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Today's Crucial FormChecker Statistics
For the last eight meetings, FormChecker has provided.....
57% of winners at Fontwell have been on the FormChecker tipsheet (+41% of placed horses).
61% of winners at Worcester have been on the FormChecker tipsheet (+41% of placed horses).
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These are based on %winners and placed horses featured on FormChecker Tip Sheets. They are based on the last eight meetings at the track (updated every Monday morning):
GARGANTUAN fails through the day, triumphs at night
So after getting a biggy on Thursday it was back to short priced winners for the day. Lingfield was a tricky card and it turned out that way in the end. I really did struggle in the end to gauge most of the races and it became a total write off in my eyes. Real strange days racing all round.
Then to Kempton on the night where I had 5 winners all prices were very short though as I've said before I am not keen on selecting these short priced horses but If they are going to win my hands are tied. It's unusual that I didn’t hit any big priced places or winners. But I’m back today to put that right.
In recent blogs I've started the meetings really slow; the first few races I haven't had anything better than a 2nd. I hoping to change this today and get off to a flyer.
I read the Racing Post website last week and the Pricewise guys were gloating that they tipped Bivouac to win at 7/2 at Southwell (as did I) very well done guys (you are my heroes hahaha): that really grated. Try tipping two 11/1 winners boys then you can gloat chaps hahaha, (I am not bitter or anything that they are doing that for their livelihood haha) RANT OVER.
Well back to today and we start off where we finished last night at Kempton. If I can nail 5 winners again that will do me very nicely and the first 3 races are on the box to watch as well, and then it's up to the Midlands for a night meeting at Wolves.
Again my BIG FANCIES are in the selections below in capitals. I've put all my eggs in one basket at Kempton: risky business.
Hope you guys have a great weekend's betting and hope that we bring back the big priced winners.
GARGANTUAN grabs punters another biggy as promised......
Now I did promise another big priced winner by the end of the week but to do it within a day, well what can I say it's the way the game goes (avec smug grin).
The evening couldn’t have started off any worse: 2nd in the first and then not even a place in the 2nd, but I was glad I got these two races out of the way the hardest two races to gauge on the whole card. Then to be fair the 3rd race didn’t go to plan either as Janet’s Pearl got another second to her name and then the 4th race we won’t talk about due to a non runner and a poor fav hahahaha.
Then the action starts (it took a while to warm up, but once warm it got hot) Straight forecast in the next where Malice + Mischief went very well, ran clear to score with Daas Rite staying on in the closing stages to take 2nd. How my BIG FANCY Medicean Man didn’t win I don’t know nicked on the line with Celtic Sultan bagging 3rd at a good 25/1 (I was gutted it should have won doing kart wheels).
Then up stands Malcheek to the sand, with my win tip Golden Shaheen fluffing the start and then Malcheek going out to the front I feared the worst. But then to see Malcheek still going sweetly into the final turn I really couldn’t see anything beating it and that was the case with a great ride from the Kestrel Dave Allan. Golden shaheen made some good late head way to finish 3rd.
Then in the last the combo of Ollie Pears and Barry McHugh came up trumps (it won't be the first time it won't be the last). Pattern Mark making a late surge in a blanket finish stuck his neck out to win with Tres Froide unlucky not to pick off a place.
So enough gloating and on with today, two meetings one at Kempton again and the other is at where it all began; yes it's Lingfield. The Lingfield card looks a real competitive card but here's to hoping it’s the same result as last time: a Gargantuan massacre.
Again my BIG FANCY horse's have been highlighted in the below selections.
Hope everyone is enjoying following the Gargantuan this week as much as I am (of course we are - The Chancellor)
GARGANTUAN produces a mixed bag at kempton........
It was like mixing pleasure with pain the racing at Kempton yesterday evening. A couple of winners a couple of places nothing to write home about. It wasn't a total blank card as there were 3 winners but the consistancy wasn't there, one minute I'm trying to pull the T.V of the wall as 2nd at 11/4 is no good to no one, then the next thing im trying to re-attach it to watch the 4/1 winner selected by the Gargantuan to romp home.
Hopefully there won't be another one of those days for a while. I don't think the nerves or the grey hairs could take much more (and I don't need anymore grey hairs, there already starting to call me badger - no comment from the greying Chancellor either!).
So onto today and we are back at Wolverhampton (not Lingfield as I mistakenly quoted) and there's an action packed card waiting for us to tear into. There are a lot of races with big fields today and the key at Wolverhampton is to get out quick and get an early postion before they get to those tight corners so there will be some real hustle and bustle going on for a Thursday evening ( just what we like ).
I've had a chat to a couple of the Gargantuan followers and they would like me to state, out of the selections which are the horses I really fancy to hit the winning line first. So for the first time in my blogging history I am going to select One WIN FANCY and One PLACE FANCY for the day's racing ( just to put my Head on the chopping block a little bit more). In for a penny if for a pound I say.
So my fancy horses will be in block capitals on the below selections guys; enjoy.
Hope I can keep them winners coming for you and hopefully get you guys another biggy before the end of the week.
GARGANTUAN comes up with the goods at Southwell..........
I remember when I first started with The Chancellor; I told him I can get him a big priced winner at every All Weather meeting come rain or shine. UnfortunateIy it started off with 4 short priced straight forecasts. We can't have it all I suppose.
But over the last couple of blogs I've hit the big priced bad boys, two 11/1 winners and I'm going to be carrying on pulling out all the stops to keep this going.
Southwell is a tricky course to judge and the same horses tend to pop up everytime there's a meeting at Southwell by the sea. Just want to warn you guys that when the All Weather season starts the same horses that are winning now will be back there when the season starts so be on your toes. When you see me tipping the same horse meeting after meeting at Southwell there's a reason for the madness so just bare with me hahahaha (seriously I know what I'm on about ) he says.
So its back to Kempton today and then I'm back where it all started tomorrow at Lingfield and if the last meeting is owt to go by we could be in for a couple of good days.
Hope everyone is still following the Gargantuan and those who are having happy days (oh, we are - The Chancellor)
GARGANTUAN priced winners all round ...........................
So after Mondays debacle I was going into Tuesday with the attitude of it couldn't get any worse. Thankfully that was the case.
It didn't get off to the greatest of starts in the first race - not even a place and then in the second I got a second but at 13/8 so again not the greatest.
Then the action started in the next 3 races I got 1st and 3rd and then the winner in the last. Brick Red was the one to have returning an 11/1 winner and then in the last the Hannon Hughes combo came to the floor for nice 11/2 winner.
It is the start of a busy All Weather period which will be keeping me on my toes, starting today at Southwell by the sea.
It's quite a tricky card today. I've gone through it in great detail over the bank holiday weekend while spending my winnings from Tuesday night on beer and hot curry.
I'll be back tomorrow with selections for the 8 race card Kempton have put on and then Wednesday at wolverhampton.
Keep checking out my selections and blog and we should have another good couple of days.
3 non-runners, Sirocco Breeze misses the break and still finishes 2nd, Ajjaadd ran out of track as he was flying down the outside (one for next time - defo keep an eye on him as he was a ratings improver too - The Chancellor). I knew going into today it was going to be tricky; oh my days i wtas just that. I think the only positive to take out of today is that it's over haha.
It was reported that there were only 4 oncours-e bookmakers and only a handful punters to take them on. This makes me feel a bit better about the whole day as It wasn't just me that thought it would be a tricky day. The punters stayed at home and so did the Bookies.
The bookies that did turn up on course and also the major high street bookmakers were given a nice supprise when the winner of the 4.20 Wafeira trained by Henry Cecil started the day of at 11/1. Turf TV, providing the opening price of 11/1, they then admitted that the opening price should have been 11/2. Somebodys mistake has cost the bookmakers a little bit of money on a Monday what a shame (It wasn't just me how had a bad day at the office).
Back to today and we are back at Kempton: oh happy days. Just remember there's only one Monday a week thank god.
Lets see how much money I can rake back in for your bank holiday weekend.
GARGANTUAN: Short priced winners, better than Gargantuan short priced losers.
I'm not keen on tipping short priced horses but if they are going to win I suppose it has to be done (I have to agree there Gargantuan - FormChecker does the same - The Chancellor). Had what I thought was an average night at Wolves on Friday. I did hit a few winners but these were pretty short priced; no good to man nor beast.
I was really impressed with one of my selctions on Friday; Captain Loui made all from the front with Neil Callan on board. He really didn't have to do much on him to earn his crust(one to watch next time aswell).
A few of the bigger priced selections really didn't run to form. The big priced winners have eluded me over the last two meetings but I'm pretty sure there will be a couple round the corner.
Right onto Monday. I remember a while back a (not to be named) trainer saying to me that the all weather racing in this country is very uncompetitive. On a certain level I have to agree but as I was going through the card at Kempton for a Monday afternoon I really did struggle with selections in a couple of races. Some really good horses on show and I have to give credit to Kempton racecourse for putting on a cracking and competitive card on a Monday afternoon.
Quite a lot of so called big guns out on show at Kempton today even our Liz (the Queen) has one of her string racing.
So let's get off to a great start to the week by backing the winners at Kempton. This week is the calm before the storm as after this week it's all go with the all weather meetings. I'll be able to spend my bank holiday weekend on Scarborough beach with my Racing Post and the pollution picking out winners ahh bliss.
Hope everyone has a cracking week.
Happy betting Guys and Gals and lets hope my selections can get you some extra spends for the bank holiday weekend.
Finally, all Chancellor-sponsored races have produced subsequent winners as Rudinero did the business at Newton Abbot today (finished second in the Follow Summer Jumping with www.chancelloroftheformchecker.co.uk Novices' Handicap Chase).
I'm quite excited because Calon Crwbin who won the www.chancelloroftheformchecker.co.uk Pepe Rufino Memorial Maiden Hurdle is running tomorrow at Newton Abbot in a Class 2 Handicap Hurdle! Calon Crwbin beat Bon Spiel into third in the Pepe Rufino race and Bon Spiel franked the form by finishing 2nd the other evening at Fontwell. Good luck to connections who have now won two Chancellor-sponsored races!
So, trainers take note; horses that run in Chancellor-sponsored races always do well subsequently!!
Finally got back to Fontwell to see a glorious new grandstand and weather to match! After over two months away it was great to be back. There was a nice amount of peoplpe on the raceday tour to talk about FormChecker, HotShots and Gargantuan and then I have to immensely thank Chris Copsey for giving his place up on the Tipping Forum as there had been a mix up. Therefore, I did the Forum with Tommo and a great commentator in Alan Howes. During the Forum highlighted most of the selections on FormChecker but did mention Ashmolian as a HotShot and Morenito in one of the chases in addition - I'd been looking at the Morenito race when at the tack and preferred him in the end (sorry for those who were not there and only had the FormChecker Tip Sheet as he did won at 10/1!!).
It was nice to see Penyfan Dawn courageously battle on once headed in the first after giving 8lbs to the eventual winner Brett Vale. Shinnecock Bay hit the odd fence going round in the second and clouted the last so was booked for second place behind Courella in the second. Finally hit a winner in Corso Palladio who ran out a ready winner in the third (keep an eye on this one as it was quite impressive) with the game Ashmolian grabbing third under Gemma Gracey-Davison. A brilliant 1-2-3 in the 655 saw Kijivu lead from the front and never get headed (finally it wins after many times being highlighted by FormChecer) - you could just sense it was going to win from the start as it was confidently written. Rock Me got second with Havenstone battling on for third. In the 730 I had no idea why Lords Bridge was so short afgter falling and unseating the last two times over regulation fences. Well, he hit a few going round and eas eventually pulled up after getting further and further behind at the start of the final circuit. It was nice to see Morenito spring back to some form as this is his distance and FormChecker got the second in Winning Show anyway so a nice 10/1 winner with an 8/1 placed. In the last it was a total shock when Tegan Lee won easily at 25/1 after a string of poor efforts. Our selections managed second and third with I Can Run Can You and Alrafid chasing home the winner. I do hope Tootie Too is ok this morning as she took a heavy fall and was then knocked over - she appeared ok though.
So, another lovely fixture at Fontwell and I hope to be back on the 5th September to do the Tour and Tipping again! If you ever get a chance come along to the only figure of 8 chase track in the UK - you'll have a great experience.
Thanks again to Chris Copsey and to Mandy Austen who ensures The Chancellor gets as much coverage as possible! Onwards and upwards still....
Gargantuanis going to have a second crack of the Wolves whip
Monday started off like a house on fire, 2nd at 14/1 and then a first.Unfortunately thewinnerhad been lumped on left right and centre and went off at a terrible price for punters.
Then after thatagain plenty of near misses which doesn’t do theconfidence the world ofgood. The only comfort is that there or thereabouts and I can see a Lingfieldmassacre on the horizon very soon.
I’ve been on me sick bed for the last couple of days hence why the blogs haven’t been updated. I had the killer bug Man flu,I’m prettysurprised Iwasn’t out for longer ( Man flu is standard one week of work ) but I’vemanned up and drunk my own body weight in lemsip and I’m back to take you through theWolverhamptoncard for today.
As you all know there has been some great racing at my local track York this week (a 2 minute walk away is way toconvenient) so while everyone is focused on the big guns at York we cansneak through the back door atWolverhampton and take advantage of some big pricedwinners.
I will be tipping and blogging every allweathermeeting from now on as long as the Man flu is kept at bay.
Good luck to everyone and let’s hope for a good day.
GARGANTUAN's good run, runs out on Friday the 13th.
Ok there were a couple of places and a winner, but there was also a few hard luck stories to go with the misery.
How Defector didn't win his race was beyond me he; went clear only to be shot down on the line. Palio Square was hampered on the final turn and was last on the straight he made good ground up to finish 4th definitely one for next time.
I'm not going dwell on it to much so onward and upward and there is a nice little card at Wolverhampton to get my teeth into for Monday.
There's quite a few so called big named jockeys and trainers down at Wolverhampton for Monday so it's made selections a little easier.
After today's selections I will be starting to cover every All Weather meeting from here on in, so the Blog will be updated with the selections every morning of these meetings.
Hope everyone is following the Chancellor at the moment he is bang on form over the jumps and a few on the flat. I'm trying to convert him to follow the flat but he's proving a tough cookie to crack (I'll never be cracked!!! - The Chancellor). If he keeps backing them winners on the flat I am sure he will come round.
Hope every one has a good start to the week today and happy betting.
Gargantuan has seconds coming out of his ears; not a good look .........
After Friday's clean up mission at Lingfield going to plan, I took my attention to the Southwell card for Monday knowing anything short of what happened on Friday would be a let down but also it would be the inevitable.
Started off well with my first Choice been a non runner and then getting the wrong Midgley horse to place so things could only get better. After that it was a barrage of 2nd places with only one straight forecast been hit and then a 3rdplace in the last. On the lgass half full side of things I did hit Elusive Fame into 2nd at 33/1 which was a nice touch if anyone had backed it.
In between Monday and Friday’s selections I have been racing myself over in sunny Beverley as a horse I own shares in was racing. Unfortunately with us been drawn in stall one ( In the Car Park ) over 5 furlongs we never had a chance, once we had caught up with the pack the bird had already flown. What cushioned the blow was the fact it was Beverley’s most busiest day of the season ( Ladies day ) some of East Yorkshires finest females were out in full bloom which was great to see ..... ( I hope the girlfriend doesn’t read this, she was wondering why she wasn’t invited this will certainly answer her question ).
So after Monday's second place bonanza it's onward and back on the upward curve at Kempton. Kempton is similar to Lingfield if you have a decent position on that final bend and a clear run you have no excuses. I’m pretty confident that my selections will be there with a clear run come that final turn ( jockeys of selections please take note). Again there are plenty of horses racing at Kempton that are bringing their poor turf form back to the All weather in the search of that elusive win. This is the sort of thing the Gargantuan likes to expose.
Just remember we're gearing up for when the all weather starts in winter and by then we should be up and running with plenty of winners under the belt.
I’ve now done a card at Lingfield, Southwell and now Kempton. The next port of call will be a lovely little place in the Midlands called Wolverhampton. You can’t beat a night meeting at Wolverhampton under the floodlights...... Honestly!!
Keep the faith guys and let’s hope Friday 13th turns out not to be to unlucky for us.
Gargantaun AllWeather Racing´s Second Blog is here! I am sooo confident about this that I am posting this whilst on a little holiday in Spain.....
GARGANTUAN Winners on Tap,
GARGANTUAN pulls out the good stuff on his opening day ,
Well I didn't think I'd be grinning this much while writing my second blog.
Now I am not one to blow my own trumpet, but for this blog I am going to have to :0).
No I am not that smug but honestly it was a great start and days like that you have to embrace in the tipping game due to the fact they don´t happen all the time.
6 winners from 8 and 4 seconds plus 3 straight forecasts is good going and I'm hoping to keep this going today at Southwell. The reason I like tipping on the all weather is because it has potentional to be a gold mine for punters as its not as competitive as flat turf racing. A lot of horses bring their bad turf form back to the all weather every year and take advantage by winning a race at a very decent price for their trainers. Prime example was Hart of Gold on Friday at Lingfield as recent form was terrible but it was all turf form ( I was very keen on this each way tip so keen I even tipped it to the lads at work and trust me there a hard bunch to please so you have to be on top of your game). If you went on his all weather form he would not of been 10/1 in the morning. I know he only finished 2nd and didn´t win but this was due to the fact the Fav was very strong ( Fav was tipped to win).
These are the kind of things Gargantuan pulls out for his customers and offers them some good priced winners and places. I select my horses once the 48hr declerations have been made so no horse is selected just because its a favourite or 2nd favourite. These selections are made way before any prices have been given.
Once my selections went live last Friday I was very excited and also quite nervous at the same time. There was no pressure but with been given this oppotunity I wanted to prove myself. I know one swallow doesnt make a summer ( I think thats the right saying) but I will kick on and continue this form to give yourselves the best chance possible to bash those bookies.
I hope last Friday has pumped some confidence into you guys and I hope you take today´s selections on board. After last Friday ask yourself can you afford not to.
Good luck today guys and remember Winners are Grinners people.
I give great pleasure in introducing a fresh new face to Chancellor of the FormChecker: Gargantuan AllWeather Tipping.
Hello guys and gals and welcome to Gargantuan AllWeather Tipping Service.
First of all I would like to ask you all to bear with me as this is my first blog and I am new to the blogging game. Second of all I would like to thank the man himself The Chancellor for giving me this opportunity to join forces and to take on the bookies together.
Right that’s the thank yous and blog excuses out of the way on with business. What The Chancellor and I have planned to do is take over the world, well the racing world that is. The plan of action is to attack the all weather; go in all guns blazing and get us and you a portion of those big priced winners you see on the all weather week in week out. There will be selections made on various all weather meetings from now until the end of the flat season then we plan to tip horses through the winter on the all weather. We will bring you great selections at great prices and do all the ground work for you. All you have to do is back the horses - simple as that (you have to buy a ticket if you want to win the raffle people).
With this been the first blog I thought I'll give you a bit of infomation about myself so here's a little bit. I've been into racing for about 10 years. I have shares in 3 horses - two on the flat and one over the jumps. I'm also an Ex professional rugby league player. I love going to the races as an owner and bookie bashing is my favourite hobby.
Well there’s the first blog done and dusted. In my second blog I will explain a bit more about why we are hitting the all weather racing and our thinking behind etc. Hope all Gargantuan fans will be happy with my service (I'm sure you will). I will be updating this blog every other day and remember people Winners and grinners.
Well, as many of you know, I only started being The Chancellor last September (2009). So much has happened to me since I left my previous job which I had kinda had for 15 years. But what of my background?
Brought up in Wigan to a totally Liverpudlian heritage, I left school with eight GCSEs and started on my quest to study Psychology. After three years at College I came out with six A-levels (don't ask!) I left for Southampton to read Psychology at University. After graduating I started a PhD in Anthrozoology but logistics and red-tape meant I never managed to complete. Alongside studying for the PhD I got employed being a teacher (something I had never ever considered) at a place called Totton College in 1995. After being very part-time then sort of part-time then full-time then Head of Psychology I left in the Summer of 2009. I'd had enough of the constant bureaucracy and I reckoned that after five years developing FormChecker and it working it was time to move on.
I did enjoy my teaching career which culminated in creating the only Psychology Academy in the United Kingdom. Pity OFSTED couldn't give two hoots and how it made other departments jealous and horrid was unreal. Exit stage left after those experiences - but I do have some amazing memories from my staff and my funny & fantastic students!! One in particular was creating and running the only UK A-Level in UFO Studies and Alien Abduction which also led me to co-create and run the European Journal of UFO and Abduction Studies (won a National Award in Spain!) for many years. One day I might tell you about my hypnosis-abduction sessions I've had - very unreal and haunting.
During this time I got into writing (aim to write some racing books soon) and have had a fair few books published for the GCSE and A-Level Psychology market (soon to have two revision guides for GCSE Psychology published by Psychology Press so look out for them!!) and I have a regular column on Dogs Monthly highlighting recent research into dog behaviour. Alongside this I freelance for teaching resources for Psychology, tutor on an OU course, teach privately AS and GCSE Psychology and I mark lots and lots and lots of national and international examinations (you guessed it; Psychology!). ANd all of this takes second place to FormChecker and Fontwell work. They are my priority now.
My grandfather got me into racing (he was a daily follower) and I used to always get my mum to put a bet on the National for me when too young ;) - then I also learnt that my mum's cousin built the fences for Mrs Topham at Aintree and I was hooked.
In 2004 I embarked on FormChecker and have never looked back.....and there are many years left in me as I'm 'only' 37 years of age. I'll blog again soon about how this was developed next week.
Well I hope that has given you a bit of info about who I am - pretty varied experiences there but horse racing is the one constant in my life and it will always be.....
I've participated in the last three tipping competitions run by The Racing Forum (http://www.theracingforum.co.uk). Still not won one but my finishing positions were.....:
Cheltenham - 2nd placed finish (one tip per race competition)
Aintree - 4th placed finish (one tip per race competition)
Puncchestown/Sandown - 2nd placed finish (three races per day; two selections per race competition).
More than happy with these results and I'll try to enter some the ATR and Sporting Life competitions next year and show the World what The Chancellor is all about!!!!
Well, we did it. We reached 1200+ winenrs in our first 'season' - well I sayseason but we only started on September 24th and there was a significant chunk opf missed racing in December-January time!
The new season starts tomorrow and soon I'll be tidying up the website all set for the Summer Jumps season and giving the flat a crack via ratings.
We had an absolutely fantastic Cheltenham, a grand Aintree and a marvellous season plus if you'd have asked me that all of thsi would have happened (plus working for Fontwell Park) this time last year when I was resigning from my teaching post, I'd have laughed a great deal.
Thank you to all that have followed The Chancellor since September and let's hope I'm here for a rather long time.....
Finally a Fontwell meeting in the glorious sunshine. It really does not get better than that. The Raceday Tour went well and then it was only myself and Chris Copsey doing the Tipping Forum as we could not find Ian Bartlett!!
During the Forum I highlighted the chances of Latin America (let us all down again!) and Whistlejacquet (won quite cosily) in the first. In race two I went for Baren De Doc who decided to try to take the open ditch with him and parted company early on! I focused on Mayberry (won) and Astolibra (2nd) in race 3 (and FormChecker had the third Lucky Score) so another grand tipping effort. Myself and Chris could not fathom out race four and joked that the outsider of the quartet, Siouxme, could win it. She only went and did that!!! In race five I highlighted the chances of Hampton court who was just pipped into second by Days of Pleasure who was a ratings DARK HORSE. For Race 6 I was more than happy to 'big-up' Space Cowboy and No Greater Love but the more I talked about Bid Art the more I liked his chances and so changed my mind to go for that and Space. Well, Bid Art won and Space Cowboy came second and just to ass to it No Greater Love came third. Iwent home before the bumper but wish I'd have stayed as my solid choice Madame Jasmine won at 5/1.
Again, thanks to Graham for driving us to the Fontwell Park, Chris for being a fantastic course presenter and Mandy for all the total and undying support.
I'll be back there on April 30th for an evening meet where we are sponsoring a race in memory of a special man:
The FormChecker Pepe Rufino Memorial Handicap Hurdle will be race 2 on the card.
I cannot thank Fontwell racecourse enough for supporting The Chancellor since we launched. A massive thank you to Mandy Austen who is an eternal supporter and has sorted out me being on the Raceday Tour and the Pre-race Tipping Forum for all of 2010. Tim Peters, the raceday presenter has been absolutely amazing too - giving me tonnes of support at every fixture. And I would never have thought I'd have been doing the Forums with the likes of Tony Ennis, Richard Hoiles and Simon Holt (all so knowledgeable and who I have utter respect for) when I launched back on September 24th 2009. You know when people talk about living the dream.......oh it can happen!!! Thank you to everyone who has made this first season spectacular. And get to Fontwell as much as you can.....brilliant course.
I'm still coming down from my Cheltenham high after all the hard work paid off for myself and my clients! I'm gearing myself up for an assault on Aintree (not sure we'll do as well as Cheltenham but I'll give it a good shot for everyone!). I watched Barizan's race again yesterday in the Triumph and I still get excited watching him run his absolute heart out (if you can watch it - he does battle on once headed). I haven't picked up the courage to watch the Gold Cup as I'm not sure I want to see Kauto Star fall in that way again. It was bad enough first time. I could watch Chief Dan George's victory every day as he ran an absolute corker (and he was 33/1). I also need to re-watch Copper Bleu's victory in the Jewson as literally 5 minutes before the off and with the ground changing I was chatting to a mate on Facebook and told him '...with the ground changing Othermix has a really good chance.' 50/1 he was. Came second!! Actually I'm going to take a whole afternoon off after Aintree and watch all the Cheltenham races as I have them on DVD. Let me admit that I was shaking after Menorah's amazing victory, I cried along with Katie Walsh when she won on Poker De Sivola, I screamed my heart out for Barizan and I cried again after Pigeon Island who I've always loved won the Grand Annual. There said it. And I'm proud to have said it!!! It was my first Cheltenham as a tipster and it's gonna last in the memory forever. What a Festival and what a sport to be involved in
