February 21st

Time seemed to be really dragging on, as we reached 3 weeks to go until Cheltenham. The mundanity of work a boring inconvenience to what really matters in life. You should never wish your life away, but I was wishing these 3 weeks to pass as quickly as possible, until the best racing of the year and nearly a week and a half off boring work.

It was a decent Friday to start the weekend with Horsetrader after a poor run bouncing back to form with 2 winners, Hamelin at 14/1 and Willoughby Hedge at 8/1.

The weekend was pretty good, with Roger Bush and his West Country Racing service having some spectacular results, including a massive gamble landed on Arden Denis (4/1 into 2/1) on Saturday, and on Monday with Midnight Request (13/2) and Lord Ballim (11/2) landing me a significant double as well as the singles. Other wins included Vieux Lion Rouge for Betalchemist, and a lovely 10/1 winner  Zac Brown for Northern Monkey. Northern Monkey also recommended a double of Zac Brown and On the Fringe for the Cheltenham Foxhunters, which means that there is now a significant bet running onto the McManus owned animal. I also had 2 very close seconds with Flintham and Joe Farrell, but all in all a very good weekend and start to the week. The Cheltenham ante post portfolio is also looking half decent at this time, but not something to take for granted until some of them actually win.

I’ve also started following Ciaran Meagher, the new golf tipster used by the Paul Jones service, and he added significantly to the profits with a strong bet on the easy winner of the Genesis Golf, Dustin Johnson at 10/1, and a winning bet on Noh to be top Korean at 7/2. Added to his tip on Matsuyma to win the Phoenix, it’s a very promising start by this new tipster.

I am going to try and keep things relatively quiet this week, but there should be the golf again this week, and there is a reasonable weekend of racing to look forward to including the Eider and the Bet bright Chase.

Anyway, only 3 weeks to Cheltenham.....

The Weekend - 12th February

Mixed bag this weekend, with a strange set of races. At Newbury, there were a few races with few runners, and the Betfair Hurdle, which was the main focus of the week.

It wasn't a great weekend, but it wasn't too bad either. My highlight was Flying Angel who won at an early price of 8/1 for Horse Trader, whilst the big race yielded decent each way from Song Light, and Bet Alchemist tipped the winner Ballyandy up at 4/1.

The Sunday was good, Matt Tombs tipped Disko, who jumped like a buck to win the big novice chase in Ireland, and Northern Monkey had the first two in the staying handicap hurdle at Exeter with Impulsive Star and Rocklander. There was also a nice winner for Bet Alchemist with Mega Fortune at an early 11/2 in the juvenile hurlde.

All in all, a steady weekend but nothing special.

What's happened...

Hello, its been another long break since I have last posted, it was probably before the start of the jumps season.

Its been a mixed time, before Xmas things were very good with some superb results from all tipsters, but in 2017 it hasn't been so good, with a mixture of bad luck and tipsters having some dreadful runs of form. On a positive, I've managed to keep records and I've a decent set of ante post bets for Cheltenham.

Its only about 4 weeks to Cheltenham and I'll be looking to blog all the way to the festival including the festival its self. I've kept some records during the early part of the jumps season but will be looking to start a fresh from now and including Cheltenham, just for the blog.

The tipsters I am using are:

Tipping Legends
Ben Linfoot;
Northern Monkey;
Matt Tombs;
The Value Bettor;
Bet Alchemist
Paul Jones.

Its is my intention to just use the above, with the possibility of a couple of additions for the Cheltenham festival.

Ok, I'll be back with a review of the Newbury festival early next week.