bets last night on the exchanges resulted in a minor profit of three quid, still better than losing, Suntrap was backed off the boards, i was on at sixes and it ended up less than half that so a good run was expected, but a terrible run started off the day, then the 1.55 was a split bet race which the bigger bet hung on for a place, Arctic Lynx was another heavily backed satchel filler, who the jockey decided to keep to the slowest part of the course up the inside and never looked liked winning.

Reindeer Dippin was prominent and held on well to win when the challenger was given a poor ride and probably should have won, Hitchens was another popular runner who disappointed badly to finish unplaced after running an extra furlong around the outside, Giles Cross was prominent all the way and in a two horse war up the home straight finished second with both desperately tired and the winner being well ridden next to the rails, Celtus went out like a light when push came to shove, Rollwiththepunches was soon on the ropes when the pace quickened.

Cruchain made a jumping error and was struggling after never landing a blow, the two bumper races saw The Tracey Shuffle run on well for a much needed winner and my final bet Tour D'argent which would have seen me end the day in profit was less popular than a fart in a lift and i suppose ran decent enough finishing second.

A hard day for winners with heavy ground, three a/w runners all hammered in the betting and all beaten, a marathon runner finishing second and a bumper runner finishing second to round off a poor day.