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BumperD

Sir Pete

BumperD

Barry got a right tune out of guitar Pete there...

hucklebuck

Colonel Sanders wrote: »

Did he accept the request?

Not yet, probably getting dogs abuse for the **** he posts and couldnt take it back.

carpothepunk

Change that thread title to snapchatters anonymous

hucklebuck

Rename the thread Plinth me bollix?

BumperD

Now he's a horse worthy of a thread named after him.

jimjamcos

Feck Golantilla, 'The Last Instalment' is the way to go, with 'Shmokin Mossey Joe $$$' a close second!

BumperD

Smoking Mossey Joe for President.

ft9

Adebayor!!!!!!!!!

jimjamcos

ft9 wrote: »

Adebayor!!!!!!!!!

Hulk Hands

Last Instalment and ballaycasey, twas a good day for the antepost bets. A lot of good angles this year with the NRNB and best odds guaranteed coming in on the 5 races so early

Colonel Sanders

Cillians Return is now technically favourite for the bumper. His best price is shortest of any horse quoted (NB bet365 the only ones quoting him at 7/1). They make Black Hercules their 6/1 favourite but others are as big as 8/1

BumperD

Wouldn't be surprised if Vigil has new colours for his next run. He needs good ground to show his best - could be the one for weld to finally break his cheltenham duck?

jimjamcos

Discussing other bumper horses on the Mr Golantilla thread should result in a strict ban!

BumperD

haha :pac:

Hulk Hands

Colonel Sanders wrote: »

Cillians Return is now technically favourite for the bumper. His best price is shortest of any horse quoted (NB bet365 the only ones quoting him at 7/1). They make Black Hercules their 6/1 favourite but others are as big as 8/1

I'd say Golantilla is very likely to go off fav provided he wins his prep. Obviously only one of the Mullins ones will go, so one will shorten too. Was impressed by Vigil, McNamara rode it like it was a complete machine

kiers47

I see Andy Lynch is heading to Ayr tomorrow for the one ride on a Crawford trained filly in a maiden hurdle.

A bit strange considering crawfords son(or whatever he is to the trainer) is also there and has a few rides on the same card.

She has some average form on the flat when trained for Weld and Crawford is well capable of getting 1 ready. She also gets 17lbs from all the likely dangers.

Will be interesting to see what she opens at. Forecast price 10/1 on the Irish racing app.

** actually he is over for 2 rides riding Mister First in the main race who would also warrant respect and would probably be his main ride.
Presumably the lad of the crawfords can't do 10stone.

***nothing to see here

hawaii501

Thread should be renamed Sir Last Installment for all the people holding crazy 50-1 dockets

Imhof Tank

BumperD wrote: »

Wouldn't be surprised if Vigil has new colours for his next run. He needs good ground to show his best - could be the one for weld to finally break his cheltenham duck?

Weld has had festival winners. Rare Holiday and General Assembly were 2 he trained for Smurfit. Could have been more

BumperD

Ya, I got corrected on the bumper thread!! Found rare holiday, didn't know about the other.

mdwexford

Imhof Tank wrote: »

Weld has had festival winners. Rare Holiday and General Assembly were 2 he trained for Smurfit. Could have been more

Rare Holiday is his only Cheltenham winner as far as I can find.

Colonel Sanders

mdwexford wrote: »

Rare Holiday is his only Cheltenham winner as far as I can find.

+1

Rare Holiday is his one and only

Imhof Tank

Memory playing tricks - I was thinking of General Idea who was beaten a whisker by Arthur Moore's Second Schedule in 93.

Race Result Cheltenham Thu, 18th Mar, 1993
Going - Good to Firm.
CATHCART CHALLENGE CUP CHASE of £35000.00 6-y-o plus
2m. 5f. Chase 1st - £26040.00, 2nd - £7770.00, 3rd - £3710.00, 4th - £1680.00 7 Ran

1st Second Schedual 11-3
(0:30.99 11.20 secs faster on today's going )
Golden Love - Billeragh Girl(Normandy)
SP 6/1
A Maguire



2nd General Idea 11-7

General Assembly (USA) - Idealist(Busted)
SP 5/2fav
B Sheridan

Colonel Sanders

He's had a few placed horses as well as rare Holiday alright

Some of his have been the subject of savage gambles too over the years

BumperD

Safe to say its sums up how hard it is to win at Cheltenham when Weld hasn't bagged a winner in 20 yrs.

UrbanSea

Think there is a good gamble to come Thursday night at Kempton. Horse been running over the wrong trip, down over a stone since September. Finally back to a trip he has won four times over. Will be getting on early :cool:

carpothepunk

Layla Joan, who I put yous onto around Christmas, just got her hattrick up and seems to be well ahead of the assessor still.

NaiveMelodies

Roman Flight Roman Flight Roman Flight (3.50 Muss 2mo)

ft9

Adebayor (6) is now 1/2 to be spurs top league scorer
Soldado (5) is 2nd fav at 7/4

UrbanSea

That must have been the greatest 33/1 shot of all time. My VC was locked at the time I am absolutely bulling would have had a ton on it

UrbanSea

Waiting on a take away to be delivered must be the must agonizing wait one can have.

Colonel Sanders

Decent gamble gathering steam on Dallas Buyers Club to get best film Oscar

Colonel Sanders

Came across this the other day, worth a read

jimjamcos

ft9 wrote: »

Adebayor (6) is now 1/2 to be spurs top league scorer
Soldado (5) is 2nd fav at 7/4

Ade is God!

Here's hoping he gets the ride on Last Instalment!!

UrbanSea

I wonder if I got onto live chat on Victor Chandler and explained my scenario would they still give me the 33/1

NaiveMelodies

jimjamcos wrote: »

Ade is God!

Here's hoping he gets the ride on Last Instalment!!

Hahaha now that would be a sight!

carpothepunk

Golantilla is going to take the ride on Last Intallment and win doing cartwheels.

hucklebuck

Colonel Sanders wrote: »

Came across this the other day, worth a read

I read about the Kelly method and forgot about it.

I had been planning a new strategy for Cheltenham around betting percentage of bank but if I go like the last few Cheltenham I will run into trouble getting what I want on come Thursday morning, only way is probably on betfair but my record with Betfair is terrible.

When I get some time I will go through my bets from last year and see what would have worked best last year.

Anyone else have bogie bookies?

Colonel Sanders

All aboard the Arsenal express, choo choo!

13/10 is too big tonight

Colonel Sanders

Colonel Sanders wrote: »

All aboard the Arsenal express, choo choo!

13/10 is too big tonight

Goals aren't pitched as high as I imagined either.

13/10 is completely wrong, win lose or draw

UrbanSea

Anybody apply for the guards?

carpothepunk

Did you make the top 2k or whatever it is Urban?

UrbanSea

Yeah happy days. Top 5k go through to the next tests

Hulk Hands

Colonel Sanders wrote: »

Goals aren't pitched as high as I imagined either.

13/10 is completely wrong, win lose or draw

Its an interesting dynamic of long term form versus short term form. Arsenal obviously the better team this season. United easily better previously. On talent of the players alone, who is better? United by a mile in attack, Arsenal by a mile in midfield with defense and goalie arguable. Given that they've priced basically every big premiership match up as a base of the home team being 5/4, that would look the right price (I'd personally say 6/5). However add in Arsenal have a 'soft' home advantage, and United have had a ridiculous record over them in recent years, then 13/10 starts to look fine. If I was forced to back one outcome it'd be the draw, then Arsenal in that order. Market looks spot on to me though

NewApproach

Colonel Sanders wrote: »

Goals aren't pitched as high as I imagined either.

13/10 is completely wrong, win lose or draw

It's absolutely bonkers. Also took 1.99 -0.25.

Colonel Sanders

NewApproach wrote: »

It's absolutely bonkers. Also took 1.99 -0.25.

I had another small bet at 2.38 on Smarkets (2% commission)

BumperD

Isn't it ironic. The Yanks send a man to Ireland to sort the parades issue in Ireland. Seems the parades disease must have latched onto the envoy before he boarded his flight for home and has spread to the US st paddys day parades. Maybe we should send an envoy to the US?

Hulk Hands

Use Spurs as a common denominater. Arsenal around 2.04 to beat Spurs at home. That's very comparable to United, given that Arsenal were in better form then and Spurs have been slightly better this season than United. So have Arsenal as a base 2.04 and then factor in the ridiculous record United have over them, and 'reverting to the mean' given that Arsenal have over performed in the past 6 months whereas United have completely underperformed. 13/10 is slightly too big but it's marginal at best

Hulk Hands

7/5 to back now commission free. Couldn't put anyone off that now

Colonel Sanders

29/20 now