This Week

As I alluded to in my previous post, with the exception of the Golf, I am taking this week off punting. I'll be resuming for next weeks big Haydock card. I've found in the past that after a great couple of weeks I then suffer a downturn , and learning from previous mistakes that isn't going to happen this time.


My Golf bets are as follows:


Italian Open


Lima e/w @ 250/1
Heath e/w @ 150/1
Ed Molinari @ 22/1


Barclays


Mickelson e/w @ 28/1
Speith e/w @ 33/1
Schwartzel e/w @ 50/1
Noh e/w @150/1
Cabrera e/w @ 125/1


I'll be back next week with an update.


Have a good one


Steve

The Weekend

The Weekend

 

Had a bit of an issue with the website and hence I haven’t updated the blog for a few days. I’ve also decided to stop doing the precise details of my staking, although I will from time to time let you know how my quest is going with a rough idea of my monetary gains/losses. I’ll keep the blog as more of an informal/entertainment thing rather than detailing every single bet and stake.

 

Suffice to say, the weekend just gone was a roaring success with some fabulous winnings, which came as welcome relief after a less than great days 2 and 3 at York. Day 2 at York was a small loser on a day with few bets, and day 3 (The Friday) was only saved from complete disaster by a 7/1 winner from Tipping Legends in the evening racing. I’d actually decided to give Saturdays racing a miss until Swivel came from last to first to save my bacon, never was a man so relieved.

 

On Saturday Ben Linfoot once again produced the goods as he tipped up both the first Mutual Regards at 20/1 and second Van Percy at 14/1. I usually and in this case backed both each way, so it was a monster result for me. Ben also tipped Kashmiri Sunset who won the each way money at 20/1 by staying on well for fourth. 

 

On Sunday there were more winnings to come as Ben Coley at last managed to land a golf winner as Hunter Mahan came storming through to win the Barclays golf at 50/1. To be honest, after the previous days bonanza I was quite relaxed about this winner, just kind of goes to show that to have the right sort of punting attitude I need to have regular big winners. This was in sharp contrast to Fridays rollercoaster.

 

The week ahead looks pretty quiet, given the Hunters win, I’ll follow this week’s sportinglife.com golf tips, but the racing looks relative mediocre, so I wouldn’t anticipate a great deal of action. I will update later in the week, and let you know how things have gone on.

 

Steve

York Day 1

The first day of the York festival, and it was as predicted a busy day, with 3 bets from the Sporting life's Ben Linfoot, a couple of my own bets, and the Tipping Legends had a few bets as well. I'll post the bets below, and update with thoughts as the week goes on. What a fantastic start though as BL continued his great run with a 20/1 winner in the first at York as Blaine produced an escape act to fly home in the first race. That means I surely won't be losing money today and hopefully another winner will show my a great profit on the day. I just seem to have done really well in the big race meetings this year, just failing with the midweek dross. Fingers crossed for another good one tomorrow


Ben Linfoot – Sporting Life
£25 e/w Bogart 15/1 = -£50
£25 e/w Blaine 20/1 = +£560
£25e/w Totalise 14/1 = -£50

Own

£35 e/w Growl 6/1 = -£70
£35 e/w Felix Leiter 5/1 = +£160

Tipping Legends

£30 e/w Sir Morgan 33/1 = -£60
£30 e/w Entihaa 9/2 = -£6
£60 win Giovani Jack 9/4 =+£135
£15 e/w Ujigar 8/1 = -£30


Total invested = £500 Returns = £1070
Profit on the day =£570
Total blog profit =£1180

Tuesday 19th August 2014

Crazily busy at work this work, and todays a busy punting day as well, and that's before the storm of York which starts on Wednesday. Exciting and hopefully profitable times, although I do feel a bit under pressure. Today we've got some bets on the weeks golf. I was going to back the Scottish Football bets but I've decided to give football a miss for a while until I have monitored the results for a bit longer From Wednesday onwards its likely to be mayhem.


Here are the bets;


Barclays Golf Bets (Ben Coley) = £150
£20 e/w Snedeker 35/1 =
£15 e/w Simpson 55/1 =
£10 e/w Delaet 70/1 =
£15 e/w Westwood 66/1 =
£15 e/w Mahan 501/1 =


Czech Golf (Johns) = £130
£60 win Luiten 14/1 =
£20 e/w Fisher 28/1 =
£10 e/w Webster 66/1 =
£15 e/w Kalberg 50/1 =

Monday

 

Sunday

 

Saturday provided to be a fantastic day of punting, with the highlight being the win of Outdo in the big race at Ripon. As I mentioned I watched the racing later on, so as to take the emotion out of my punting, and it certainly provided to be a great end to the day. The Scottish Football Bets also went very well with 3 out of 4 winners. The Asian Handicaps were continuing to look good as well.

 

Sunday was a much quieter day, with only the one bet from Tipping Legends, which alas got going too late and could only finish second. The golf was a little disappointing, with players flattering to deceive especially in the Wyndham, although places for Pepperhill and Simpson meant there were minimal losses overall.

 

Tipping Legends

£45 win Precision Strike (100/30) = -£45

 

Wyndham Golf (Ben Coley) =  -£75

 

Denmark Golf (Johns) = +£34

 

Monday

 

Always a hard one making it into work on a Monday morning after a heavy weekend, but it had been successful, with good winnings and a win by the mighty Featherstone Rovers in a vital match in the chase for the £450k prize money for finishing second in the league.

 

This week looked like it could be quite busy, with the big York meeting starting on Wednesday, culminating with the Ebor on the Saturday. Not sure that else there would be doing, but the key this week would be to keep disciplined and make sure I don’t waste any of my limited betting bank on stupid ill thought out bets.

 

Looking at my figures at the current time from the start of the blog my profits are +£610

 

The Weekend

Friday

 

Hurrah it was the start of the weekend, and although there were no actual bets on the day it was a busy one for placing advanced bets for Saturdays early priced racing.  There was one bet of my own, picked up from the Sporting Life weekender as well as 4 bets from Ben Linfoot’s value bets column from the Sporting Life website.  In order to make the best prices I ended up putting these on in the Crown, Cheadle as a started the weekend with a couple of well earned pints.

 

Ben Linfoot

 

£17.5 e/w Bondesire (15/1) = -£35

£12.5e/w Polski Max (16/1) =+£75

£35e/w Tatilsu (11/1) = +£71.25

£30 win Plazon (15/2) = -£30

 

Total = +£81.25

 

Own/Weekender

 

£30e/w Outdo (11/1) = +£412.50

 

Saturday

 

I was feeling a little the worse for wear on Saturday morning, and unusually for me didn’t wake until 9.30 am, although we did get up at 6am for a rehydrating coffee and to feed the greyhound. Fortunately I didn’t have much to do on the day, except watching the first United match of the season and dragging myself into Manchester  for a few early evening beers. It wasn’t really that busy on Saturday itself with only a couple of additional bets on the horses, one from Nick Mordin and just the one bet today from Tipping Legends. I am also following the Scottish football bets, and there were 4 bets from this service. I was still monitoring the Asian handicap football service which was showing some encouraging early signs. To maintain my new professional approach I’d decided not to follow any of the bets live, preferring to catch up with results in the evening.

 

Nick Mordin

 

£20e/w Dandino (7/2) = -£10

 

Tipping Legends

 

£35e/w Camborn (12/1) = -£70

 

Scottish Football Bets

 

£40 Queen of the South(Evens) = +£40

£40 Raith(Evens) = +£40

£40 Elgin(Evens)= -£40

£40 Peterhead(Evens) = +£40

 

Total = +£80

 

 

 

Day 3

A pretty busy day today with a few small bets from Tipping Legends and a fancy of my own at Salisbury. The golf also starts, so fingers crossed for a decent start for my selections. I am also currently trialling Asian Handicap football service, but just paper trading at the moment as the majority of bets are in obscure leagues and its quite hard to actually get the bets on.


My horse for today was Captain Cat, a horse that did me a huge favour when winning in the all weather championships. The trainer Roger Charlton, has kept this one back for a good opportunity, and although up in class today in a Group 3.


Todays bets;


Mine - Captain Cat £20e/w @ 11/2 = +£137.50


Tipping Legends


5.05 Sal - Norse Star - £15 win  @16/1 = -£15

7.25 Chep - Ivanhoe - £15 e/w @ 5/1 = -£30

 Our Folly £15 e/w @ 7/1 = -£30

7.55 Che - Hopigetlucky - £15 win @ 20/1 = NR

4.10 Bev - Waterclock -£15 e/w @ 10/1 = -£30
 Kirkman - £15 win @ 5/2 = -£15


Small profit of £17.50 on the day, not much but better than a loss.